MACKENZIE: NOTES ON CAREX 615 
“Carex paucifructus sp. nov. 
Densely cespitose, the culms I-2.5 dm. high, erect, stiff, 
sharply triangular, smooth, much exceeding leaves, aphyllopodic, 
brown at base. Leaves with well-developed blades two to four 
to a fertile culm, bunched above the base, the blades 1.5-3 mm. 
wide, flat or canaliculate, short, mostly 3-7 cm. long. Head 
ovoid or oblong, 1-2 cm. long, 6-12 mm. wide, the spikes four to 
eight, aggregated, gynaecandrous, ovoid, tapering at base, round- 
tapering at apex, 6-9 mm. long, 4.5 mm. wide, the basal staminate 
flowers rather conspicuous, the perigynia six to twelve, in few to 
several rows, appressed or appressed-ascending, the beaks not 
conspicuous. Lowest bract short-prolonged, much shorter than 
head, the others scale-like. Scales ovate, chestnut with lighter 
midvein and conspicuous hyaline margins, about width of, but 
shorter than perigynia. Perigynia dull green or soon yellowish 
brown, ovate, thick, strongly plano-convex, 4 mm. long, I.5 mm. 
wide, nerveless ventrally, finely many nerved dorsally, round- 
tapering at base, tapering into the scarcely bidentate beak, mar- 
gined (serrulate above) from base, the beak one third length of 
body, slender at tip, serrulate below, reddish tipped, obliquely 
cut dorsally. Achenes lenticular, short-oblong, 1.75 mm. long, 
over I mm. wide, substipitate, apiculate, the slender style at 
length deciduous. Stigmas two. 
Dr. Brainerd’s specimen cited below and in his herbarium is 
taken as the type of this species. Mounted on the same sheet 
with a duplicate of the type in the University of California collec- 
tion is a specimen of Carex Davyi Mackenzie. The plant here 
described is a species of the Sierra Nevada Mountains. 
SPECIMENS EXAMINED 
CALIFORNIA: Devil’s Basin, Eldorado County, 8,300 tt, 
Brainerd 200, July 19, 1897 (Brainerd, Cal. in part); Webber 
Lake, Sierra County, 6,769 ft., Kennedy & Doten 70, July 2, 1901 
(Cal.); Sierra Nevada, Brandegee (N. Y.). 
“ Carex Harfordii sp. nov. 
Cespitose, the thick rootstocks short, the culms erect, stiff, 
2.5-8 dm. high, obtusely triangular, smooth, much exceeding 
leaves, light brownish at base. Leaves with well-developed blades 
usually three to five to a fertile culm, on lower fourth, but not 
bunched, the blades flat, 2.5-4.5 mm. wide, usually 1-3 dm. long. 
Head globose to oblong-ovoid, 1.5-2.5 cm. long, I-2 cm. wide, 
