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29. J- xiphioides Mey. (Fig. 44 f, g.) Stems ancipital, 1V 2 to 3 feet high; 

 leaves equitant, more or less obviously septate, iy 2 to 2 1 /> lines wide, 6 to 14 

 inches long ; panicle 2% to 7 inches long ; heads 6 to 11-flowered, discrete or more 

 or less congested; perianth segments lanceolate, subulate-acuminate, the inner a 

 little shorter than the outer; stamens 6; stigmas barely exserted; capsule nar- 

 rowly cylindric, abruptly acute or somewhat beaked, equaling or exceeding the 

 perianth ; seeds narrowly ovoid, apiculate. 



Coastal region, salt marshes and moist lands. Southern California to Hum- 

 boldt Co. and north to Oregon. 



Loca. Malibu Canon, Los Angeles Co., Barber; Victorville, Parish 10568; East Oakland, 

 Harriet Walker 660 (infl, congested); Berkeley, Jepson 8188; Stege, Davy 4076; Laribee 

 Creek, Humboldt Co., Tracy 4671 ; North Fork Eel Biver near north border Mendocino Co., 

 Goddard 636; Honey Lake Valley, Jepson 7794. 



Var. auratus Engelm. Stems slender, lower; heads yellow. Central California: Suisun 

 marshes, Jepson 3a; Mt. Diablo, Brewer 838; Saratoga, Davy 293 (transition to species). 



Kefs. JUNCUS XIPHIOIDES Mey. Syn. Jun. 50 (1823), type loc. Monterey, Haerike. Var. 

 littoralis Engelm. Trans. St. Louis Acad. 2:481 (1868), the typical coast form, Var. AURATUS 

 Engelm. I.e., type loc, Mt. Diablo, Brewer. 



30. J. ensif olius Wikstr. Similar to J. xiphioides ; stems 1 to 2 feet high ; 

 heads fewer, dense, dark-colored, many-flowered, 3 to 4 lines broad; perianth 

 larger, dark brown, equaling the acute capsule ; stamens mostly 3 (sometimes 6). 



Wet granitic gravel, Sierra Nevada, 4000 to 9600 feet, north to Siskiyou 

 Co., thence southwesterly tc Mendocino Co. Far north to Alaska. 



Locs. Merced Big Trees, Hall $ Bdbcoclc 3415 ; Kennedy Mdwg., Tuolumne Co., A. L. 

 Grant 116; Soda Springs Canon, Kennedy Lake, Tuolumne Co., A. L. Grant 475, 480; Sonora 

 Pass, A. L. Grant 145; Strawberry, Tuolumne Co., Jepson 6504; Eagle Lake, Baker $ Nut- 

 ting; Jess Valley, Modoc Co., Jepson 7954, 7985; Oro Fino, Siskiyou Co., Butler 1784; Quartz 

 Valley, Siskiyou Co., Butler 1832; White Thorn Valley, s. Humboldt Co., Tracy 5027; Ft. 

 Bragg, W. C. Mathews 156, 160. Unalaska, Jepson 276. 



Refs. JUNCUS ENSIFOLIUS Wikstr. Vet. Akad. Handl. Stockh. 2:274 (1823), type loc. 

 Unalaska. J. xiphioides var. triandrus Engelm. Trans. St. Louis Acad. 2:481 (1868), type 

 loc. Yosemite Valley, Bolander 6026. 



31. J. phaeocephalus Engelm. (Fig. 44h, i.) Stems % to l 1 /^ f eet high, 

 erect, leafy, ancipitally compressed, not winged, arising from stout elongated 

 rootstocks; leaves y 2 to l 1 /^ lines wide, compressed, equitant, ribbed by trans- 

 verse septa, sometimes very distinctly so ; ligules none ; flowers in terminal heads, 

 the inflorescence usually barely exceeding the leaves; heads 1 to 3, solitary or 2 

 in a place; perianth dark brown, I l / 2 to 2 lines long; style long; stigmas ex- 

 serted; capsule long acuminate, equaling or slightly exceeding the perianth; 

 seeds ovoid, the longitudinal ridges connected by similar transverse ones. 



Meadows and borders of swamps, coast region from Los Angeles Co. to 

 Mendocino Co. and north to Oregon. 



Locs. Los Angeles, Hasse; Carmel, Ferguson 291; Pajaro hills, Chandler; Lake Pilarcitos, 

 San Mateo Co., Davy 756; Belmont, Davy 751; Lone Mt., San Francisco, Kellogg; Peralta 

 Park, Berkeley, Davy. 



Var. paniculatus Engelm, (Fig. 44 j, k.) Stems 1 to 3 feet high from a stout rootstock; 

 heads few-flowered, many to numerous in a loose compound panicle; perianth segments very 

 dark; styles long-exserted. Valleys and mountain flats, Coast Eanges, Sierra Nevada, and 

 cismontane Southern California. 



Loes. Tauquitz Valley, Mt. San Jaeinto, Jepson 2311; San Bernardino Valley, Parish 

 2029; South Fork Santa Ana Eiver, Hall 7609; Huckleberry Mdw., Kaweah Eiver basin, 

 Hopping 416; Warm Springs, Alameda Co., Jepson lOOb; Alviso, Elmer; Berkeley, Davy 753; 

 Alderney, Marin Co., Jepson 8266; Vaeaville, Jepson 4244 (det. F. V. C.). 



Eefs. JUNCUS PHAEOCEPHALUS Engelm. Trans. St. Louis Acad. 2:484 (1868), type loc. 

 central California sea-coast; Buch. in Engler, Pflzr. 436 : 17S, fig. 88 (1906). Var. glomeratus 

 Engelm. I.e. the usual form of the species. Var. PANICULATUS Engelm. l.c. type loc. Napa 

 Valley, Bigelow. 



2. LUZULA DC. WOODRUSH 



Plants of dry or high ground in open or shady or sometimes moist places. 

 Stems hollow, leafy, simple, slender. Leaves softer and flatter than in Juncus, 



