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Santa Clara county, in wet clay along- a road, elevation about 

 600 feet. Mr. Kenneth K. Mackenzie, to whom this was sent 

 for determination, writes as follows: "In the Botany of Califor- 

 nia this is placed in a section, the distincruishing characteristic 

 of which is that the terminal portion of the uppermost spike is 

 pistillate, while the lower portion is staminate. As a matter of 

 fact the terminal spike is often entirely staminate or has but few 

 perigonia developed. This has resulted in confusion, the spe- 

 cies having in at least one instance been distributed as Carex 

 Lemmoni W. Bbott. In addition to your specimen, I have .<;een 

 specimens from Crystal Springs Lake, San Mateo count\'; Louia 

 Prieta peak, Santa Clara count)-; Los Guilucos valley, Sonoma 

 county; Tamalpais; and Tiburon." 



JUNCACEAE Dumort. Comm. Bot. 66. 1822. 



JUNCOIDES COMOSUM (E. Meyer) Sheldon, Minn. Bot. Stud. 1: 

 64. 1894. 



Luzida comosa E. Meyer, Syn. Luz. n. 18. 1823. 



Ltizula capellaris Steud. Syn. PI. Glum. 3: 293. 1855. 



No. 8435, collected April 13, on the summit of the Santa 

 Cruz mountains, Santa Cruz county, at Deer Ridge Farm, grow- 

 ing abundantly on a bank near shrubs, the exposure norlhevn, 

 elevation about 3000 feet. 



JUNCUS occiDENTAUS (Coville) Wiegand, Bull. Torr. Club, '^7: 

 521. 1900.' 



Juncus tenuis occidentalis Coville, Proc. Biol. Soc.^Vash. 

 10: 129. 1896. 



No. 851 1, collected May 7, along the Internrban tracks near 

 the crossing of Los Gatos creek not far from Campbell, Santa 

 Clara county, growing in moist ground, elevation about 380 feet. 

 Locally plentiful, the plants in large tufts. The t}pe was col- 

 lected at San Francisco by Bolander. It is not uncommon in 

 the Bav region. 



