21 



head browner and loose; spikes much fewer, large, spreading^ 

 relatively loosely flowered ; perigynium rough on the angles 

 above, broad ; styles shorter. Near Utica, Montana, R. S. Will' 



tarns, 1888, In this plant all the flowers and scales stand out 



distinctly and loosely, while in the species they are compacted 



into a nearly continuous mass. 



/ 30. — Carex specifica. 



i 



C. scoparia, Schk., var. ftilva, W. Boott, mostly, Rot. Cal. ii. 



237 (1880) V. s. Hb. Gray. ; Bailey, Proc. Amer. Acad. 



Arts and Sci. xxii. 148 (1886). 



Tall and stout (2 to 3 feet) ; culm broad, smooth, longer than 

 the broad and short pointed leaves, much less stiff than in C. 

 Liddoni\ spikes densely aggregated into a large ovoid or oblong 



% 



lower ones distinct, 



subtended by broad but inconspicuous short and scale-like bracts, 

 fulvous and dull in color; perigynium long-ovate, prominently 

 nerved on both sides, margined, the edges rough, prolonged into 

 a slender and minutely toothed beak, but half filled by the achen- 

 ium; scales thin and brown, acute or muticous, a little shorter 



than the perigynium, (276a.) California, Silver Valley, head 

 of Toulumne River, and Ebbett's Pass, Brewer 1969, 1774? 2020, 

 2079, Soda Springs, Nevada County, M, E, Jones, San Bernard- 

 ino Mts., Parish, The greater size, broad culm and leaves, 

 thick head, firmer perigynia, duller color, and other characters 

 remove the species from C, Liddoni, its nearest relative. Var. in- 

 certa of the latter species, however, may belong to C. specifica 

 rather than to C. Liddoiti, 



31. — Carex STRAMINEA, Willd. in litt.* in Schk., Riedgr. 49, f. 



34 (1801) v. s. Hb. Willd. 

 C, straniiiiea, var. minor, D 



Journ. (I.) xi. 158 



(1826). 

 C, festucacea, \d,v. tenera, Carey, Gray's Man. ist ed. 545 



(1848). 

 C. tenera, Sartw. Exsicc. No. 45 (1848), v. s,; Olney, Exsicc. 



fasc. ii. No. 13 (1871), V. s, 

 C, sirafuinea, var. tenera, Boott, 111. 120, t. 384 (1862). 

 C. tenera. Dew., forma erecta^ Olney, Exsicc. fasc. ii. No. 14 



(1871), v. s. 



Willdenow should in like manner be cited as authority for C. Norvegua. 



