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the lower long-peduucled ; scales purplish-black with white often excurrent mid- 

 vein; perigynia flattened, ovoid, sessile, 4 mm. long, abruptly minutely beaked, 

 the beak bidentulate ; achene short-stipitate. 



High Sierra Nevada, 6000 to 11,000 ft., from Tulare Co. to Siskiyou Co. 

 North to Alaska, east to Montana. 



Locs. Mt. Whitney, Copeland 47; Minarets, Cong don; Mt. Dana, Cong don; Carson Pass, 

 Brewer 2106; Pyramid Peak, Brewer 2136; Lassen Peak, Brewer 2186; Caribou Peak, Siskiyou 

 Co., Dudley. 



Befs. CAREX SPECTABILIS Dew. Am. Jour. Sci. 29:248, pi. X, f. 76 (1836), type from 

 Eocky Mts. of Brit. Am. C. invisa Bailey, Proe. Am. Acad. 22:82 (1886), type from Summit 

 Camp, Nevada Co., Kellogg. C. podocarpa W. Boott in Bot. CaL 2:245 (1880), not R. Br. 

 C. tolmiei Boott var. invisa Kiik. in Engler, Pflzr. 4 20 :412 (1909). 



92. C. raynoldsii Dew. Culms 2 to 7.5 dm. high; leaf-blades 3 to 8 mm. 

 wide ; terminal spike 1 to 2 cm. long, the lateral pistillate spikes 2 or 3, approxi- 

 mate or lowest separate, peduncled, erect, oblong, 1 to 2 cm. long, closely 15 to 

 40-flowered; perigynia oblong-oval, round in cross-section, 3.5 to 4.5 mm. long, 

 prominently ribbed and slenderly nerved, rounded at base, the very short beak 

 minutely bidentate. 



Mountain meadows and bogs, Sierra Nevada from Tulare Co. to Siskiyou Co., 

 7000 to 8000 ft.. North to Canada. 



Loes. Tobias Mdw., Tulare Co., Dudley 616; Peregoy Mdws., Yosemite Park, Jepson 

 4340; Tuolumne Mdws., Jepson 3259; Calaveras Big Trees, Hillebrand 2323 (in part); Sum- 

 mit, Placer Co., Heller 9854; Medicine Lake, Siskiyou Co., Goldsmith 5a. 



Eefs. CAREX RAYNOLDSII Dew. Am. Jour. Sci. ser. 2, 32:39 (1861), type loe. Pierre's Hole, 

 Snake River Valley, Ida., Hayden; Mackenzie, Erythea 8:68, fig. 36 (1922). 



93. C. bifida Boott. Culms sharply triangular, slender, smooth, 4 to 8 dm. 

 high, the basal sheaths purplish-tinged; leaf -blades 1.75 to 3.5 mm. wide; ter- 

 minal spike 1.5 to 3 cm. long, staminate or with some perigynia ; pistillate spikes 

 3 to 5, erect, short-peduncled or sessile, oblong, 8 to 18 mm. long, with 20 to 40 at 

 length spreading perigynia; scales ovate, sharp-pointed; perigynia narrowly 

 ovate, flattened triangular, about 10-nerved, 3 to 4.5 mm. long, the beak 0.5 to 



1 nun. long, the teeth minute, rough and purplish-tinged within. 



Tehachapi Range ; Coast Ranges from San Luis Obispo Co. to Humboldt Co. 

 North to southern Oregon. 



Locs. Tehachapi, Greene; San Luis Obispo, Jones 3235; Santa Lucia Peak, Jepson 4739; 

 Los Gatos, Heller 8570; Spring Valley, San Mateo Co., Congdon: Mt. Tamalpais, Piper 6430; 

 Los Guilicos Valley, Sonoma Co., Bioletti; Red Mt., Mendoeino Co., Bolander 6476, 



Refs. CAREX BIFIDA Boott, ex Olney, Proc. Am. Acad. 7:394 (1868), type loe. Salinas 

 Valley, Brewer 574; Mackenzie, Erythea 8:69, fig. 37 (1922). C. serratodens W. Boott in Bot. 

 Cal. 2:245 (1880), type from Cal. C. aequa C. B. Clarke, Kew Bull. Misc. Inf. add. ser. 8:86 

 (1908), type from San Mateo Co., Baker 811. 



94. C. buxbaumii Wahl. Densely cespitose, but with long stolons; culms 



2 to 9 dm. high, rough above, slender; leaf-blades 2 to 4 mm. wide, glaucous- 

 green ; spikes usually 3 or 4, erect, 8 to 40 mm. long, sessile or short-peduncled ; 

 scales awned, dark purplish-tinged, exceeding perigynia; perigynia 3 to 4 mm. 

 long, glaucous-green, obovoid, lightly many-nerved, the apex minutely bidentate. 



Bogs in the high Sierra Nevada of Tuolumne Co. (Tuolumne Soda Sprs., 

 Bolander 5056). North to Alaska, east to the Atlantic. Eurasia. 



Ref. CAREX BUXBAUMII Wahl. Vet, Akad. Hadl. Stockholm 24:163 (1803), based on 

 plants of Sweden and Lapland. 



95. C. helleri Mackenzie. Very densely cespitose, the culms 0.5 to 3 dm. 

 high ; leaf -blades 2 to 3.5 mm. wide ; spikes oblong, 10 to 20 mm. long, densely 

 25- to 50-flowered ; scales acuminate or aristate, much narrower than perigynia ; 

 perigynia broadly oval to suborbicular, much flattened, 2.5 to 3.5 mm. long, 

 nerveless, abruptly beaked, the beak 0.25 mm. long, bidentate; achenes short- 

 stipitate. 



High montane, 8500 to 13,600 ft. : Sierra Nevada from Tulare Co. to Eldorado 

 Co. ; White Mts. East to Nevada. 



