236 CYPEBACEAE 



Wet places, mostly around lakes, Sierra Nevada from Tulare Co. to Nevada 

 Co., 5000 to 7200 ft. 



Loes. Kern Lake, Dudley 2044; South Fork San Joaquin Eiver, Hall $ Chandler 651; 

 Crescent Lake, Mariposa Co., Congdon; .Yosemite, Bolander 6198; Lake Mary, Mono Co., 

 Congdon; Silver Lake, Amador Co., Brewer 2099; Truekee, Hitchcock 258. 



Refa, CAREX PAUCICOSTATA Mackenzie, Erythea 8:74 (1922). C. interrupta Boeckl. var. 

 impressa Bailey, Mem. Torr. Club 1:18 (1889), type loc. Summit Camp, Placer Co., Kellogg. 

 C. lenticularis Boott in Bot. Cal. 2:242 (1880) in part, not Miehx. 



104. C. hindsii C. B. Clarke. Culms slender, 1 to 6. dm. high; blades 1.5 

 to 3 mm. wide, flat or channeled at base ; staminate spike solitary, long-peduncled ; 

 pistillate spikes 4 to 6, linear or oblong-linear, 1.5 to 4.5 cm. long, the numerous 

 perigynia appressed-ascending ; scales oblong, obtuse or acutish, blackish with 

 lighter center, much shorter than perigynia; perigynia 2.5 to 3.5 mm. long, 

 the upper part empty, abruptly black apiculate tipped. 



Wet places along the coast, Del Norte Co. (Crescent City, W. R. Dudley). 

 North to the Aleutian Isls. 



Eef. CAREX HINT>SII C. B. Clarke, Kew. Bull. Misc. Inf. add. ser. 8:70 (1908), type loc. 

 Columbia River, Hinds. 



105. C. kelloggii W. Boott. Culms slender, 3 to 7 dm. high; leaf -blades 

 light green, flat or channeled at base, 1.5 to 3 mm. wide ; staminate spike usually 

 solitary; pistillate spikes 3 to 5, sessile or nearly so, approximate, linear, 1.5 to 

 4 cm. long, often attenuate at base, the numerous perigynia appressed-ascending; 

 scales obtuse or acutish with broad light-colored center ; perigynia 2.5 mm. long, 

 the beak abruptly black apiculate tipped. 



Wet places, 4000 to 9400 ft., Sierra Nevada from Tulare Co. to Siskiyou Co. 

 North to Alaska, east to Colorado. 



Locs. Moraine Lake, Chagoopah Plateau, Dudley 2211 ; Giant Forest, Dudley 2989 ; North 

 Fork, Fresno Co., Griffiths 4572; Johnson Lake, Yosemite Park, Congdon; Snowy Cascade, 

 Eldorado Co., Brainerd 77; Jacksons Lake, Siskiyou Co., Dudley. 



Refs. CAREX KELLOGGII W. Boott in Bot Cal. 2:240 (1880), type loc. "Alta and from 

 Lake Tahoe to Bear Valley," Kellogg, Lemmon. C. dccidua W. Boott, l.c. 241, not F. Boott. 

 C. lenticularis W. Boott, I.e. 242 in part, not Miehx. 



106. C. sitchensis Prescott. Culms 6 to 12 dm. high, stout, sharply tri- 

 angular, strongly reddened at base ; leaf -blades flat or channeled at base, 2 to 

 9 mm. wide; staminate spikes 2 to 5, slender; pistillate spikes 3 to 5, strongly 

 separate, linear-cylindric, 3 to 9 cm. long, very many-flowered ; scales lanceolate, 

 sharp-pointed; perigynia ovate or oval, 3 to 3.5 mm. long, broadest near middle, 

 not red-dotted, apiculate. 



Near the coast from Santa Cruz Co. to Del Norte Co., thence easterly to 

 Butte Co. North to Alaska. Very local with us. 



Locs. Santa Cruz, Wood 599; Twelve Mile House near San Jose, Bolander; Crescent City, 

 Dudley; Sisson, Jepson 55a; Clear Creek, Butte Co., H. E. Brown 91. 



Refs. CAREX SITCHENSIS Preseott, Mem. Acad. St. Petersb. ser. 6, 2:169 (1832), type 

 loc. Sitka, Alas. C. aquatilis W. Boott in Bot, Cal. 2:241 (1880), not Wahl. 



107. C. aquatilis Wahl. Culms 2 to 7 dm. high, reddened at base; leaf- 

 blades 2 to 6 mm. wide ; staminate spikes 1 or 2, slender ; pistillate spikes 2 to 4, 

 sessile or short-peduncled, not aggregated, linear, 1.5 to 6 cm. long; scales oblong- 

 obovate to lanceolate, obtuse or acutish ; perigynia elliptic-obovoid, 2.5 mm. long, 

 broadest below apex, red-dotted, minutely beaked. 



Swampy grounds, Modoc Co. (Moulton, Warner Mts., Griffiths & Hunter 

 474). North to Alaska, east to Quebec. 



Refs. CAREX AQUATILIS Wahl. in Vet. Akad. Nya. Handl. Stockholm 24:165 (1803), type 

 loc. Lapland; Kiik. in Engler, Pflzr. 4 20 :309, fig. 48A-D (1909), not C. aquatilis W. Boott in 

 Bot. Cal. 2:241 (1880). 



