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perigynia round-truncate at base, tapering into a beak scarcely % length of 

 body, the teeth short. 



Swampy places near the coast from Mendocino Co. to Del Norte Co. North 

 to Alaska. 



Locg. Mendocino City, Bolander 4746; Patricks Point, Humboldt Co., Tracy 4364; Del 

 Norte Co., Davy. 



Befs. CABEX PHYLLOMANICA W. Boott in Bot. CaL 2:233 (1880), type loe. Mendoeino City, 

 Bolander 4746. C. sterilis W. Boott, I.e. 236, not Willd. C. vallicola W. Boott, I.e. 235, not 

 Dew. C. echinata W. Boott, l.c. 237, not Murr. 



27. C. angustior Mackenzie. Culms very slender but strict, 1 to 6 dm. high, 

 somewhat roughened above; leaf -blades 1 to 2 mm. wide, flat or canaliculate; 

 spikes 2 to 5, approximate, 4 to 6 mm. long, with 3 to 15 perigynia, the terminal 

 long-clavate, the lateral rounded at base; scales as long as body of perigynia, 

 ovate; perigynia 2.5 to 3.5 mm. long, yellowish-brown, impressed-nerved ven- 

 trally, tapering into a bideiitate beak more than y 2 length of body. 



Boggy places, rare : Eldorado Co. ; Humboldt Co. North to Washington, east 

 to Newfoundland. 



Locs. Fallen Leaf Lake, Abrams 4796; Bald Mt,, Humboldt Co., Tracy 4532. 



Befs. CAREX ANGUSTIOR Mackenzie in Bydb. Fl. Bocky Mts. 124 (1917). C. stellulata 

 Good. var. angustata Carey, Gray's Man. 544 (1848), type loc. Fairfield, N. Y. 



28. C. illota Bailey. Culms 1 to 3.5 dm. high, slender but strict; leaf-blades 

 1.5 to 3 mm. wide ; scales broadly ovate, obtuse, brownish-black ; perigynia ovate, 

 3 mm. long, obscurely nerved, brownish-black, the beak 1/3 length of body, smooth 

 or nearly so, emarginate. 



High montane, Sierra Nevada from Tulare Co. to Eldorado Co. North to 

 Washington, east to Colorado. 



Locs. Camp Alta, Tulare Co., Dudley 992 ; Kings Biver, Dudley 3299 ; Soda Sprs. of the 

 San Joaquin, Congdon; Yosemite, Congdon 88; Devils Basin and Lake Audrain, Eldorado 

 Co., Brainerd. 



Eefs. CAREX ILLOTA Bailey, Mem. Torr. Club 1:15 (1889), not Parish, Bull. S. Cal. Acad. 

 5:52 (1906). C. bonplandii Kunth var. minor Boott, Proc. Acad. Phila. 77 (1863), type from 

 Col., Hall $ Harbour. C. bonplandii Kunth var. angustifolia W. Boott in Bot. Cal. 2:233 

 (1880), mostly, not F. Boott. 



Sect. 11. Deweyanae Tuckerm. Densely cespitose. Culms triangular. Sheaths not red- 

 dotted or cross-rugulose. Spikes 3 to 8, gynaecandrous, pistillate or rarely staminate, 

 simple. Lower one or two bracts often conspicuous. Perigynia plano-convex, light or 

 yellowish-green, appressed, the body ovate or linear-oblong, strongly spongy at base, only 

 upper half sharp-edged, round-tapering at base, nerved on the outer face, nerved or nerveless 

 on the inner face, the beak bidentulate to deeply bidentate. Achenes lenticular. Stigmas 2. 



29. C. leptopoda Mackenzie. Culms erect, 2 to 8 dm. high, roughened 

 beneath head ; leaf -blades 2.5 to 5 mm. wide ; spikes ovoid-oblong or linear-oblong, 

 with 6 to 18 perigynia ; scales not reddish-brown tinged, mostly cuspidate, shorter 

 than the bodies of the ovate-lanceolate perigynia. 



Damp woods : Sierra Nevada from Tulare Co. to Shasta Co., 4000 to 8000 ft. ; 

 Coast Kanges from Santa Cruz Co. to Trinity Co., 50 to 3000 ft. North to British 

 Columbia, east to Idaho. 



Locs. Sierra Nevada: Mineral King, Hall $ HabcocTc 5373; Pine Bidge, Fresno Co., Hall 



Chandler 238 (in part); Yosemite, Bolander 6201; San Antonio Creek, Calaveras Co., 

 Dudley; McCloud, Goldsmith 8. Coast Banges: Bedwood Park, Santa Cruz Co., Dudley; Oak- 

 land Hills, Bolander; Sherwood Valley, Dudley; Eureka, Tracy 921; Coffee Creek, Trinity Co., 

 Goldsmith 18. 



Befs. CAREX LEPTOPODA Mackenzie, Bydb. FL Bocky Mts. 124 (1917), type loc. Elk Bock, 

 near Oswego, Clackamas Co., Ore., Heller 10052. C. deweyana W. Boott in Bot. Cal. 2:236 

 (1880) in part, not Schw. 



30. C. bolanderi Olney. (Fig. 31g-i.) Culms 1.5 to 9 dm. high, little 

 roughened beneath head; leaf -blades 2.5 to 5 mm. wide; spikes linear-oblong or 

 linear, with 8 to 30 perigynia ; scales usually reddish-brown tinged, mostly acute 

 or mucronate, concealing the bodies of the lanceolate perigynia. 



