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Locs. Cuyamaca, T. Brandegee; Mt. San Jacinto, Hall 2232; San Bernardino, Pa 

 2143; Yosemite, Jepson 8365, 8371; Confidence, Tuolumne Co., Jepson 7707; Calaveras Grove, 

 Hillebrand 2332; upper Fall River Valley, Jepson 5753; Klamath Hot Sprs., Goldsmith 2' 

 Forestdale, Modoc Co., Baker $ Nutting; Oro Fino, Siskiyou Co., Butler 866. 



Eefs. ELEOCHARIS ACICULARIS E. & S. 

 Veg. 2:154 (1817). Scirpus acicularis L. Sp. PI. 



0. ^ (1753), type European. E. aoicularis var. radi- 



cans Britton, Jour. N. Y. Mic. Soe. 5:105 (1889). 



7. E. parishii Britton. Steins 4 to 7 

 inches high, strongly striated, arising from 

 a slender rootstock; spikes slender-lanceo- 

 late, 3 to 7 lines long, dark chestnut-color; 

 bristles 6 (or 7), ciliate, exceeding or 

 sometimes rather shorter than the achcne; 

 achene nearly plane on one side, convex and 

 somewhat keeled on the other; tubercle 

 narrow, short, somewhat like a fool's cap. 



Valley and mountain marshes through- 

 out California. 



Fig. 16. ELEOCHARIS ACICULARIS E. & 

 S. a, entire plant, XI; 6, spikelet, 

 X 5; c, braet, X 18; d, achene, X 18. 



Loes. Palm Canon, e. base Mt. San Jacinto, 

 Parish 6145; San Antonio Mts., Hall 1517; 

 Mohave, Parish 9796; Seymour Mdws., Mt. Pinos, 

 Hall 6625; San Emigdio, Potreros, Hall 6370; 



Owens Lake, Hall $ Cha-ndler 7325; Ibex Spr., Inyo Co., Parish 10025; San Joaquin Eiver 

 Bridge, K. Brandegee; Chico, Copeland 3280; Castle Eock, Sacramento Eiver, Goldsmith; 

 Hornbrook, Siskiyou Co., Copeland 3556. 



Eefs. ELEOCHARIS PARISHII Britton, Jour. N. Y. Mic. Soc. 5:110 (1889), type loc. Palm 

 Sprs. (Agua Caliente), Parish 1569. E. disoiformis Parish, Bull. S. Cal. Aead. 3:81 (1904), 

 type loe. e. base Mt. San Jacinto, Hall 2013 (in isotype material of this the achene shape, 

 the tubercle and bristles are as in E. parishii; it is, however, said to be annual). 



8. E. montana R. & S. Stems 10 to 14 inches high from stoutish rootstocks; 

 spikelets narrowly oblong, 2*/2 to 5 lines long ; scales straw-color or light-brown ; 

 bristles 5 or 6, exceeding or a little shorter than the achene ; achene obovoid, 

 flattish on one side, strongly convex on the other ; tubercle conical, broadened 

 at base. 



Southern California, north in the Coast Ranges and Sierra Nevada. East to 

 Colorado and New Mexico, south to South America. 



Locs. La Mesa, Jepson 6684; Witch Creek, San Diego Co., ace. Parish; Los Angeles, ace. 

 Parish; San Bernardino Valley, Jepson 5595; Victorville, Parish 10563; Soulsbyville, Tuolumne 

 Co., Jepson 7686; Hopland, Jepson 7625. 



Eefs. ELEOCHARIS MONTANA E. & S. Syst. Veg. 2:153 (1817), type loc. Quindiu, Columbia. 

 E. arenicola Torr. Jour. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist. 5:237 (1845), type loc. Galveston Isl., Tex., Lind- 

 heimer. 



9. E. rostellata Torr. WALKING-SEDGE. Stems from a short caudex, 1 to 2 l /2 

 feet high, the sterile ones bending over and rooting at the apex ; spikelet oblong, 3 

 to 5-flowered ; scales light-brown or straw-color ; bristles 6, exceeding the achene ; 

 achene obovoid, obtusely triangular; tubercle stoutly subulate or narrowly pyra- 

 midal, half or nearly half as long as the achene. 



Marshy meadows: cismontane Southern California and east and northeast 

 through the Colorado and Mojave deserts. Mostly throughout North America. 



Locs. San Bernardino, ace. Parish; Owens Lake, Jepson 5117; Death Valley (Contrib. 

 U. S. Nat. Herb. 4:211). Var. congdonii Jepson n. var. Bristles equaling the achene; 

 tubercle barely % as long as the achene. (Setae achenio aequales; tuberculum vix longum 

 triente quam achenium). San Francisco, Congdon (type). 



Eefs. ELEOCHARIS ROSTELLATA Torr. Fl. N. Y. 2:347 (1843), based on material from 

 New York and South Carolina. Var. occidentals Wats. Bot. Cal. 2:222 (1880), based on 

 spms. from Ft. Tejon, Horn, and San Bernardino Co., Parry $ Lemmon 398. 



