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10. C. hoodii Boott. (Fig. 30a-c.) Culms 3 to 8 dm. high; leaf -blades 1.5 

 to 3.5 mm. wide; head 1 to 2 cm. long, the spikes with 5 to 10 ascending peri- 

 gynia; scales ovate, sharp-pointed, chestnut brown with lighter keel and broad 

 hyaline margins ; perigynia lance-ovate, 4 to 5 mm. long, green-margined above, 

 the beak y 3 length of body. 



Mountain meadows and slopes, Sierra Nevada from Tulare Co. to Shasta Co. 

 North to British Columbia, east to Colorado. 



Locs. Soda Sprs., Tulare Co., Dudley 2343; Minarets, Congdon; Lake Merced, Yosemite 

 Park, Jepson 4409, 4428; Kennedy Lake, A. L. Grant 199; Tallac, Brainerd; Morgan, Tehama 

 Co., Hall $ Babcoclc 4346. 



Refs. CAREX HOODII Boott in Hook, Fl. Bor. Am. 2:211, pi. 211 (1840), type loe. Columbia 

 River, Douglas; Mackenzie, Erythea 8:26, fig. 6 (1922). C. hoodii Boott var. nervosa Bailey, 

 Mem. Torr. Club 1:14 (1889), type from Cal., Kellogg # Harford 1069. 



11. C. tunmlicola Mackenzie. Culms 2 to 8 dm. high; leaf -blades 1.5 to 

 2.5 mm. wide; head 2 to 5 cm. long, slender, the upper spikes aggregated, the 

 lower separate, with 10 or fewer appressed perigynia; lower bracts long-cuspi- 

 date; scales largely concealing perigynia, brownish straw-color with hyaline 

 margin and green midrib, acuminate to cuspidate; perigynia lanceolate, 4 to 

 5 mm. long, the serrulate beak % to i/o length of body. 



Dry soil in the coastal counties from Monterey Co. to Humboldt Co., and in 

 the Sierra Nevada from Tuolumne Co. to Calaveras Co. North to Washington. 



Locs. Coast Ranges: Monterey, Davy 7268; Santa Cruz Mts., Bolander 150; Berkeley 

 Hills, Davy 4244; St. Helena, Jepson 6242; Ft. Bragg, Bolander 4765; Eureka, Tracy 4642. 

 Sierra Nevada: Relief Dam, Tuolumne Co., A, L. Grant 370; Calaveras Big Trees, A. L. 

 Grant 4c. 



Refs. CAREX TUMULICOLA Mackenzie, Bull. Torr. Club 34:154 (1907), type loc. Lake 

 Temescal, Alameda Co., Bioletti; Erythea 8:27, fig. 7 (1922). C. muricata L. var. gracilis 

 W. Boott in Bot. Cal. 2:232 (1880), not F. Boott. C. hoolceriana Kiik. in Engler, Pflzr. 4 20 :161 

 (1909) as to Cal. plant, not Dew. 



Sect. 7. Multiflorae Kunth. Densely cespitose. Culms sharply triangular. Opaque part of 

 sheaths usually transversely rugulose, red-dotted. Spikes numerous, small, androgynous 

 or pistillate, but never gynaecandrous, the lower more or less compound. Bracts frequently 

 conspicuous. Perigynia plano-convex, appressed-ascending or spreading, not thick-walled, 

 somewhat spongy at base, short-stipitate, sharp-margined, more or less nerved, conspicuously 

 rough-beaked, the beak bidentate. Achenes lenticular. Stigmas 2. 



12. C. stenoptera Mackenzie. Culms 2.5 to 4 dm. high; leaf -blades 2 to 

 3 mm. wide, channeled, the sheaths tight; head decompound, 2 to 5.5 cm. long, 

 with spikes 5 to 8 mm. long, 4 to 6 mm. wide ; bracts inconspicuous ; scales ovate- 

 lanceolate, obtusish to short-cuspidate, brownish, exceeding perigynia; perigynia 

 3 to 3.5 mm. long, nerved dorsally, nerveless veutrally or nearly so, round-taper- 

 ing at base, tapering into a serrulate beak about y 2 length of body. 



San Antonio Mts., Southern California. 



Ref. CAREX STENOPTERA Mackenzie, Erythea 8:28 (1922), type loc. Ice House Canon, San 

 Antonio Mts., Johnston 1505. 



13. C. alma Bailey. (Fig. 30d-f.) Culms 3 to 12 dm. high, strict, rough 

 on angles ; leaf -blades 3 to 6 mm. wide ; head 2.5 to 20 cm. long, decompound, the 

 clusters closely aggregated to strongly separate ; scales ovate, short-pointed to 

 obtusish, straw-colored or brownish ; perigynia 3.5 to 4 mm. long, smooth, shining, 

 narrowly green-margined, serrulate from middle, lightly few-nerved on both 

 sides, tapering into the serrulate beak. 



Along streams, Monterey and Tulare cos. to Southern California. East to 

 southern Nevada and Arizona. 



Locs. Coast Ranges: Tassajara Hot Sprs., Monterey Co., Elmer 3137; Mt. Pinos, Hall 

 6429. Southern California: Pasadena, McClatchie ; San Antonio Mts., Johnston 1425; Mt. 

 San Gorgonio, Geo. B. Grant 6399; Palm Sprs., Mt. San Jacinto, Parish 4144; New York Mts., 

 Parish 10225. Sierra Nevada: Nelson Soda Sprs., Tulare Co., Dudley 877; Bisses sta., Kern 

 Co., Dudley 405. 



Refs. CAREX ALMA Bailey, Mem. Torr. Club 1:50 (1889), type loc. San Bernardino Co., 

 Parry $ Lemmon 396; Mackenzie, Erythea 8:28, fig. 8 (1922). C. vitrea Holm, Am. Jour. 



