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Vol. 4, page 52. 
Pistillate spikes loose, few-flowered. 
Stigmas 2; perigynia pyriform. 
Perigynia coriaceous, green. 
Seales ovate-oblong, equalling the perigynia. 
14a. C. Californica 
Seales broadly ovate, shorter than the perigynia. 
15. C. Hassei 
Reraeayamiayenles hyanay.e ll Ojwals easel een 15a. C. aurea 
Vol. 4, page 110. 
** Prstillate spikes few, short, oblong, loosely-flowered, the upper sessile and 
approximate at the base of the solitary staminate spike, the lowest remote 
and borne on a ‘ong slender stalk; bracts grass-like: sheathing at base; 
perigyntia pyriform or oblong, nerved, beakless; stigmas 2. 
+FPerigynia firm and coriaceous in texture, green. 
14a. Carex Californica, Bailey, Mem. Torr. Club, 1:9. OC. 
polymorpha, W. Boott in Wats. Bot. Cal. 2 :247. 
Caespitose by slender, naked rhizomes; culms filiform, 5-10 
em. tall; leaves 2-4 mm. wide, nearly equalling the culms; pis- 
tillate spikes 2-4, 4-10 mm. long; scales as long as the perigynia, 
ovate-oblong, mucronulate, brown with broad green midvein; 
perigynia elongated pyriform. 
Deseribed from immature specimens collected July, 1905, at 
Sawmill Mt., 8,500 ft. alt., Ventura Co., by Mr. H. M. Hall, No. 
6518. The type is 4741 Bolanderi, collected in Mendocino Co. 
15. Carex Hassei, Bailey. See page 110. 
+ + Ferigynia fleshy, yellowish and more or less translucent when dried, at 
length brownish. 
15a. Carex aurea, Nutt. Gen. 2:205. W. Boott in Wats. Bot. 
Cal. 2:240. Bailey, Proc. Am. Acad. 22:110. Britt. & Br. Tl 
TM, IL gaan. 
Caespitose; culms smooth, slender and erect, 1-10 em. tall; 
leaves flat, 3-5 mm. wide, shorter than the culms; seales hardly 
half the length of the perigynia, brown with a yellowish mid- 
vein, and hyaline margins, broadly ovate, acute; perigynia ob- 
securely nerved, 2 mm. long. 
In a meadow, between Bear Valley and Bluff Lake, 7,000 ft. 
alt., San Bernardino Mts.; 2847 Abrams. San Antonio Mt., near 
the summit; Mrs. H. E. Wilder. North to British Columbia; 
also in the Rocky Mts., and in the northern Atlantic states. 
Readily distinguished from ©. Hassei by the texture and color 
of the perigynia. 
