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108. C. barbarae Dew. Culms 3 to 10 dm. high, stout, sharply triangular, 

 serrulate at least in inflorescence ; leaves 7 to 12, the sheaths brownish-puberulent, 

 the blades light-green, thick, flat or channeled, 3.5 to 9 mm. wide, serrulate, the 

 middle ones much reduced, filamentose ; staminate spikes 1 or 2, narrowly linear ; 

 pistillate spikes 2 to 5, sessile or short-peduncled, oblong- or linear-cylindrie, 

 2.5 to 8 cm. long, reddish-purple with lighter center ; perigynia ascending, oval, 

 obscurely nerved, 3 to 4.5 mm. long, at length brownish, often granular. 



Mountains of coastal Southern California, Sierra Nevada foothills, Great 

 Valley, and Coast Ranges. One of the most characteristic California species 

 from about 20 to 4000 ft. North to Oregon. 



Locs. Southern Calif ornia :' Jamacha, Cliandler 5262; Waterman Canon, San Bernardino 

 Mts., Parish 1053; Pasadena, McClatchie; Santa Barbara, Parry. Sierra Nevada and Great 

 Valley: Kern Canon, Heller 7773; Visalia, Abrams 5382; Kings Eiver, Diulley ; Marysville, 

 Wooton; Mule Creek, lone, Braunton 1093. Coast Ranges: Arroyo Seco, Santa Lucia Mts., 

 Brewer 683; Berkeley Hills, Jepson 4172; Mt. Diablo, Abrams 5723; Mark West Creek, 

 Bolander; Clear Lake, Bolander 2609; Ukiah, Barrett; Sisson, Jepson 57a, 



Refs. CAREX BARBARAS Dew. Bot. Mex. Bound. 231 (1858), type loe. Santa Barbara, 

 Parry; Mackenzie, Erythea 8:77, fig. 42 (1922). C. laciniata Boott in Benth. PI. Hartw. 341 

 (1857), name only; 111. Car. 4:175, pi. 594 (1867) in part, type from banks of the Sacra- 

 mento, Hartweg 2022. C. w'dlcesii Olney, Bot. Wilkes Exped. 2:477, pi. 17 (1874), type from 

 banks of the Sacramento, Wilkes. C. lacunarum Holm, Am. Jour. Sei. ser. 4, 17:303, f. 12-13 

 (1904), type from Sebastopol, Heller 5797. C. magnificat. Dew. var. lacunarum Kiik. in Engler, 

 Pflzr. 4 20 :366 (1909). C. nudata var. anomala Kiik. I.e. 337, as to Cal. spms. C. prescottiana 

 Olney in Bot. King 369 (1871) in part. 



109. C. schottii Dew. Culms 10 .to 15 dm. high, sharply triangular, very 

 rough above ; leaf -blades flat with revolute margins, serrulate, the lower sheaths 

 hispidulous dorsally ; staminate spikes about 3, elongate-linear, 8 to 14 cm. long ; 

 pistillate spikes mostly 3, sessile or nearly so, elongate-linear, 11 to 14 cm. long ; 

 scales narrowly lanceolate, acute or obtusish, purplish-black with broad 3-ribbed 

 lighter center; perigynia appressed plano-convex, obovate, 3 mm. long, greenish 

 straw-colored, strongly several-nerved on both faces, the beak 0.25 mm. long. 



Coastal Southern California and north to Monterey Co., 20 to 2500 ft. 



Locs. Santa Ana, Geis; Waterman Canon, San Bernardino Mts., Parish 2144; Pasadena, 

 Geo. B. Grant 137; Castroville, Elmer 4386. 



Eefs. CAREX SCHOTTII Dew. Bot. Mex. Bound. 231 (1858), type loc. Santa Barbara, Parry. 

 C. barbarae Parish, Bull. S. Cal. Acad. 4:108, pi. 14 (1905), not Dew. 



110. C. senta Boott. Culms 4 to 9 dm. high, sharply triangular; leaves 6 

 to 12, the middle sheaths sparingly hispidulous dorsally and filamentose ven- 

 trally, the blades 3 to 5 mm. wide, the middle ones much reduced; terminal spike 

 staminate, peduncled, 3 to 4.5 cm. long, with 1 or 2 smaller ones at base; pistillate 

 spikes 1 to 3, sessile or short-peduncled, 2.5 to 5 cm. long; scales oblong-ovate 

 or lanceolate, obtuse to acuminate, purplish-black with lighter center; perigynia 

 ovate, conspicuously several-nerved on both faces, green or straw-colored, often 

 dark-tinged and frequently strongly red-dotted, granular, the beak 0.25 mm. 

 long. 



Coastal counties from Alameda Co. to San Diego Co. ; Sierra Nevada from 

 Amador Co. to Tulare Co. East to Arizona. 



Locs. Coast Ranges: Oakland, Bolander 1566d; Stanford, Schofield; Nacimiento Creek, 

 Monterey Co., Dudley. Sierra Nevada: Amador Co., Hansen 636; Mariposa, Congdon; Giant 

 Forest, Dudley 2996. Southern California: Santa Paula, Cobb 135; Los Angeles, Bigelow; 

 San Jacinto Mts., Eeed 2558; Laguna, San Diego Co., Sohoenefeldt 3594. 



Refs. CAREX SENTA Boott, 111. Car. 4:174 (1867), type loc. Santa Inez Mts., Brewer 350. 

 C. auriculata Bailey, Mem. Torr. Club 1:19 (1889), type loc. Coloma, Andersson. C. austro- 

 montana Parish, Bull. S. Cal. Acad. 4:108, pi. 15 (1905), type loc. San Bernardino Mts., 

 Parish 2485. C. jamesii W. Boott in Bot. Cal. 2:243 (1880) in small part, not Torr. (7. 

 bislwllii C. B. Clarke, Kew Bull. Misc. Inf. Add. ser. 8:70 (1908), type from Yosemite, Brewer 

 1648. C. nudata W. Boott, f. scssiliflora Kuk. in Engler, Pflzr. 4 20 :337 (1909), type from 

 Amador Co., Hansen 636. C. nudata Kiik. Lc. in part, not W. Boott. C. jamesii var. austro- 

 montana Kiik. l.e. 318. C. jamesii var. W. Boott in Bot. Cal. 2:243 (1880). C. angustata 

 W. Boott, I.e. 242 in part, not F. Boott. 



