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Sect. 15. Finniculmes Kiik. Culms wiry, triangular, aphyllopodic, the leaf-blades often 

 rudimentary at flowering time. Spike one, androgynous, the staminate part in age short- 

 peduneled, the pistillate loosely few-flowered. Bracts absent. Scales. more or less charta- 

 ceous. Perigynia 1 to several, obtusely triangular, smooth, 2-keeled, but otherwise nerve- 

 less, tapering at the base, very minutely beaked, the orifice truncate. Achenes triangular 

 with nearly flat sides, closely enveloped by the perigynia, apiculate-tipped, constricted at 

 base. Stigmas 3, elongated. 



62. C. multicaulis Bailey. (Fig. 32g-i.) Culms 2 to 6 dm. high, deep green ; 

 leaves with well developed blades 1 or 2 to a culm; inflorescence consisting of 

 a terminal staminate part and of 2 to several perigynia in the axils of long 

 (the lower) or short (the upper) awiied scales, these enlarged and white hyaline 

 at base ; staminate scales very obtuse, broadly white hyaline margined ; perigynia 

 oblong-obovoid, 5 to 7 mm. long. 



Dry soil, coastal Southern California, 3500 to 6000 ft. : Sierra Nevada from 

 Tulare Co. to Shasta Co., 4000 to 6000 ft. ; Coast Ranges from Monterey Co. to 

 Siskiyou Co., 100 to 4000 ft. North to Oregon. 



Loca. Southern California: Cuyamaca, Brandegee; San Antonio Mts., Johnston 1738; 

 Mt. Lowe, McClatchie. Sierra Nevada; Big Tree Canon, Tulare Co., Coville $ Funston 1366; 

 Eight Mile, Yosemite to Wawona, Jepson 4293 ; Strawberry Creek, Eldorado Co., Brainerd; 

 Sierra Valley, Lemmon; Stirling, Butte Co., Heller 10794; Quincy, B. M. Austin 1004; Susan- 

 ville, Jones. Coast Ranges: Monterey Co., Davy 7657; Ukiah, Bolander 3906; Rush Creek, 

 Trinity Co., Yates 533; Siskiyou Co., Butler 853. 



Refs. CAREX MULTICAULIS Bailey, Bot. Gaz. 9:118 (1884), type loc. Yosemite Valley, 

 Torrey 544; Mackenzie, Erythea 8:51, fig. 23 (1922). C. geyeri W. Boott in Bot. Gal. 2:229 

 (1880), not F. Boott. 



63. C. geyeri Boott. Culms 1 to 4 dm. high; leaves with well-developed 

 blades usually 2 to a culm, the blades thick, developing after flowering; inflor- 

 escence of the terminal staminate part with oblong-ovate striate obtusish straw- 

 colored scales, and 2 or 3 perigynia, the lower in the axils of short-awned scales, 

 the upper in the axils of obtusish or acutish straw-colored scales; perigynia 

 appressed-ascending, oblong, 6 mm. long. 



Dry mountain sides and open woods, Siskiyou Co. (Mt. Eddy, Eggleston 

 11620). North to Alberta, east to Colorado. 



Befs. CAREX GEYERI Boott, Trans. Linn. Soc. 20:118 (1846), type from the n. Rocky 

 Mts., Geyer; Kiik. in Engler, Pflzr. 4 20 :94, fig. 19F-H (1909). 



Sect. 16. Filifoliae Tuckerm. Densely cespitose. Leaf-blades filiform or narrow. Spike 

 solitary, linear or linear-oblong, androgynous, densely flowered, bractless. Perigynia more 

 or less triangular, nerveless except for the 2 lateral ribs, submembranaceous, not stipitate, 

 not inflated, puberulent or pubescent, beaked or nearly beakless, hyaline-tipped and obliquely 

 cut at apex. Aehenes triangular, apiculate. Stigmas 3. 



64. C. exserta Mackenzie. Culms very slender and wiry, 5 to 25 cm. high; 

 spike 7 to 15 mm. long, the pistillate part with 2 to 12 ascending perigynia, the 

 pistillate scales orbicular-ovate, obtuse, dull reddish brown with hyaline margins ; 

 perigynia obovoid, 2.5 mm. long, essentially beakless. 



Dry places in the mountains, 4000 to 11,000 ft. : San Bernardino Mts. ; White 

 Mts.; Sierra Nevada from Tulare Co. to Eldorado Co. North to southern 

 Oregon. Forms a large part of the "short-hair meadows" in the Sierra Nevada 

 and is said to be readily eaten by stock. 



Locs. Bear Valley, San Bernardino Mts., Parish 1784. White Mts., Jepson 7365. Sierra 

 Nevada: Mountain Lake, Tulare Co., Dudley 935; Harrison Pass, Jepson 5035; Black Mt., 

 Fresno Co., Hall Chandler 616; Little Yosemite, Jepson 4396; Yosemite, Jepson 4493; 

 Dana Fork Tuolumne River, Jepson 3258; Tallac, Dudley. 



Refs. CAREX EXSERTA Mackenzie, Bull. Torr. Club 42:620 (1915); Erythea 8:52, fig. 24 

 (1922). C. filifolia Nutt. var. erostrata Kiik. in Engler, Pflzr. 4 20 :86 (1909), type loc. Echo 

 Lake, Eldorado Co., Brainerd 111. C. filifolia W. Boott in Bot. Cal. 2:229 (1880), not Nutt. 



