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7,300 feet, Hall and Babcock 3457 ; mountain near Little Kern River, 

 10-11,000 feet, Purpus 5238*. 



37. Carex nova Bailey, Mem. Torr. Bot. Club, vol. 1, p. 10. 1889. 



C. atrata var. nigra Boott, 111. Car., vol. 3, p. 114, t. 363. W. Boott, in 

 Wats., Bot Calif., vol. 2, p. 239. 1880. 



Type locality. ' ' Mountains of Wyoming and Colorado and south- 

 ward. ' ' 



Range. California east to Wyoming and New Mexico. 



Zone. Arctic-alpine. 



Specimens examined. Mt. Gibbs, Yosemite, near summit in 

 rocks, 12,200 feet, Smiley 783; Unicorn Peak, Yosemite, 10,400 feet, 

 Smiley 811 ; Mt. Dana, 12,000 feet, Hall and Babcock 3610 ; Mt. God- 

 dard, 12,000 feet, Hall and Chandler 674; Wood's Peak, 10,000 feet, 

 Brewer 2122; Kaiser Peak, Fresno County, 10,100 feet, Smiley 640. 



Professor Bailey identified. Coville and Funston 2073 from above 

 timber line on Mt. Whitney with this species. 



38. Carex atrata var. discolor Bailey, Lond. Jour. Bot., vol. 26, 



p. 321. 1888. 



Type locality. ''Mountains of Colorado and Utah and south- 

 ward. ' ' 



Range. Mountains of western United States. 



Specimen examined. High mountain near Donner Pass, Torrey 

 549. 



39. Carex Whitney! Olney, Proc. Am. Acad., vol. 7, p. 394. 1868. 

 Type locality. "Yosemite Valley." 



Range. Sierra Nevada; mountains of northern California. 



Zone. Canadian. 



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Specimens examined. Donner Lake, Heller 6941 ; Meisner 's 

 Ranch, Eldorado County, 7,600 feet, Brainerd 123 ; soda springs, 

 Tuolumne River, Brewer 1778; Tuolumne meadows, open dry gravel 

 slope, 8,600 feet, R. A. Ware 2706c. 



40. Carex Rossii Boott, in Hook., Fl. Bor. Am., vol. 2, p. 222. 



1840. 



C. novae-angliae var. Eossii Bailey, Bot. Gaz., vol. 10, p. 207. 1885. 

 C. deflexa var. Sossii and var. media Bailey, Mem. Torr. Bot. Club, vol. 1, 

 p. 43. 1889. 



* These specimens belong to the high mountain dwarf form described as the 

 var. lenis Bailey (I.e.), which is connected to the typical form of stouter habit 

 by numerous intergrades. 



