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33. C. multicostata Mackenzie. Culms rather stout, 3-9 dm. high, slightly 

 roughened beneath head; leaf -blades 2.5-6 mm. wide; spikes about 10, oblong or 

 oblong-ovoid, 8-16 mm. long, 6-8 mm. wide, with 20-30 perigynia; scales ovate, 

 obtuse to acute, reddish-brown with lighter midvein and conspicuous hyaline mar- 

 gins; perigynia appressed, ovate, 3.5-4.5 mm. long, 2-2.25 mm. wide, serrulate to 

 below middle, several nerved on inner face, winged to the rounded base, abruptly 

 contracted into the beak 1 mm. long. 



Type Locality: Bear Valley Dam, San Bernardino Co., California (Parish 

 3609). 



Mountains of Southern California; Sierra Nevada. 



Locs.: Bear Valley Dam, San Bernardino Co., Parish 3609; San Jacinto Mts., Hall 2492; 

 Truckee River, Nevada Co., Davy. 



Refs.: Carex multicostata Mackenzie, Bull. Torr. Club 43: 604 (1917). "C. specifica 

 Bailey" Parish, Bull. S. Cal. Acad, 5: 50 (1906), in small part. "C. /estiva stricla Bailey" Parish, 

 1. c. 53, in small part. 



34. C. subfusca W. Boott. Cespitose, the culms 2-6.5 dm. high, slender but 

 firm, smooth or very nearly so; leaf-blades 1.5-3 mm. wide; head oblong or ovoid, 

 1-2 cm. long, the spikes 4-8, well defined but closely aggregated, ovoid or oblong, 4- 

 10 mm. long, 2.5-4.5 mm. wide, rounded at apex, rounded or somewhat tapering at 

 base, the 8-15 perigynia appressed-ascending; scales ovate, acute, brownish with 

 lighter midvein and inconspicuous hyaline margins; perigynia ovate, 3-3.5 mm. long, 

 1-1.5 mm. wide, plano-convex, thickish, winged to the rounded base, serrulate 

 above, faintly nerved ventrally, contracted into beak Yi length of body or more, the 

 beak flat and serrulate nearly to tip, shallowly bidentate. 



Type Locality: Lake Tahoe (Kellogg) and near Virginia City, Nevada 

 (Bloomer). 



California in the northern mountains and throughout the Sierra Nevada and 

 in the higher southern mountains and in the southern Coast Ranges; extending 

 north into Oregon and east into Arizona. 



Locs.: Summit Camp, Sierra Nevada, Kellogg; Lower Sardine Lake, Sierra Co., Hall & Bab- 

 cock 4487; Tallac and Mrs. Watson's, El Dorado Co., Brainerd; Salmon Creek, Tulare Co., Hall & 

 Babcock 5162 (in part); San Gorgonio Mts., Hall 7617; Alt. San Antonio, Abrams 1933; San Jacinto 

 Alts., Hasse, Reed 2483; Nevada Falls, Bioletti; Bierstadt Peak, Nevada Co., Davy 3211; Weaverville, 

 Trinity Co., Yates 297; Ciiyamaca Mts., Brandegee; San Bernardino Alts., Parish 3261, 3272, 3270, 

 3272a, 2529; Alariposa Co., Congdon; Cuyamaca Lake, Orange Co., Abrams 3876; Tassajara Hot 

 Spgs., Elmer 3133, Dudley; Russian River, Bolander 3876; San Antonio Mts., Hall 1524; Smith Alt., 

 San Diego Co., Stokes; Squaw Valley, Placer Co., L. S. Smith 555; Cow Creek, Tuolumne Co., Jepson 

 6520a; Chico Aleadows, Butte Co., Heller 12018; Bisses, Kern Co., Dudley 461; Grant Park, Dudley 

 1196; Yosemite, Dudley; Alt. San Gorgonio, Abrams & McGregor 747; Laguna, Schoenefeldt 3602; 

 Davis Creek, R. M. Austin 490; Big Tree Grove, Calaveras Co., Brewer 2354; Castella, Shasta Co., 

 Piper 6470; Smiths Alt., San Diego Co., McClatchie; Pit River Ferry, Shasta Co., H. E. Brown 286 

 (in part); San Antonio Mts., Johnston 1636; Alt. Eddy, Siskiyou Co., Eggleston 11662; Siskiyou Co., 

 Dudley. 



Refs.: Carex scbfusca W. Boott in S. Wats. Bot. Cal. 2: 234 (1880); Parish, Bull. S. Cal. 

 Acad. 5: 53 (1906). "C. festiva stricta Bailey" Parish, Bull. S. Cal. Acad. 5: 53 (1906) in part. C. 

 macloviana D 'Urv. var. siibfusca Kiik. in Engler, Pflzr. 4 2s : 197 (1909). 



35. C. praticola Rydb. Cespitose, the rootstock elongate; culms slender, 

 often nodding above, 2.5-6 dm. high, roughened beneath the head, much exceeding 

 the leaves; leaf -blades 1-2 mm. wide, flat; spikes 2-6, elliptic, 6-16 mm. long, 5 mm. 

 wide, the upper contiguous, the lower remote, in a more or less moniliform head; 

 bracts except lowest not developed; scales ovate, obtuse or acutish, brownish tinged, 

 shining, with green midvein and hyaline margins; perigynia appressed, concealed 

 by scales, ovate-lanceolate, 4.5-6.5 mm. long, narrowly winged, round-tapering at 

 the base, lightly nerved dorsally, nearly nerveless ventrally, pale green, mem- 

 branaceous, tapering to a short hyaline-tipped beak, the beak bidentulate, }/$ length 

 of body, obliquely cut and fissured dorsally. 



