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thick (an inch long and half or more as broad), sessile, or the 

 lowest sometimes short stalked, approximated or aggregated ; 

 perigynium turgid and many-nerved, shining, straw-colored, thin,' 

 ascending, produced into a conspicuous and toothed beak ; scale 



short ovate, blunt or muticous and hispidulous at the tip. Port 



Chusan, Corea, 1859, C. Wilford, No. 927. Hb. Boott., Hb. 

 Kew. and Hb. Berol. Its nearest ally is C. bullata, Schk. 



■^9. — Carex Californica. 



C. polytnorpha, W. Boott, Bot. Calif, ii. 247 (1880), v. s. 

 Hb. Torr. and Hb. Gray. 



Differs from C. polyijiorpha, Muhl., in Its smaller size and more 

 slender habit, and much narrower leaves, and particularly by Its 

 nearly entire and much shorter beaked perigynla. (170a). Men- 

 docino, California, Bolandcr, 4741 - 



10 — Carex albida. 



C. Chcrokeensis,^. Boott, Bot. Calif ii. 248 (1880), v. s. 



Allied to C. gynodynama^ OIney, and C, iu^niina, Olney : 



Leaves narrow, smooth or slightly rough on the edges ; spikes 

 scattered, very short (about half an inch), whitish, the two stam- 

 inate stalked, the pistillate sessile or nearly so; perigynium very 

 gradually beaked (lance-ovate), the teeth small and erect, incon- 

 spicuously nerved, rough on the angles above ; scales white- 

 hyaline with a very thin margin, broadly ovate and obtuse or 

 very abruptly short-pointed, the tip hairy, shorter than the peri- 



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gynium. (94a). California, Santa Rosa Creek, Thurber^ Bige- 

 lotv (Hb. Boott. and Hb. Torr.) 



II. — Carex tertenuis. 



One of the Polystachym : Plant bright green, the lower 

 sheaths dark brown, slender, a foot to a foot and a half high, the 

 culm smooth ; leaves long-pointed, finely and sharply serrate on 

 the margins, usually somewhat shorter than the culm ; bracts 

 sheathing, the lowest leafy and surpassing the culm; spikes four 



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pedun- 



cles an inch or so long, divergent or drooping, alternately flow- 

 ered below, the staminaie portion (at the apex) short; perigy- 

 nium elliptic, trigonous, pointed at both ends, sometimes slightly 

 curved, the orifice entire, smooth ^nd green, finely striate, some- 

 what longer than the broad and brown abruptly rough-awned 

 scale. (io8a). Orizaba, Mexico, Mulier 1337 and [338, Hb. 



Kew., Hb. Paris, and Hb. Torr. * 



