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long, contracted to a narrow, deeply bidentate beak, half as long 
as the body; achenes castaneous, lenticular, broadly ovoid, 
1) wm. ome, 
Mill Creek Falls, 6,000 ft. alt., San Bernardino Mts., July, 
1892; 2486 Parish. The southern limit, thence northward, in 
the Sierra Nevada Mts., to Washineton. 
Plate XXU11. Fig. b. 
+++ Spikes 3-4, contiguous in a linear-oblong head. 
’ 31. Carex praegracilis, W. Boott, Bot. Gaz. 9:87. Bailey, 
Proc. Am. Acad. 22 :144. 
“Stem (the lower part and stem leaves wanting) 26 in. high, 
straight and slender, scarcely half a line broad on the side, 
the sharp angles rough above. Sterile leaves thread-like, con- 
volute, the cross-section exactly circular. Spike ferrugineous, 
oblong-linear, one-half inch long, of 3-4 contiguous, sessile 
spikelets, the uppermost club-shaped, male at base, the others 
elliptical, female, few-flowered. Bracts from an ovate, hyaline- 
margined base, which encircles the stem, tapering to rough, 
somewhat spreading awns, which are longer than their spike- 
lets, and commonly shorter than the stems. Seales similar to 
the bracts, with broader margins and shorter awns, covering 
the perigynia. Perigynia cartilaginous, ferrugineous, pale at 
base, glabrous, ovate, acuminate-beaked, slightly stalked, 11% 
lines long, 34 lines broad, long-fissured on the outer face (the 
margins of the fissure whitish), convex on the outer face, the 
margins of the inner face incurved and serrate above, ob- 
securely nerved. Nut chestnut, round-ovate, biconvex, filling 
the perigynia. Stigmas 2. Style included. 
‘*San Diego, California, Miss Seott, 1880.’’ 
The above is the description of the type. It is not known 
in what part of San Diego county it was found, nor has the 
plant been rediscovered. The original and only specimen, 
apparently at best incomplete, is now in a fragmentary condi- 
tion, in the Gray herbarium, except for a few fragments which 
are in Dr. Bailey’s herbarium. Its rediscovery is much to be 
desired. Mr. Fernald is of opinion that it may be a Kobresia, 
rather than a Carex. 
Plate XXII. Drawn at the Gray herbarium, from the type 
specimen, by Mr. P. B. Whelply, under the direction of Mr. 
M. L. Fernald. 1, 2, Seales 3, Bract. 4, 5, 6, Perigynia, from 
the pocket on the sheet. 7, 8, 9, Spikes. All are enlarged 10 
diameters. 
+--+ Spikes 3-10, loosely clustered in antrregular oblong head, 1-3.0f the 
lowest spikes often more or less separated; perigynia strongly convex on the 
outer faces, the narrow wing, more or less incurved. 
