2 SOULE AN GALLE ORIN AeA GAD ANN NOLS GN GLE) 
attenuate to a beak half as long as the body; achenes pallid, 
ovoid, 1.5 mm, lone. 
Apparently confined to the marshes near the coast. Ballona, 
April, 1889; Hasse. Mesmer; 3239 Abrams. Santa Ana; 
Helen D. Geis. 
According to authors this sedge is of wide distribution in 
western America, but probably several species may be confused 
under the name. I refer our own plants to it with doubt. The 
type was ‘‘a few specimens brought by Mr. Secouler from the 
Columbia river.’’ It was described by Dr. Boott in Hooker’s 
Flora Borealis-Americane, where the perigynia are character- 
ized as ‘‘late ovatis accuminatatis rostratis, superne margine 
serratis.’’ [ater he redescribed it in the *‘Illustrations of the 
Genus Carex,’’ broadening the characterization of the peri- 
egynia to ‘‘suborbiculatis vel ovatis, plus minus rostratis, su- 
perne margine alatis serratis.’’ 
In both works the details are figured, but so unlike in the 
two plates, that it is difficult to beleve that both were drawn 
from the same plant. This discrepancy is noted in the ‘‘Tlus- 
trations,’’ but not explained. Britton and Brown, in the 
**Tilustrated Flora,’’? adopt Boott’s later description and figures, 
and if these represent the true species, our plants hardly can 
be of it. They may be included, however, if the earlier figuze 
be taken as the correct representation. Recent authors state 
that the plants are sometimes ‘“‘nearly dioecious,’’ and that 
some spikes are wholly staminate. These characters are not 
noted in either of Boott’s descriptions, and do not appear in 
our Specimens. 
Plate XOX hie. 2 Dracinic: trom) coxa, Elooke His ores vu: 
i Pistilllaie towers 2030 eriovmial 4a Nclrene: (Hioeipallieaes 
ino com tv Oot Mil Gener Carex (ta. tere vanininaemrannte 
terior face. b. Perigynium, posterior face. ec. Pistil. h. Pis- 
tillate scale. 1. Bract. Fig. 5, Drawn from Hasse’s specimen. 
A, Jeevan, 19, Jensill,> ©, lensalillane seal. 
%4% Spikes light brown, simple, aggregated in a dense ovoid or globulose 
head; bracts inconspicuous, aristate from an expanded scarious base. 
y 25. Carex Bernardina, n. sp. 
Rhizome creeping; culms slender and lax, rough on the sharp 
edges, 5-6 dm. tall; leaves 1-3 mm. wide, shorter than the culms; 
spikes in a dense ovoid head, about 2 em. long and 1-1.5 em. 
thick; seales a little shorter than the perigynia, hyaline, with 
a brown midvein, ovate, acute; perigynia brown, suborbiecular, 
strongly nerved on the exterior face, the subcordate base stip- 
itate, 2-2.5 mm. lone, contracted to a serrate beak as lone as 
the body; achenes pallid, lenticular, puncticeulose, conformed 
to the body of the perigynium. 
