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a pile of dry leaves, you will be precipitated into a hidden 
spring or a rock-pool. Necessarily your progress is slow, but 
the palms tower overhead, and from every crag their leaves are 
silhouetted against the sky, while you seem to hear the sound 
ef that old sea which broke so long ago over the white sands 
at the foot of these very cliffs. 
Ayalon, Santa Catalina Island. 
A PRELIMINARY SYNOPSIS OF THE SOUTH- 
ERN CALIFORNIA CYPERACE:. ViIII.* 
By S. B. Parish. 
* Perigynia Stramineous or greenish, as are the scales, so that 
the spikes appear light in color ; the long beak bidentate; stigmas 
3, pistellate spikes erect, except No. 2, bracts not auriculate. 
+ Perigynia thin and firm in texture, tapering into a beak one- 
third as long as the body ; staminate sprke solitary, except No. 1. 
++ Perigynia glabrous, inflated and not filled by the achene. 
“1. Carex utriculata Boott; Hook. Fl. Bor. Am. 2:221:W. 
Boott im. Wats.--Bot; Cal. 2):252. (Britt. & Br. 2 aie 
Bailey, Bot. Gaz. 9:122; Mem. Torr. Club, 1:59. C. rostrata 
utriculata Bailey, Proc. Am. Acad. 22:67. 
Stoloniferous; culms stout, scabrid, 5-10 dm. tall; leaves flat, 
5-8 mm. wide, nodulose, scabrid, exceeding the culms; bracts 
similar, the lowest exceeding the culm; staminate spikes 2-3; 
pistillate spikes 2-4, cylindrical, densely-flowered, 34 em. long, 
sessile, or the lowest pedunculate; scales equalling or exceed- 
ing the perigynia, lanceolate, prolonged to an accuminate sea- 
brid tip; perigynia ovoid to ovoid-oblong, few-nerved, the body 
2-3 mm. long, and the beak half as long, its teeth erect; 
achenes oblong. 
Common in wet meadows, Bear Valley, 6,500 ft. alt., in the 
San Bernardino Mts.; 1275a Parish. Bluff Lake, 7,400 ft. alt.; 
Parish. This is the southern known limit of the species, 
whence it extends north through the Sierra Nevada to British 
Columbia; also in the Rocky Mts., and in northern Atlantic 
States. 
C. utriculata minor Boott.1.¢. Leaves narrower, and spikes 
slenderer and shorter. 
Bear Valley, with the species; 1575 Parish. 
*Continued from Page 52 (This Volume), No. 3, March, 1905. 
