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Plate XIII. Brewer’s type (No. 350) in the herbarium of the Uni- 
versity of. California. Photographed by Mr. W. G. Wright. Plate XX, 
Fig. 8. a. Achene. b. Seale. 
11. Carex auriculata, Bailey, Mem. Torr. Club, 1:19. C. 
Jamesii, W. Boott in Wats. Bot. Cal. 2:243, in part. 
Culms rough on the sharp angles, 4-5 dm. tall; leaves flat, 
4-5 mm. wide, not longer than the culms; staminate spikes 2-3, 
the terminal 3-4 em. long, pedunculate, the lower sessile, 1-2 
em. long; pistillate spike remote, sessile, 3-4 em. long, 5 mm. 
thick; scales nearly equalling the perigynia, oblong, obtuse; 
perigynia nerved, 3 mm. long; achenes oblong. - 
San Bernardino Mts., Bear Valley, 6,500 ft.; 3278 Parish, 
June 24, 1896. Vivian Creek, 7,500 ft. alt.; 6406 Grant, July 
23, 1904. The type was collected in 1852 by N. J. Anderson, 
at, Coloma, and Bolander’s 6208 and 6212, from Clark’s Ranch 
and the Yosemite, are also cited by Bailey. It appears to be a 
species of high altitudes in the Sierra Nevada, and this is its 
southern limit. 
12. Carex Barbare, Dewey in Torr. Bot. Mex. Bound. 2381. 
Bailey, Proc. Am. Acad. 22:90; Mem. Torr. Club, 1:44. Parish, 
Zoe, 2:321. C. aquatilis, W. Boott in Wats. Bot. Cal. 2:241. 
C. Prescottiana, W. Boott, |. e. 244. 
Culms stout, sharply triquetrous, scabrid on the angies; 
leaves 1 em. wide, lax, nearly as long as the culms; staminate 
spikelets 2-5, the terminal 5-12 em. long, the others approxi- 
mate, sessile, nearly as long or much shorter; pistillate spikes 
3-4, sessile, usually moderately distant, 6-10 em. long; scales 
equalling the perigynia, narrow, acute or subacute; perigynia 
nerveless, 3 mm. long; achenes light brown, ovoid, mucron- 
ulate. 
Growing in robust tussocks, often with a naked, trunk-like 
base 2-5 ft. high, on the borders of swamps in the Cismontane 
region below 2,500 ft. alt. Pasadena; 798 Braunton, 137 Grant. 
San Bernardino, 2144, 2145 Parish. North to Vancouver. The 
type was collected at Santa Barbara by Parry. 
Plate XIV. a. Perigynium x 8. Seale x 10. 
b. Perigynia ellipsoidal. 
y 13. Carex austromontana, n. sp. 
Culms slender 5-7 dm. tall; leaves flat, long-pointed, 5-7 mm. 
wide, about equalling the culms; staminate spikes 3-4, approxi- 
mate, the terminal 5 em. long, the others 2-3 em. long; pistil- 
late spikes mostly 2, the lower 5-8 cm. distant, 3-5 cm. long, 
6-8 mm. thick; scales shorter than the perigynia, narrow, lance- 
olate to oblong, obtuse or subacute; perigynia faintly nerved; 
achenes light brown, smooth, obovoid, contracted to a short 
neck, 2 mm. long. ; 
