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84. C. mendocinensis Olney. Culms 3 to 8 dm. high, much exceeding 

 leaves ; leaves minutely pubescent, the blades 1.75 to 4 mm. wide ; staminate 

 spike 2 to 3.5 cm. long; pistillate spikes 2 or 3, slender, erect, 1.5 to 4 cm. long, 

 closely flowered above, the 20 to 40 perigynia appressed-ascending ; scales ovate, 

 obtuse or short-cuspidate, cinnamon-brown ; perigynia 3.5 to 5 mm. long, oblong- 

 obovoid, somewhat flattened, lightly nerved, minutely puberulent, the beak 0.5 

 mm. long. 



Along streams from Mendocino Co. to Humboldt Co. North to Oregon. 



Locs. Mendoeino, Bolander 4701 ; Three Creeks, Humboldt Co., Tracy 3343. 



Eefs. CAREX MENDOCINENSIS Olney ex W. Boott in Bot. Cal. 2:249 (1880), type loc. 

 Mendocino City, Bolandcr 4701; Mackenzie, Erythea 8:63, fig. 33 (1922). C. cinnamomea 

 Olney, Proc. Am. Acad. 7:39(5 (1868), type from Mendocino Co., Bolander 6477, not C. cinna- 

 momea Boott. 



Sect. 25. Frigidae Fries. Culms phyllopodic, tufted, the leaves clustered near the base. 

 Spikes staminate, pistillate, androgynous or gynaecandrous. Bracts green-sheathing, the 

 blades developed or rudimentary. Scales dark-tinged, usually with light midvein and mar- 

 gins. Perigynia appressed or ascending, flat to flattened-triangular, not inflated, dark- 

 tinged, beaked, the beak hyaline at orifice, more or less bidentate. Achenes triangular, short 

 apiculate. Stigmas 3. 



85. C. lemmonii "W. Boott. Culms slender, 2 to 8 dm. high, smooth, exceed- 

 ing leaves; leaf -blades 1.5 to 4 mm. wide, erect; staminate spike 6 to 25 mm. 

 long, sessile or short-peduncled ; pistillate spikes 2 to 4, linear-oblong, 0.5 to 

 2 cm. long, 5- to 30-flowered, the upper approximate, the lower separate and 

 exsert-peduncled ; perigynia with beak 1 mm. long, sparingly ciliate-serrulate. 



High montane, 6000 to 8500 ft. : Sierra Nevada from Tehama Co. to Tulare 

 Co. ; San Bernardino Mts. 



Locs. Lassen Forest, Tehama Co., Eggleston 7302; Strawberry Creek, Eldorado Co., 

 Brainerd 30: Matterhorn Canon, Yosemite Park, Jepson 4500; Mariposa Big Trees, Congdon; 

 Boulder Creek, Fresno Co., Dudley 3298; Board Camp Creek, Tulare Co., Dudley. San Bernar- 

 dino Mts.: High Creek, Mt. San Gorgonio, Geo. B. Grant 6405; Bear Valley, Abrams 2816. 



Eefs. CAREX LEMMONII W. Boott, Bot. Gaz. 9:93 (1884), type from the Sierra Nevada, 

 Lemmon. C. fulva Good. var. liornscliucliiana W. Boott in Bot. Cal. 2:250 (1880), not F. 

 Boott. C. ablata Parish, Bull. S. Cal. Aead. 4:80 (1905), not Bailey. C. abramsii Mackenzie, 

 Bull. Torr. Club 36:482 (1909), type loe. San Bernardino Mts., Abrams 2816. C. serratodens 

 Kiik. in Engler, Pflzr. 4 20 :666 (1909) in part, not W. Boott. 



86. C. luzulina Olney. Culms 1.5 to 9 dm. high; leaf -blades 3 to 8 mm. 

 wide, stiff; spikes 4 to 8, the upper clustered, the lower widely separated, on 

 long-exserted peduncles, the lateral pistillate, 7 to 20 mm. long, 6 to 9 mm. wide ; 

 perigynia 4 to 5 mm. long, contracted into the short or in age conspicuous, spar- 

 ingly ciliate-serrulate dark purplish-tipped beak. 



Sonoma Co. to Humboldt Co. North to southern Oregon. 



Locs. Santa Eosa Creek, Bigelow; Fort Bragg, Congdon; Bald Mt., Humboldt Co., Tracy 

 4531, 4543. 



Eefs. CAREX LUZULINA Olney, Proc. Am. Acad. 7:395 (1868), type loe. Mendoeino City, 

 Bolander 4746. C. olierolceensis W. Boott in Bot. Cal. 2:248 (1880), not Schw. C. albida 

 Bailey, Mem. Torr. Club 1:9 (1889), type from Santa Eosa Creek, Thurber, Bigelow. C. luzu- 

 laefolia W. Boott var. ablata Kiik. f . albida Kiik. in Engler, Pflzr. 4 20 :558 (1909). 



87. C. ablata Bailey. Culms slender, smooth, 2.5 to 6 dm. high, much exceed- 

 ing leaves ; leaf -blades 3 to 4.5 mm. wide ; spikes 3 to 7, the upper clustered and 

 sessile or nearly so, the lower usually widely separate and on slender exserted 

 peduncles, the terminal usually staminate, the lateral mostly pistillate, 8 to 30 

 mm. long; perigynia lanceolate, greenish, 3.5 to 5 mm. long, obscurely nerved, 

 slightly ciliate-serrulate, rounded at base, the beak scarcely 1 mm. long, dark 

 purplish-tipped. 



Mountain meadows and bogs, Siskiyou Co. (Shasta Forest, Eggleston 11668). 

 North to British Columbia, east to Montana. 



Eefs. CAREX ABLATA Bailey, Bot. Gaz. 13:82 (188&) ; Macoun, Cat. Canad. PI. 4:139 

 (1888), type loc. Mt. Mark, Vancouver Isl., Macoun. C. lusiilaefolia W. Boott var. ablaia Kiik. 

 in Engler, Pflzr. 4 20 :558 (1909). 



