1921] Smiley: Flora of the Sierra Nevada of California 127 



Specimens examined. — Above Suzy Lake, Tahoe, 8,000 feet, Smiley 

 198; Lake Lucile, Tahoe, Hall and Chandler 4656; Carson Pass, 

 Brewer 2136; Summit Camp, Kellogg; foot of Mt. Dana, Congdon, 

 August 10, 1898 ; Nellie Lake, meadow, 8,700 feet. Smiley 600. 



Other Carex species are not infrequently collected within our 

 borders but their zones of greatest frequency are below our limits. 



Since the above treatment of this difficult genus was completed, 

 Mr. K. K. Makenzie has published a paper on the ' ' Californian Rep- 

 resentatives of the Ovales" (Bull. Torr. Bot. Club, vol. 43, pp. 601- 

 620. 1916), wherein a number of new species are proposed and 

 certain specimens cited which, in the treatment here presented, are 

 otherwise referred. 



12. JUNCACEAE (Rush Family) 



Leaves soft and flat, their sheaths closed; stems hollow; capsule 1-celled and 

 3-seeded; plants more or less villous 1. Luzula 



Leaves stiff, terete or flat, their sheaths open; stems usually filled with spongy 

 pith; capsule 3-celIed and many seeded; plants never villous 2. Juncus 



1. LUZULA 



Inflorescence an open cyme. 



Pedicels short, the flowers in somewhat fascicular clusters; leaves lance- 

 linear to lanceolate 1. L. parviflora 



Pedicels elongated, the flowers solitary; leaves linear 2. L. divaricata 



Inflorescence spicate or glomerate. 



The inflorescence nodding, usually a single spike; leaves channeled 



3. L. spicata 



The inflorescence erect, of 2 or more subglobose or oblong clusters 



4. L. campestris 



1. Luzula parviflora var. subcongesta Buchenau, Monogr. Juncac, 

 p. 110. 1890. 



L. spadicea var. suhcongesta Wats. Bot. Calif., vol. 2, p. 202. 1880. 



Type locality. — "In the Sierra Nevada, near Donner Lake." 

 Torrey. 



Range. — California northward and eastward to Washington and 

 Utah? 



Zone. — Canadian. 



Specimens examined. — High mountain near Donner Pass, Torrey 

 541 ; above Donner Pass, 7,500 feet, Heller 7135 ; near Donner Lake, 

 E. L. Greene 454; Tioga Road near Dark Hole, Yosemite, 7,700 feet, 

 Smiley 877; Yosemite Creek, 7,300 feet. Hall and Babcock 3458; 

 Tioga Road, dry pine forest, 8,400 feet, R. A. Ware 2719c. 



