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peduncles), approximate, erect, sessile or a little peduncled, 5-10 
mm. long, 4-8 mm. wide, short-oblong or suborbicular, containing 
4-10 ascending, rather closely arranged perigynia in few ranks; 
bracts leaflet-like, shorter than to a little exceeding inflorescence, 
little sheathing, occasionally with a purplish tinge at base; scales 
ovate, obtuse to cuspidate, purplish with lighter center and hy- 
aline margins, somewhat wider and longer than perigynia; peri- 
gynia 5 mm. long, the body globose, 2.25 mm. wide, puberulent 
or short-pubescent, 3-angled, noticeably nerved, abruptly nar- 
rowed to a prominent stipitate base and abruptly beaked at apex, 
the beak 0.75-1.25 mm. long, strongly bidentate; achenes ob- 
tusely triangular, closely fitting within perigynia, short-obovoid, 
2 mm. long; stigmas three. 
All specimens seen referable to this species are from the coastal 
counties of California and the islands off the coast. The range 
so shown is from Santa Cruz Island and Santa Barbara north as 
far as Sonoma County. The specimens from the Yosemite Valley 
referred to this species seem more properly referable to the 
following species. 
SPECIMENS EXAMINED: 
CaLiFoRNIA: Oakland, Bolander (C., L. S.*); ‘California,”’ 
Bolander, 1865 (L. S.); Oakland, Bolander 20 (H.); Oakland, 
Bolander 2295, May, 1866 (H.); Island of Santa Cruz, Brandegee, 
Apr. 1888 (N. Y.); Monterey County, Davy 7366 (P.); Sonoma 
County, Congdon 84, May 29, 1892 (P.); Mt. Tamalpais, Marin 
County, Heller 5716, June 18, 1902 (L. S., N. Y.); San Diego, 
Brandegee, 1889 (N. Y.); Sonoma County, Congdon, May 30, 
1895 (L. S.); Santa Lucia Mts., Monterey County, Davy 7724, 
May, June, 1901 (H.); Santa Barbara, Brewer 303 (H.; L. S.); 
Brown 370, June 1897 (N. Y.); Redwoods, Marin Co., Bolander 
V+W, 1866 (C.). 
2. Carex Brainerdii sp. nov. 
In large clumps from slender, elongated rootstocks, the culms 
from very short to 15 cm. high, phyllopodic, reddened and slightly 
* a to the abbreviations of the names of herbaria used in the present paper: 
arvard University; L. S., Leland Stanford Junior University; N. Y., New — 
York es Garden; P., S. B. Parish; B., Ezra Brainerd; K. M., Kenneth K. 
Mackenzie; D. C., Geological Survey of Canada; N., U.S. eas C., Colum- 
bia University; Piper, C. V. Piper. 
