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Loes. — Cottomvood Lakes, Mt. Whitney, Jepson 5067; upper San Joaquin River. Madera 

 Co., C&ngdon; Mt. Buena Vista, Mariposa Co., Congdon; Lake Tenaya, Congdon; Sonora 

 Pass, Jepson 6578; Silver Mt., Brewer 2045; Mt. Tallac, EaJl 4- Clmn-dler 4617; Lassen Peak, 

 Breuw 2184; Mt. Shasta, Brewer 1397. 



Refs. — Carex straminiformis Bailey, Mem. Torr. Club 1:24 (1889) ; Kiik. in Engler, Pflzr. 

 4^:195, fig. 32e, p (1909). C. straminea WiUd. var. congesta Boott, ex Olney, Proc. Am. Aead. 

 7:393 (1868), type loc Mt. Shasta. Brewer 1375. 



34. C. multicostata Mackenzie. Leaf-blades 2.5 to 6 mm. wide : spikes 

 about 10, 8 to 16 mm. long; scales ovate, obtuse to acute, reddish-brown; peri- 

 gj-nia appressed, ovate, several-nerved ventrally, winged to the rounded base, 

 abruptly contracted into the beak 1 mm. long. 



Mountains of Southern California; Sierra Nevada in Nevada Co.; rare. 



Loes. — San Jacinto Mts., EaU 2492 ; Truckee River, Nevada Co., Dai\i/. 



Refs. — Cares multicostata Mackenzie, Bull. Torr. Club 43:604 (1917), type loc. Bear 

 Valley dam, San Bernardino Mts., Parish 3609. C. specifica Parish, Bull. S. Cal. Aead. 5:50 

 (1906) in small part, not Bailey. C. festiva var. striata Parish, I.e. 53 in small part, not Bailey. 



35. C. subfusca W. Boott. Culms 2 to 6.5 dm. high, smooth; leaf -blades 

 1.5 to 3 mm. wide ; head oblong or ovoid, 1 to 2 cm. long, the spikes 4 to 12, well 

 defined but closely aggregated, ovoid or oblong, 4 to 10 nmi. long, rounded at 

 apex, rounded or somewhat tapering at base, the perigynia appressed-asceuding ; 

 scales ovate, acute, brownLsh ; perigyiiia ovate, plano-convex, thickish, winged to 

 the rounded base, serrulate above, faintly nerved ventrally, contracted into beak 

 1/^ length of body or more. 



High montane in coastal Southern California and in the Sierra Nevada, 4000 

 to 8000 ft. ; Coast Ranges from Monterey Co. to Siskiyou Co., mostly 500 to 

 2500 ft. North to Oregon, east to Arizona. 



Loes. — Southern California: Cuyamaea Mts., Brandegee ; Palomar (Smith Mt.), Stokes; 

 San Jacinto Mts., Eeed 2483; Mt. San Gorgonio, Hall 7617; Mt. San Antonio, Abratm 1933; 

 San Bernardino Mts., Parish 3261. Sierra Nevada: Bisses, Kern Co., Dudley 461; Salmon 

 Creek, Tulare Co., Hall 4' Babcock 5162 (in part); Grant Park, Dudley 1196; Yosemite, 

 Dudley; Cow Creek, Tuolumne Co., Jepson 6520a; Squ.aw Valley, Placer Co., L. S. Synith 555; 

 Chico Mdws., Heller 12018. Coast Ranges: Tassajara Hot Sprs., Elm-er 3133; Russian River, 

 Sonoma Co., Bolander 3876; Weaverville, Yates 297; Castella, Shasta Co., Piper 6470; Mt. 

 Eddy, Siskiyou Co., Eggleston 11662. 



Refs. — Carex subfusca W. Boott in Bot. Cal. 2:234 (1880), type loc. Lake Tahoe, Kellogg. 

 C. festiva var. strict a Parish, BuU. S. Cal. Acad. 5:53 (1906) in part, not Bailey. 



36. C. praticola Rydb. Culms 2 to 7 dm. high, roughened beneath head; 

 leaf-blades 1 to 3.5 mm. wide, flat; spikes 2 to 7, elliptic, 6 to 16 mm. long, the 

 upper contiguous, the lower remote ; bracts except lowest not developed ; scales 

 ovate, acutish, browaiish tinged, shining; perigynia concealed by scales, ovate- 

 lanceolate, 4.5 to 6.5 mm. long, narrowly winged, nearly nerveless ventrally, 

 tapering to a short hj'aline-tipped beak % length of body. 



Meadows and open woods, Humboldt Co. (Eureka, Tracy 4421). North to 

 Arctic America. 



Refs. — Carex praticola Rydb. Mem. N. Y. Bot. Gard. 1:84 (1900). C. pratensis Drejer, 

 R-evig. Car. Bor. 24 (1841), tj-pe loc. Oodthaab, Greenland, J. Vahl; Kiik. in Engler, Pflzr. 

 4=»:198, fig. 33l, m (1909) ; not C. pratensis Hose in 1797. 



37. C. tracyi ^Mackenzie. Head stiff, narrow, 1.5 to 4 cm. long, the spikes 

 4 to 7, ovoid or short-oblong, 7 to 15 mm. long; scales ovate, acute, covering peri- 

 gynia, brownish-red; perigynia ovate, 4 to 5 mm. long, winged to the rounded 

 base, serrulate above, strongly nerved dorsally and ventrally, abruptly beaked, 

 the beak obliquely cut dorsally, at length bidentulate, dark reddish-brown at 

 tip, shorter than body. 



Humboldt Co. (Bald Mt., Tracy 4547). North to British Columbia. 

 Ref. — Carex tracyi Mackenzie, Erythea 8:41 (1922), type loc. Bald Mt., Humboldt Co., 

 Tracy 4547. 



