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without blade-bearing cataphylla, while those- having at least 

 some cataphylla with blades are separated, but only with the 

 rank of a form. They all affect soils which are damp, or even 

 wet in winter, but which may, or may not, become dry in sum- 

 mer. They are common throughout the Cismontane region, 

 ascend the mountains to 7000 feet altitude, and are found in 

 permanently damp places in the deserts. 



Inyo county. Furnace creek, June, 1891, Coville and I-un- 

 ston 226. 



I 'en/urn county. Mt. Pinos, 5200 feet altitude, June, 1905, 

 Hall 641 2. Potrero San Emigdio, June, 1905, Hall 6 J? 2. Hit- 

 ter creek, 1800 feet altitude, July, 1905, Hall 6j6p. 



Los Angeles county. Los Angeles river, April, 1 901, Ab- 

 rams 1445; September, 1902, Braunton 666. 



San Bernardino county. San Bernardino Valley, June, 

 1908, Parish 6(449. Bloomington, May, 1891, Parish 4J2;. 

 Bear Valley, 6500 feet altitude, Parish 1458. Upper Santa Ana, 

 6700 feet altitude, July, 1906, Hall jj4J. Big Meadows, 6800 

 feet altitude, Hall /j/j. 



Riverside county. Elsinore, May, 1901, Mrs. J. D. Abrams. 



7a. JUNCUS BALTICUS Willd. forma mexicanus (Willd.) comb, 

 now /. balticus Willd. var. mexicanus kuuize, Rev. 

 Gen. 2: part 3, 320. 1898. J. mexicanus Willd. in R. & 

 S. Linn. Syst. Veg. VII. ed. 16 1: 178. 1829. /. com- 

 pressm H. B. K. Nov. Gen. et Sp. 1: 235. 1815. 

 Some or all of the uppermost basal sheath- beariug a seapi- 

 form blade. 



Ventura county. Sespe, 2500 feet altitude, June, 1908, 

 Abrams and McGregor 180. 



Inyo county. Haiwee meadows, 3800 feet altitude, June, 

 1906, Mall and Chandler fjjf. Seymour meadows, 581x1 feet 

 altitude, Hall ^626. 



San Bernardino county. San Bernardino valley, May, 1901, 

 May, 1906, Parish 4J2j y 694^. Mill creek, June, 1881, Parish 

 990. Mojave desert, Pringle. Newberry, Mojave deseit, May, 

 1906, Flail ft/ 22. 



