SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES 77 
A Preliminary Synopsis of the Southern Cali- 
fornia Cyperacee. XII. 
BY S. B PARISH 
(Continued from page 20, Vol. 5) 
Section 2. HYPARRHENZ:, Fries, Summa, 72. Staminate flowers 
borne at the base of the spikes, or, in a few species, variously intermingled 
with the pistillate, or whole spikes staminate or pistillate, or plants diecious, 
* Staminate flowers not always confined to the base of the spikes; perigynia 
brown, ovoid, or nearly so, firm, obviously distended over the achenes. 
+ Spikes 2-4, distant, 3-9 flowered, perigynia wingless, stellately divergent 
at maturity. 
y 29. Carex stellulata ormantha, Fernald, Rhodora, 3:222. 
C. echinata ormantha, Fernald, Proc. Am. Acad. 37:483, t. 4, 
f. 8, 9. C. echinata, W. Boott in Wats. Bot. Cal. 2:237, in part. 
Culms filiform, smooth, 1-3 dm. tall; leaves erect, about 1 
mm. wide, shorter than the culms; bracts scarious, or the low- 
est aristate; terminal spike clavate by the attenuation of the 
staminate flowers, the others subglobose, and mosily wholly 
pistillate; scales brown, nearly as long as the perigynia, ovate- 
acuminate; perigynia narrowly ovoid, nerved or nerveless on 
the inner face, 3-4 mm. long, the bidentate, serrulate beak 
nearly as long as the body. 
In a wet meadow, at Bluff Lake, 7,400 ft. alt., San Bernardino: 
Mts., June, 1894, 1895; 3274, 3703 Parish. Northward in the 
Sierra Nevada to Oregon; also in New England. The type was. 
collected in the mountains of El Dorado county, by Dr. Brain- 
erd. The plant is reported to be sometimes dioecious. 
_ Plate XXIII. Fig. a. Immature head. 
++ Spikes larger, 4-7, distant, or the uppermost loosely clustered; perigy- 
nia thick, wingless, erect. 
v 30. Carex Bolanderi, Olney, Proce. Am. Acad. 7:393. Fer- 
nald, Proe. Am. Acad. 37:491. ©. Deweyana Bolanderi, W. 
Boott in Wats. Bot. Cal. 2:236. Bailey, Proc. Am. Acad. 22 :146. 
Culms slender, roughish above, 5-10 dm. tall; leaves flat, 
short-pointed, 3-5 mm. wide, shorter than the culms: braets 
seale-lke, 1-2 of the lowest usually aristate; spikes oblong to 
ovoid, acute, about 1 em. lone, the uppermost staminate at base 
the others usually entirely pistillate; scales ight brown, as long 
as the perigynia, scarious, rough-cuspidate by the extrusion of 
the green midvein; perigynia nerved on the back, 3-4 mm. 
