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x * * * Spikes 1, staminate above; pistillate flowers few; per- 
wgynta firm in texture; stigmas 3; achems closely conformed to the 
perigynta; bracts wanting. 
+ Prstillate flowers loosely disposed and alternately appressed 
to the flexuous rachis. 
¥ 18. Carex multicaulis, Bailey, Bot. Gaz. 9:117: Proce. Am. 
Acad. 22:128. C, Geyeri; W. Boott in Wats. Bot. Cal. 2:229, 
in part. 
Culms stiff and erect, nearly smooth, obscurely angled, 3-6 
dm. tall; leaves green or glaucescent, merely seabridous on the 
margins, 1-2 mm. wide, those of the culms 3-5 em. long, the 
barren leaves nearly as long as the culms; staminate part of 
the spike narrow, imbricated, 1-2 cm. long; pistillate flowers 
3-5, the lowest often remote; scales bract-like, artistate from a 
broad, scarious-margined base, or the upper muticous or ob- 
tuse, the lowest exceeding the spike; perigynia green, glabrous, 
obovoid-triquetrous, strongly nerved on the outer face, 4 mm. 
long, the lower ones narrow to a stipe-like base, 2-3 mm. long; 
beakless or nearly so, the orifice entire; achenes brown, min- 
utely punctate. 
Growing in clumps on dry deelivities, at 3,000-6,000 ft. alt. 
in the Nevadan region. Mt. Disappointment; Davidson. Mt. 
Wilson; Grant. Mt. Lowe; MecClatchie. Strawberry Peak; 
Mill Creek Falls; Parish. Cuyamaca Mt.; Brandegee. The 
latter station the southern limit; thence north to Southern 
Oregon. 
- + + Pistillate flowers aggregated at the base of the short linear 
stamtnate part of the spike. 
y 19. Carex filifolia, Nutt. Gen. 2:204. W. Boott m Wats. 
Bot. Cal. 2:229. Bailey, Proc. Am. Acad. 22:122. Britt. & Br. 
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Czespitose, culms very slender, smooth, 1-2 dm. tall; leaves 
filiform, shorter or a little longer than the culms; staminate 
part of the spike 3-5 mm. long; pistillate part ovoid to oblong 
or short cylindrical, 3-15 mm. long, 3-5 mm. thick; scales shorter 
and broader than the perigynia, scarious, brownish, concave, 
mostly obtuse; perigynia greenish and below ferrugineous, the 
upper part sparsely hirsute with very short, stiff hairs, obovate 
and obtusely trigonous, 3 mm. long, the short beak with an en- 
tire mouth; achenes brownish, smooth, 3-angled. 
On a dry, stony hillside, Bear Valley, 7,000 ft. alt., San Ber- 
nardino Mts., June, 1886; 1784 Parish. The southern limit of 
the species; then thence north to British Columbia; also in Col- 
orado and Nebraska. 
