126 SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES 
A PRELIMINARY SYNOPSIS OF THE SOUTH- 
ERN CALIFORNIA CYPERACE. VIII.* 
By S. B. Parish. 
* Perigynia Stramineous or greenish, as are the scales, so that 
the spikes appear light in color; the long beak bidentate; stigmas 
3; prstellate spihes erect, except No. 2, bracts not aurzculate. 
+-Perigynia thin and firm in texture, tapertng into a beak one- 
third as long as the body; staminate spike solttary, except No. 1. 
++Perigynia glabrous, inflated and not filled by the achene. 
1. Carex utriculata Boott; Hook. Fl. Bor. Am. 2:221:W. 
Booth mm) Watss Bots Cals 2)-Zo2. Britta cbr ll hele oie 
Bailey, Bot. Gaz. 9:122; Mem. Torr. Club, 1:59. C. rostrata 
utriculata Bailey, Proc. Am. Acad. 22:67. 
Stoloniferous; culms stout, scabrid, 5-10 dm. tall; leaves flat, 
5-8 mm. wide, nodulose, scabrid, exceeding the culms; bracts 
similar, the lowest exceeding the culm; staminate spikes 2-3; 
pistillate spikes 2-4, eylindrical, densely-flowered, 3g em. Jong, 
sessile, or the lowest pedunculate; scales equalling or exceed- 
ing the perigynia, lanceolate, prolonged to an accuminate sea- 
brid tip; perigynia ovoid to ovoid-oblong, few-nerved, the body 
2-3 mm. long, and the beak half as long, its teeth erect; 
achenes oblong. 
Common in wet meadows, Bear Valley, 6,500 ft. alt., in the 
San Bernardino Mts.; 1275a Parish. Bluff Lake, 7,400 ft. alt.; 
Parish. This is the southern known limit of the species, 
whence it extends north through the Sierra Nevada to British 
Columbia; also in the Rocky Mts., and in northern Atlantic 
States. 
C. utriculata minor Boott. 1. ¢. Leaves narrower, and spikes 
sienderer and shorter. 
Bear Valley, with the species; 1575 Parish. 
. 2. Carex comosa Boott, Trans. Linn. Soe. 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, evlindricaé., 5-7 em. long, 8-10 
mm. thick, approximate, drooping on short peduncles; scales 
*Continued from Page 52 (This Volume), No. 3, March, 1905. 
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