548 MACKENZIE: NOTES ON CAREX 
inate, few-flowered, short-peduncled, 6-9 mm. long, 1.5-2 mm. 
wide, the scales narrowly ovate, acute to short-cuspidate, reddish 
brown with light-colored midrib and center and white-hyaline, 
non-ciliate margins; lateral spikes 2, 3 or 4, pistillate, 4-6 mm. 
long and nearly as wide, the uppermost sessile near base of stam- 
inate, the second (if present) sessile and somewhat remote, the 
others far remote, basal, slender-peduncled, the maturing peri- 
gynia I-4, erect-ascending, the upper flowers not developing; 
bract of upper spikes leaflet-like, shorter than or rarely slightly 
exceeding culm, widened at base into reddish brown auricles 
with hyaline margins; scales ovate, acute to short-cuspidate, 
reddish brown with light-colored midrib and center and white- 
hyaline, non-ciliate margins, narrower and shorter than the 
mature perigynia; perigynia about 4 mm. long, loosely short- 
pubescent, more or less yellowish- Siren tinged, stipitate, the 
body globose, 2.25 mm. wide, 2-ribbed, abruptly contracted into 
the slender serrulate, rather shallowly bidentate beak 1 mm. long; 
achenes triangular-globose, the sides strongly convex, closely 
enveloped by perigynia, 2 mm. wide and slightly longer, abruptly 
rounded at base and apex, slightly stipitate; style slender, enlarged 
at base, deciduous, short; stigmas three. 
SPECIMENS EXAMINED: 
BritTisH COLUMBIA: Victoria, Macoun 76706, June 12, 1908 
(N. Y.); Vancouver, Macoun, May 30, 1873 (H); Macoun 32014, 
May 8, 1875 (D. C.). 
WasHINGTON: Whidbey Island, Gardner 343, May 29, 1897 
(Piper). 
OREGON: Yaquina Bay, Howell 2994, May 1886, type (N. Y-); 
Wilkes Exped. 1834—1842 (C.). 
CALIFORNIA: San Francisco, Kellogg, May 1880 (N = 
11. Carex microrhyncha sp. nov. 
In large stools, spreading by short stolons; culms from very 
short to 15 cm. high, mostly much exceeded by the leaves, slender, 
triangular, rough on the angles, reddish-brown tinged and strongly 
fibrillose at base, phyllopodic; sterile culms phyllopodic, termi- 
nating the short stolons, their sheaths little if at all filamentose. 
Leaves numerous, erect or ascending, light green, from very short 
to 20 or 30 cm. in length, at flowering time 1.5—-2.5 mm. wide, in 
age up to 3 mm. wide, flat with somewhat revolute margins, 
very rough above; terminal spike staminate, sessile or short- 
peduncled, 5-10 mm. long, I.5-2.5 mm. wide, the scales obovate, 
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