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lU. C. hoodii Boott. (Fig. 30a-c.) Culms 3 to 8 dm. high; leaf-blade.s 1.5 

 to 3.5 mm. wide; head 1 to 2 cm. long, the spikes with 5 to 10 ascending peri- 

 gj-nia; scales ovate, sharp-pointed, chestnut brown with lighter keel and broad 

 hyaline margins ; perigynia lance-ovate, 4 to 5 mm. long, green-margined above, 

 the beak 1 3 lengtli of body. 



Mountain meadows and slopes, Sierra Nevada from Tulare Co. to Shasta Co. 

 North to British Columbia, east to Colorado. 



Locs. — Soda Sprs., Tulare Co., DucUc;/ 2343: Minarets, Congdon; Lake Merced, Yosemite 

 Park, Jepson 4409, 4428; Kennedy Lake, A. L. Grant 199; Tallae, Brainerd; Morgan, Tehama 

 Co., HaH # Babcock 4346. 



Refs.— Carex hoodii Boott in Hook, Fl. Bor. Am. 2:211, pi. 211 (1840), type loc. Columbia 

 Eiver, Douglas; Mackenzie, Erythea 8:26, fig. 6 (1922). C. hoodii Boott var. nervosa Bailey, 

 Mem. Torr. Club 1:14 (1889), type from C'al., Kellogg tf- Harford 1069. 



11. C. tumulicola Mackenzie. Culms 2 to 8 dm. high; leaf -blades 1.5 to 

 2.5 mm. wide ; head 2 to 5 cm. long, slender, the upper spikes aggregated, the 

 lower separate, with 10 or fewer appressed perigjTiia; lower bracts long-cu-spi- 

 date; scales largelj- concealing perigj-nia, brownish straw-color with hyaline 

 margin and green midrib, acuminate to cuspidate ; perigynia lanceolate, 4 to 

 5 mm. long, the serrulate beak i,-; to i/o leng-th of body. 



Dry soil in the coastal counties from Monterey Co. to Humboldt Co., and in 

 the Sierra Nevada from Tuolumne Co. to Calaveras Co. North to Washington. 



Locs. — Coast Ranges: Monterey, Davy 7268; Santa Cruz Mts.. Bolaiider 150; Berkeley 

 Hills, Daiy 4244; St. Helena, Jepson 6242; Ft. Bragg, Bolander 4765; Eureka, Tracy 4642. 

 Sierra Nevada: Relief Dam, Tuolumne Co.. A. L. Grant 370; Calaveras Big Trees, A. L. 

 Grant 4c. 



Refs. — Carex tumulicola Mackenzie. Bull. Torr. Club 34:154 (1907), type loc. Lake 

 Temescal, Alameda Co., Bioleiti; Erythea 8:27, fig. 7 (1922). C. muricata L. var. gracilis 

 W. Boott in Bot. Gal. 2:232 (1880), not F. Boott. C. hookeriann Kiik. in Engler, Pflzr. 4-°:161 

 (1909) as to C'al. plant, not Dew. 



Sect. 7. Multiflorae Kunth. Densely cespitose. Culms sharply triangular. Opaque part of 

 sheaths usually trausverselv rugulose, red-dotted. Spikes numerous, small, androgynous 

 or pistillate, but never gynaecandrous, the lower more or less compound. Bracts frequently 

 conspicuous. Perigj'nia plano-convex, appressed-aseending or spreading, not thick-walled, 

 somewhat spongy at base, short-stipitate, sharp-margined, more or less nerved, conspicuously 

 rough-beaked, the beak bidentat<'. Achenes lenticular. Stigmas 2. 



12. C. stenoptera Mackenzie. Culms 2.5 to 4 dm. high ; leaf-blades 2 to 

 3 mm. wide, channeled, the sheaths tight; head decom])ound, 2 to 5.5 cm. long, 

 with spikes 5 to S mm. long, 4 to 6 mm. wide; bracts inconspicuous; scales ovate- 

 lanceolate, obtusish to short-cuspidate, brownish, exceeding perigynia; perigynia 

 3 to 3.5 nmi. long, neiwed dorsally, nerveless ventrally or nearly so, round-taper- 

 ing at base, tapering into a serrulate beak about i- lengtli of liody. 



San Antonio ]\Its., Southern California. 



Ref. — Carex stenoptera Mackenzie, Erythea 8:28 (1922), type loc. Ice House Caiion, San 

 Antonio Mts., Johnston 1505. 



13. C. alma Bailey. (Fig. 30d-f.) Culms 3 to 12 dm. high, strict, rough 

 on angles ; leaf-blades 3 to 6 mm. wide ; head 2.5 to 20 cm. long, decompound, the 

 clusters closely aggregated to strongly separate; scales ovate, short-pointed to 

 obtusish, straw-colored or brownish ; perigynia 3.5 to 4 mm. long, smooth, shining, 

 narrowly green-margined, serrnlate from middle, lightly few-nerved on both 

 sides, tapering into the serrulate beak. 



Along stream-s, ilonterey and Tulare cos. to Southern California. East to 

 southern Nevada and Arizona. 



Locs. — Coast Ranges: Tassajara Hot Sprs., Monterey Co., Elmer 31^7; Mt. Finos, Hall 

 6429. Southern California: Pasadena, McChitchic ; San Antonio Mts., Johnston 1425; Mt. 

 San Gorgonio, Geo. B. Grunt 6399; Palm Sprs., Mt. San Jacinto, Parish 4144; New York Mts., 

 Parish 10225. Sierra Nevada: Nelson Soda Sprs., Tulare Co., Dudley 877; Bisses sta., Kern 

 Co., Dxidley 405. 



Refs. — Carex alma Bailey, Mem. Torr. Club 1:50 (1889), type loc. San Bernardino Co., 

 Parry if- Lemmon 396; Mackenzie, Erythea 8:28, fig. 8 (1922). C. vitrea Holm, Am. Jour. 



