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ium ovate-lanceolate or lanceolate, tapering to a long bifid beak, spongy at base, 
winged, serrate and waved on the margins, slightly nerved, shorter than or 
nearly equaling the ovate-lanceolate acuminate scale, which is niendjranous 
with bright rusty-colored margins. Eoot fibrous ; culm 1-2° high, leafy. — 
Yosemite Valley, California, (1G50 Brewer, 552 Torrey, G213 Bolaiider ;) 
Colorado, (587 D., Vasey.) Truckee River, Nevada, near the Big Bend, (W. 
W. Bailey ;) 4,000 feet altitude; August. (1,23G.) 
Var. MINOR, Olney. California, (Brewer and IliHcbrand.) Young 
specimens from the Wahsatch Mountains may (hmbtfully Ije referred liere : 
9,000 feet altitude ; August. (1,237.) 
Cakex Liddoni, Boott. Spike erect, oblong, rusiy-wliite, composed of 
3-6 androgynous club-shaped spikelets, the u[»per half pistillate, i\w. lower 
staminate, contiguous, simple ; bracts scale-like, long-acuminate ; stigmas 2 ; 
perigynium lanceolate, tapering to a bifid beak, deeply cleft in front, winged, 
slightly nerved, compressed, loosely imbricated, bright rust-colored above, 
longer than or nearly equahng the lanceolate acuminate, acute or cuspidate 
scale, which is of a bright-rusty color, whitish-hyaline on the margins and 
scabrous on the nerve ; achenium lanceolate, stipitate. Culm 2-3° high, 
exceeding the leaves. — On the Columbia River, (Scouler !) East IIund)oldt 
Mountains, Nevada, near snow at 9,000 feet aUitudc ; July, August. (1,238.) 
References to doubtful plants that have been referred to this species are 
omitted. 
Carex straminea, Schk. Throughout North America; Colorado, on 
Hayden's Survey, (Thomas, 422 Greene.) In the Uintas, on a snowy 
divide between the Provo and Duchesne Rivers; 10,000 feet altitude; 
July. (1,239.) 
Carex limula. Fries., (not of Gray's Manual.) Spikelets erect, 3-4, 
the terminal one (or sometimes two) staminate, the remainder pistillate, often 
with staminate flowers at the apex, oblong, cylindrical, the lowest pe.luneu- 
late ; bracts leafy, surpassing the culm, with small blackish auricles ; >tigmas 
2 ; perygnium oblong, compressed, faintly nerved, exceeding or equaling the 
black oblong single-nerved scale; achenium obovate, eompivsxMl. Culm 
2-24° high, acutely angled ; leaves erect, flat, rough on the margins, the 
sheathing base-leaves not fibrillose.— Colorado, at 11,300 feet altitude, (582 
Yasey.) In the Uintas on the shore of a subali)iiie lake, u ith C. elongafa, 
&c.; 9,500 feet altitude ; August. (1,240.) 
