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CYPERACEAE 



Widely distributed in the mountain ranges, mostly at lower altitudes, 100 

 to 2000 (or 6000) ft: San Bernardino Mts. ; Coast Ranges; Sierra Nevada. 

 North to British Columbia, east to New Mexico and Montana. 



Locs. Waterman Canon, San Bernardino Mts., Parish 2486. Coast Ranges: Lucia, Hall 

 9992; Santa Cruz, Bolander ; Mt. Tamalpais, Heller 5715; Napa Valley, Bigelow ; Comptehe, 

 McMurphy 430; Eureka, Abrams 6219; Mt. Shasta, Jepson 54a. Sierra Nevada: Deer Creek, 

 Tulare Co., Dudley 629; Eight Mile (Yosemite to Wawona), Jepson 4298; Calaveras Big 

 Trees, Hillebrand 2315; Strawberry Creek, Eldorado Co., Brainerd 179. 



Refs. CAEEX BOLANDERI Olney, Proc. Am. Acad. 7:393 (1868), type loc. Yosemite Valley, 

 Bolander 6209; Mackenzie, Erythea 8:37, fig. 15 (1922). C. deweyana W. Boott in Bot. Gal. 

 2:236 (1880) in part, not Schw.; var. bolanderi W. Boott, l.c. C. bromoides W. Boott, I.e. 230, 

 not Schk. 



Sect. 12. Ovales Kunth. Densely cespitose or (rarely) with short-prolonged rootstocks. 

 Culms triangular. Opaque part of leaf -sheaths not red-dotted or cross-rugulose, but some- 

 times green-striate. Spikes 2 or 3 up to 20, with several to many perigynia, the terminal 

 gynaeeandrous, the lateral pistillate or gynaeeandrous, simple, the inflorescence capitate to 

 monilifonn. Perigynia scale-like or flat (except where distended by achene) to thick and 

 plano-convex, the body subulate to reniform, narrowly to broadly wing-margined, appressed 

 or ascending or spreading, little corky-thickened at base, prominently beaked, the beak 

 bidentate or obliquely cut, often becoming bidentulate, usually serrulate on the margins. 

 Aehenes lenticular. Stigmas 2. 



31. C. feta Bailey. (Fig. 31J-1.) Culms 5 to 12 dm. high, smooth; leaf- 

 blades 2.5 to 4 mm. wide; head 2 to 8 cm. long, the spikes 5 to 15, greenish, 

 aggregated or more or less separate, 6 to 1.0 mm. long, the perigynia appressed, 

 or spreading in age ; bracts inconspicuous ; scales ovate, greenish, acutish ; peri- 

 gynia plano-convex, thickish, ovate, greenish. 3 to 3.5 mm. long, nearly nerveless 

 ventrally, contracted into a flat beak less than i/> length of body. 



Foothills and mountains, 100 to 7800 ft. : coastal Southern California ; Coast 

 Ranges ; Sierra Nevada. North to British Columbia. 



Locs. Southern California: San Juan Capistrano, Nevin; San Bernardino Mts., Parish 

 2214. Coast Ranges: Arnolds Run, Santa Clara Co., Dudley 4060; Kenwood, Sonoma Co., 

 Bioletti 9; Sherwood Valley, Dudley; Alder Point, Humboldt Co., Tracy 4734; Mt. Shasta, 

 Jepson 53a, Sierra Nevada: Mineral King, Dudley 1647; Yosemite, Jepson 4265, 4297; 

 Columbia, Jepson 6411; Avery, Calaveras Co., A. L. Grant; Quincy, Jepson 4140. 



Refs. CAKEX FETA Bailey, Bull. Torr. Club 20:417 (1893); Mackenzie, Erythea 8:38, 

 fig. 16 (1922). C. straminea Willd. var. mixta Bailey, Proc. Am. Acad. 22:151 (1886), type 

 from Cal., Bolander 50. C. lagopodioidcs W. Boott in Bot. Cal. 2:237 (1880), not Schk. C. 

 adusta W. Boott, l.c. 238 (in part), not Boott. C. cristata Schw. var. mirabilis W. Boott, I.e. 



32. C. fracta Mackenzie. Culms 5 to 12 dm. high; leaf -blades 3 to 6 mm. 

 wide ; head 2.5 to 7.5 cm. long, the spikes 7 to 15, aggregated or the lower slightly 

 separate, short-oblong or obovoid, 8 to 12 mm. long, the perigynia appressed or 

 ascending in age; bracts inconspicuous; scales lance-ovate, acuminate or short- 

 cuspidate, shorter than the perigynia ; perigynia lance-ovate, thickish over achene, 

 3 to 4.5 mm. long, strongly nerved ventrally, narrowly margined, serrulate above ; 

 beak about length of body. 



Mountains of Southern California ; Sierra Nevada ; North Coast Ranges ; alt. 

 4000 to 7000 ft. North to Washington. 



Locs. Southern California: San Jacinto Mts., Hall 2665; Seven Oaks, San Bernardino 

 Mts., Geo. B. Grant 4074; Mt. Wilson, Grant 6692 (in part). Sierra Nevada; Lloyd Mt., 

 Tulare Co., Dudley 837; Kings River, Dudley 3263; North Fork San Joaquin River, Congdon; 

 Little Yosemite, Jepson 3160, 4403; Yosemite, Jepson 4333; Cow Creek, Tuolumne Co., Jepson 

 6520; Slippery Ford, Eldorado Co., Brainerd. Coast Ranges: Mt. Sanhedrin, Lake Co., Heller 

 5952; Sisson, Brainerd 189. 



Refs. CAREX FRACTA Mackenzie, Erythea 8:38 (1922), type loc. Mt. Shasta, Pringle. 

 C. specifica Bailey, Mem. Torr. Club 1:21 (1889) in small part. C. adusta W. Boott in Bot. 

 Cal. 2:238 (1880) in greater part, not F. Boott. C. scoparia var. fulva W. Boott, l.c. 237 

 in small part. 



33. C. straminiformis Bailey. Leaf -blades 2 to 3.5 mm. wide; head 1.5 to 

 2.5 cm. long, containing 3 to 6 spikes 6 to 10 mm. long with many spreading- 

 ascending perigynia; scales ovate-lanceolate, acute, reddish-brown; perigynia 

 broadly ovate, strongly winged, nerveless or nearly so ventrally, abruptly beaked, 

 the beak % length of body. 



High summits of the Sierra Nevada, 8000 to 11,700 ft. North to Washington. 



