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2. Carex comosa Boott, Trans. Linn. Soc. 20:117. Britt. 
& Br. Ill. Fl. 1:301. C. pseudocyperus comosa, W. Boott in Wats. 
Bot. Cal. 2:252. Jepson, Fl. W. M. Cal. 90. C. pseudocy- 
perus Americana, Hochst Herb. Unio. Itin. (1837). MacMill, 
Met. Minn. Val. 126. Bailey, Mem. Torr. Club, 5:89. Abrams, 
Fl. Los. Ang. 73. 
Cespitose; culms stout, 5-10 dm. tall, very rough on the 
Sharp angles; leaves 6-10 mm. wide, nodulose, the upper, 
and the similar bracts, exceeding the culms; staminate spike 
2-8 em. long; pistillate spikes 3-5, cylindrical, 5-7 em. long, 8-10 
mm. thick, approximate, drooping on short peduneles; scales 
shorter than the perigynia, ovate at base, attenuate to a rough 
awn; perigynia ovoid-ellipsoidal, prominently many-ribbed, 
stipitate, and at maturity reflexed, the body 3 mm. long, taper- 
ing into a long slender beak 1.5 mm. long, the divergent and 
recurved subulate teeth as long as the beak; achenes sharply 
triquetrous, 1.5 mm. long. 
Perhaps only a waif. A single plant, growing in swamy soil, 
by a roadside, near San Bernardino, 1882; Parish. Reported 
by Davidson, in Pl. Los Ang. Co. 30, from Burbank, but there 
is no specimen in his herbarium. In the Atlantic States from 
Newfoundland to Louisiana; on the Pacifie coast from Oregon 
to San Francisco. 
m ++ Perigynia hirsute, obovoid, completely filled by the achene. 
“ 3. Carex lanuginosa Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 2:175. Britt. & 
Br. Ill. Fl. 1:305. C. filiformis lanuginosa B.S. P. Prel. Cat. 
N. Y. 63. Bailey, Mem. Torr. Club, 4:78. C. filiformis latifolia 
Boeckl. Linnea, 41:309. Bailey, Proc. Am. Acad. 22:74; Mem. 
Torr. Club, 1:64. W. Boott in Wats» Bot. Cal. 2:250. Abrams, 
Fi. Los Ang. 74. 
Culms tufted, smooth, 5-10 dm. tall; leaves flat, rough on 
the edges, 3-5 em. wide, equalling the culms; bracts similar, the 
lowest exceeding the culms, the upper narrow; staminate spike 
3-4 em. long, often with 1-2 short spikes at base; pistillate 
spikes 2-5, cylindrical, 1-3 em. long, 7-8 mm. thick, sessile, or 
the lowest remote on a short peduncle; scales longer than the 
perigynia, glabrous, narrowed to a rough awn; perigynia 
fuscous, the body 3 mm. long, shortly stipitate at base, tapering 
into a beak 1 mm. long, the teeth glabrous, erect, 0.5 mm. long; 
achenes olivanceous, smooth. 
