THE GENUS CAREX IN CALIFORNIA 35 



Type Locality: Perm Yan, New York (Sartwell). 



Boggy meadows from Maine to Florida westward to British Columbia and 

 south to Arizona, northern Mexico and California. In California known only from 

 the northern counties. 



Locs.: Mt. Shasta, A. Wood 999; Prattville, Plumas Co., Jones; Sisson, Heller 8041. 



Refs.: Carex interior Bailey, Bull. Torr. Club 20: 426 (1893). C. scirpoides Schk. in Willd. 

 Sp. PI. 4: 237 (1805) in small part; not C. scirpoidea Michx. Fl. 2: 171 (1803), type from Pennsylvania. 

 "C. stellulata" Good. Torr. Ann. Lye. N. Y. 3: 392 (1836), based on the last. C. stellulata Good. var. 

 scirpina Tuckerm. Enum. Method. 9 (1843), based on C. scirvoides. C. stellulata Good. var. scirpoides 

 Carey in A. Gray Man. 544 (1848); Kuk., in Engler, Pflzr 4«>: 231 (1909). 



24. C. ormantha Mackenzie n. comb. Densely cespitose from short creeping 

 slender rootstocks, the culms 1.5-4 dm. high, slender but rather stiff, smooth; leaf- 

 blades slightly canaliculate, 1.5-2 mm. wide; head 2-6 cm. long, the 3-4 spikes widely 

 separate, the terminal long-clavate at base, the lateral suborbicular, 6-8 mm. wide, 

 3-5 mm. long with 2-12 widely radiating perigynia; perigynia 3.5-4 mm. long, 1.5 

 mm. wide, rounded at base, the margins scarcely elevated, entire, tapering into the 

 serrulate bidentate beak more than Yi length of body, the teeth short. 



Type Locality: Strawberry Creek, El Dorado Co., California (Brainerd 160). 

 Boggy places, extending north from the San Bernardino Mts., through the 

 Sierra Nevada to northern California; also in Oregon. 



Locs.: Strawberry Creek, El Dorado Co., Brainerd 160; Yosemite, Hall & Babcock 3412; 

 San Bernardino Mts., Parish 3274; Bluff Lake, San Bernardino Mts., Parish 2274, 3702 (in part), 

 3703; Crescent Lake, Mariposa Co., Congdon; Sequoia National Park, Geo. B. Grant, Davidson 2125; 

 Kaweah River, Tulare Co., Dudley 1448, 3321; Panther Peak, Tulare Co., Dudley 1301; Camp Alta, 

 Tulare Co., Dudley 977; Big Trees, Calaveras Co., Bolander & Hillebrand 2324; American Valley, 

 R. M. Austin; Mineral, Tehama Co., Eggleston 7209; Three Rivers, Dudley 2801. 



Refs.: Carex ormantha Mackenzie. C. echinata Murr. var. ormantha Fernald, Proc. Am. 

 Acad. 37: 483, pi. 4, f. 89 (1902), excluding Conn, and R. I. specimens. C. stellulata Good. var. ormantha 

 Fernald, Rhodora 4: 222, (1902); Parish, Bull. S. Cal. Acad. 5: 47 (1906). 



25. C. phyllomanica W. Boott. Densely cespitose from slender creeping 

 rootstocks, the culms 2.5-6 dm. high, obtusely triangular below, sharply above, 

 smooth or nearly so; leaf-blades flat, 1.75-2.75 mm. wide; head 1.5-3.5 cm. long, 

 the 3-4 spikes approximate, the terminal clavate at base, the lateral suborbicular, 

 7 mm. wide with 8-15 widely spreading perigynia; perigynia 3.75-4.5 mm. long, 1.5 

 mm. wide, round-truncate at base, the margins scarcely elevated, entire, tapering 

 into the serrulate bidentate beak scarcely Yi length of body, the teeth short. 



Type Locality: Mendocino City, California (Bolander 4746). 

 Swampy places near the coast from northern California to Alaska. 



Locs.: Mendocino City, Bolander 4746, 6193; Red Mt., Mendocino Co., Bolander 4739; Del 

 Norte Co., Davy; Patricks Point, Humboldt Co., Tracy 4364; "California" (probably Santa Rosa) 

 Bigelow. 



Refs.: Carex phyllomanica W. Boott in S. Wats. Bot. Cal. 2: 233 (1880); Kuk., in Engler, 

 Pflzr. 420 : 237 (1909). "C. sterilis Willd," W. Boott, 1. c. 236. "C. vallicola Dewey," W. Boott, 1. c. 

 235. "C. echinata Murr." W. Boott, 1. c. 237. 



26. C. angustior Mackenzie. Densely cespitose, the culms very slender but 

 strict, 1-3 dm. high, light brownish at base, somewhat roughened above; leaf- blades 

 0.5-2 mm. wide, flat or canaliculate; spikes 2-5, approximate or little separate, 4-6 

 mm. long, and nearly as wide, with 3-15 at length widely spreading perigynia, the 

 terminal long clavate, the lateral rounded at base; scales as long as body of perigynia, 

 ovate, acute,acuminate or cuspidate, yellowish-brown tinged with hyaline margins, 

 keeled with the sharp midvein which is prominent to the tip; perigynia 2.5-3.5 mm. 

 long, 1.25 mm. wide, plano-convex with slightly raised margins, yellowish-brown, 

 impressed nerved ventrally, rather faintly nerved dorsally, tapering into a beak 

 more than }4 length of body, with margins sparingly serrulate and apex bidentate. 



Type Locality: Fairfield, New York. 



