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tbe lower long-peduneled ; scales purplisli-blaek with white often excurrent mid- 

 vein; perigynia flattened, ovoid, sessile, -1 mm. long, abruptly minutely beaked, 

 the beak bidentulate ; acliene short-stipitate. 



High Sierra Nevada, 6000 to 11,000 ft., from Tulare Co. to Siskiyou Co. 

 North to Alaska, east to Montana. 



Locs. — Mt. Wliitnoy, Copclaiid 47; Minaret.s, Congdon; Mt. Dana, Congdon; Carson Pass, 

 Brewer 210(5; Pyramid Peak, Brewer 2136; Lassen Peak, Bremer 2186; Caribou Peak, Siskiyou 

 Co., Dudley. 



Eefs. — Carex spectabilis Dew. Am. Jour. Sei. 29:2'18, pi. X, f. 76 (1836), type from 

 Eocky Mts. of Brit. Am. C. invisa Bailey, Proe. Am. Aead. 22:82 (1886), tvpe from Summit 

 Camp, Nevada Co., Kellogg. C. padoearpa W. Boott in Bot. Cal. 2:245 (1880), not E. Br. 

 C. tolmiei Boott var. invisa Kiik. in Eugler, Pflzr. 4-":412 (1909). 



92. C. raynoldsii Dew. Culms 2 to 7.5 dm. high; leaf-blades 3 to 8 mm. 

 wide; tenninal spike 1 to 2 cm. long, the lateral pistillate spikes 2 or 3, approxi- 

 mate or lowest separate, pednncled, erect, oblong, 1 to 2 cm. long, closely 15 to 

 40-flowered; perigynia oblong-oval, roiuid in cross-section, 3.5 to 4.5 mm. long, 

 prominently ribbed and slenderly nerved, rounded at base, the very short beak 

 minutely bidentate. 



Movuitain meadows and bogs, SieiTa Nevada from Tulare Co. to Siskiyou Co., 

 7000 to 8000 ft.. North to Canada. 



Locs. — Tobias Mdw., Tulare Co., Dudley 616; Peregoy Mdws., Yosemite Park, Jepson 

 4340; Tuolumne Mdw.?., Jepson 32.59; Calaveras Big Trees, Eitlebrand 2323 (in part); Sum- 

 mit, Placer Co., Heller 9854; Medicine Lake, Siskiyou Co., Gold'<mith 5a. 



Eefs. — Carex raynoldsu Dew. Am. Jour. Sci. ser. 2, 32:39 (1861), type loe. Pierre's Hole, 

 Snake Eivcr Valley, Ida., Haijden; Mackenzie, Erytliea 8:68, fig. 36 (1922). 



93. C. bifida Boott. Culms sharply triangular, slender, smooth, 4 to 8 dm. 

 high, the basal .sheaths purplish-tinged; leaf-blades 1.75 to 3.5 mm. wide; ter- 

 minal spike 1.5 to 3 cm. long, staminate or with some perigynia; pistillate spikes 

 3 to 5, erect, short-peduncled or sessile, oblong, 8 to 18 mm. long, with 20 to 40 at 

 length spreading perigynia ; scales ovate, sharp-pointed ; perigynia narrowly 

 ovate, flattened triangular, about 10-nerved, 3 to 4.5 nun. long, the beak 0.5 to 



1 nmi. long, the teeth minute, rough and purplish-tinged within. 



Tehaehapi Range ; Coast Ranges from San Luis Obispo Co. to Humboldt Co. 

 North to southern Oregon. 



Locs. — Tehaehapi, Greene; San Luis Obispo, Jones 3235; Santa Lucia Peak, Jepson, 4739; 

 Los Gatos, Heller 8570; Spring Valley, San Mateo Co., Congdon: Mt. Tamalpais, Piper 6430; 

 Los Guilicos Valley, Sonoma Co., Bioletti; Eed Mt., Mendocino Co., Bnlander 6476. 



Eefs. — Care.x bifida Boott, ex Olney, Proc. Am. Acad. 7:394 (1868), type loo. Salinas 

 Valley, Brewer 574; Mackenzie, Erythea 8:69, fig. 37 (1922). C. serratode)is W. Boott in Bot. 

 Cal. 2:245 (1880), tvpe from Cal. C. aequa C. B. Clarke, Kew Bull. Misc. Inf. add. ser. 8:86 

 (1908), type from San Mateo Co., Baler 811. 



94. C. buxbaumii Wahl. Densely cespitose, but with long stolons; culms 



2 to 9 dm. high, rough above, slender; leaf-blades 2 to 4 mm. wide, glaucous- 

 green; spikes usually 3 or 4, erect, 8 to 40 mm. long, sessile or short-peduncled; 

 scales awned, dark pur]ili.sh-tinged, exceeding perigynia; perigynia 3 to 4 mm. 

 long, glaucous-green, obovoid, lightly numy-nerved, the apex minutely bidentate. 



Bogs in the high Sierra Nevada of Tuohunne Co. (Tuolumne Soda Sprs., 

 Bolander 5056). North to Alaska, east to the Atlantic. Eurasia. 



Eef. — Carex buxbaumii Wahl. Vet. Akad. Hadl. Stockholm 24:163 (1803), based on 

 plants of Sweden and Lapland. 



95. C. helleri Jlackenzie. Very densely cespitose, the culms 0.5 to 3 dm. 

 high ; leaf-blades 2 to 3.5 mm. wide ; spikes oblong, 10 to 20 mm. long, densely 

 25- to 50-flowered ; scales acuminate or aristate, much narrower than perigynia ; 

 perigynia broadly oval to suborbicular, much flattened, 2.5 to 3.5 mm. long, 

 nerveless, abruptlj' beaked, the beak 0.25 mm. long, bidentate ; achenes short- 

 stipitate. 



High montane, 8500 to 13,600 ft. : Sierra Nevada from Tulare Co. to Eldorado 

 Co. ; White Mts. Ea.st to Nevada. 



