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THE GENUS CAREX IN CALIFORNIA 



30. C. feta Bailey. (Fig. 16). Densely cespitose, the culms 5-12 dm. high, 

 obtusely triangular, smooth; lower nodes exposed; leaves with blades 2.5-4 mm. 

 wide, flat, the sheaths hyaline only at mouth; head 2-8 cm. long, the spikes 5-15, 



greenish, aggregated or more or less 

 separate, short-oblong or suborbicular, 

 6-10 mm. long, 4-6 mm. wide, short 

 clavate at base, rounded at apex, the 

 20-40 perigynia appressed, or spreading 

 in age; bracts inconspicuous; scales ovate, 

 greenish straw-colored or light brownish 

 tinged, obtusish or acutish, shorter than 

 perigynia; perigynia plano-convex, thick- 

 ish, ovate, greenish, 3-3.5 mm. long, 

 1.75-2 mm. wide, nearly nerveless vent- 

 rally, rounded to a substipitate base, 

 narrowly margined, serrulate above, 

 contracted into a flat serrulate reddish 

 tipped beak less than x /i length of body, 

 obliquely cut dorsally and minutely 

 bidentulate. 



Type Locality : Cloverdale, Sonoma 

 Co., California (Bolander 50). 



A characteristic species of the Pacific 

 Coast states, ranging from British Col- 

 umbia to California, where it is found in 

 the northern portion and throughout the 

 Sierra Nevada and in the southern 

 mountains and in the Coast Ranges as 

 far south as Santa Clara Co. 



Locs.: Cloverdale, Bolander 50; Santa 

 Rosa to Ukiah, Bolander 3864 ; Yosemite, Bolander 

 6216, Brewer 1642; Clarks Ranch, Torrey 551 (in 

 part); "Carex lagopodioides " Mark West Creek, 

 Bigelow; BigTrees.CalaverasCo., Hillebrand 2305 

 (in part), 2317 (in part); Hetch-Hetchy, Hall & 

 Babcock 3358; Sisson, Hall & Babcock 4061; Mt. Shasta, Jepson 53a; Humboldt Co., Tracy 4281; 

 Dinsmores Ranch, Humboldt Co., Tracy 2906; Siskiyou Co., Butler 807; Mariposa Co., Congdon; San 

 Juan, Nevin; San Bernardino Co., Parish 2214; Calaveras Big Trees, Dudley; New York Falls, Amador 

 Co., Hansen 639; Merced River, Mariposa Co., Congdon; El Dorado Co., C. A. Gross; Sherwood 

 Valley, Mendocino Co., Dudley; Arnolds Run, Santa Clara Co., Dudley 4060; Mineral King, Dudley 

 1647; East Hot Spgs., Dudley; Oroville, Heller 10781; Avery, Calaveras Co., A. L. Grant in 1915; 

 Columbia, Tuolumne Co., Jepson 6411; Sissons and Slippery Ford, El Dorado Co., Brainerd 208, 

 207; Yosemite, Dudley, Jepson 4265, 4297; Quincy, Jepson 4140; Alder Point, Humboldt Co., Tracy 

 4734; "California," Bolander 8343; Kenwood, Sonoma Co., Bioletti 9; Shasta City, A. Wood; Auburn, 

 Placer Co., Ames; Trinity Co., Blankinship; Avery, Calaveras Co., Eggleston 9128, 9454; Sisson, 

 Dudley. 



The first specimens cited above down to and including Hillebrand 2317 are in the Gray Herba- 

 rium and are the specimens on which the species is based with the addition of (/) Hall 589 from 

 Oregon, which also belongs here, (2) a specimen collected at Summit Camp by Kellogg, which is C. 

 fracta Mackenzie, and (S) a specimen collected at San Bernardino by Parish, not seen by me. 



Refs.: Cakex feta Bailey, Bull. Torr. Club 20: 417 (1893); Parish, Bull. S. Cal. Acad. 5: 

 50 (1906). C. straminea Willd. var. mixta Bailey, Proc. Am. Acad. 22: 151 (1886), same type; Kiik. 

 in Engler, Pflzr. 420 : 207 (1909). "C. lagopodioides Schk." W. Boott in S. Wats. Bot. Cal. 2: 237 

 (1880). "C. adusta, Boott" W. Boott, 1. e. 238 (in part). "C. cristata Schw. var. mirabilis W. Boott," 

 1. c. 



31. C. fracta Mackenzie n. sp. Densely cespitose, the culms 5-12 dm. high, 

 obtusely triangular, smooth or nearly so; lower nodes not exposed; leaf-blades 3-5 

 mm. wide, flat, the sheaths very thin ventrally, strongly prolonged at mouth above 



Fig. 16. Carex feta Bailey, 

 o, inflorescence, X 1; b, scale, X 8; c, perigynium, 

 X 8; d, culm and sheath, X 2; e, sheath, X 2. 





