80 SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES 
A PRELIMINARY SYNOPSIS OF THE SOUTH- 
ERN CALIFORNIA CYPERACEA. IX.* 
By S. B. Parish. 
++ Perigynium chartaceous inflated, contracted to a beak less 
than one third as long as the body; staminate spikes 2-6. 
5. Carex spissa, Bailey, Proc. Am. Acad. 22:70. 
Culms stout, 10-15 dm. tall, sharply angled, smooth; leaves 
carinate, 1-2 em. wide, scabrid on the margins and on the 
prominent ribs, about equalling the culms; lowest bract leafy, 
very long, the uppermost short and aristate from a scarious ” 
margined base; staminate spikes slender, 5-10 em. long; pis- 
tillate spikes, 3-6, densely flowered, evenly cylindrical, sub- 
squarrose, the lowest 10-15 em. long, remote, sometimes on a 
pedunele up to 25 em. long, the uppermost sessile, or nearly 
so, 3-6 em. long; scales exceeding the perigynia, narrow, purple 
margined, prolonged in a slender toothed tip, perigynia min- 
utely purple-dotted, obovoid, attenuate to the base, subcom- 
pressed, plano-convex in section, the body 3 mm. long, the 
teeth less than 1 mm.; achenes brown minutely papillose, oblong- 
obovoid, 3-angled, stipitate and mucronulate, not filling the 
perigynia. 
Growing in robust clumps on the banks of streams in the 
Coastal subregion below 500 ft. alt. Glendale; Hasse. Los 
Angeles; Davidson. Pasadena; Grant. San Juan Capistrano; 
Nevin. San Luis Rey; Poway; Parish. Ramona; Lakeside; 
Brandegee. Adjacent Lower California. Santa Maria; 
Brandegee. Guadalupe Canyon; Oreutt. The type was col- 
lected at San Diego, by Pringle. 
Perigynia brunneus, fuscous or purplish, glabrous; scales 
purple, or very dark brown, with a narrow white or green mid- 
vein, so that the spikes appear more or less dark in color. 
Perigynia thin and firm in texture, 3-angled tapering to a long 
point, bracts conspicuously sheathing at base. 
6. Carex ablata, Bailey, Bot. Gaz. 13:82. C. frigida of 
American authors, not Allioni, Fl. Ped. 2 :270. 
Cespitose; culms slender, scarcely angled, striate, smooth, 
about 1 dm. tall; basal leaves 2-3 mm. wide, long pointed, 5-10 
*Continued from Page 68 (this volume), No. 4, April, 1905. 
