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Borders of swamps in the Cismontane region, below 3,000 ft. 
alt.; apparently rare. San Bernardino Valley, and Edgar Can- 
yon, in the San Bernardino Mts.; Parish. A widely distributed 
species, from the British Possessions to the Mexican border. 
A sedge collected in 1891, by Davidson, at Los Angeles, has 
pistillate spikes only 2-3 mm. thick; scales oblong, the midvein 
excurrent from the emarginate apex as a short cusp, shorter 
than the perigynia, which are broader, and shorter beaked. 
Probably distinct, but further material is needed. 
y 4, Carex Yosemitana Bailey, Mem. Torr. Club, 1. 8. C. 
Sartwelliana, W. Boott. in Wats. Bot. Cal. 2:249. 
Ceespitose; culms rather slender, 3-angled, slightly seabrid 
above, 8-10 dm. tall; leaves hirsute, 5-6 mm. wide, shorter than 
the culms; bracts slender, the lowest exceeding the culm; 
staminate spike 5-6 em. long; pistillate spikes 2-4, cylindrical, 
sessile, 2-3 em. long, 5 mm. thick; scales brown with green 
midvein, hispid, acute, or the lower prolonged to a rough awn, 
as broad as the perigynia, and equalling or exceeding them; 
perigynia ovoid, acute at base, the body 2 mm. long, gradually 
narrowed into a beak 1 mm. long, the teeth short and erect; 
achenes pale brown, granulate-roughened. 
On a dry slope, Strawberry Valley, 6,000 ft. alt., San Jacinto 
Mts.; Parish. San Jacinto Mts.; Davidson. Reported other- 
wise only from the high mountains of Mariposa Co.; where 
it was collected long ago by Bolander and Brewer, and in 
recent years by Congdon; but probably occurrimg at inter- 
mediate points. — 
( To be continued.) 
