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32. Carex siccata, Dewey, Silliman’s Jour. 10:478. W. 
Boott in Wats. Bot. Caly 2-230") Baileys weroc. eAmpmp cade 
22 NAT Birch, clers Eels 355s bernal dase o ca Aumeme Ae dale 
BY oo). ey Jk, ats Oa, 
Rhizome covered with brown scales; short-jointed, exten- 
sively creeping; culms slender, rough above, 2-6 dm. tall; leaves 
1-2 mm. wide, mostly somewhat shorter than the culms; lowest 
bract usually short-awned; spikes oblong, 2-4 em. long; seales 
nearly as long as the perigynia, ferrugineous, ovate-lanceolate ; 
perigynia few-nerved on the outer face, 3-4 em. long, contracted 
to a narrow, serrulate, obscurely bidentate beak half as long 
as the body; achenes brown, lenticular, ovoid, 1.5 mm. long. 
Common in the Cismontane region, in damp, subalkaline 
soil. Los Angeles; Abrams, Davidson. Pasadena; McClatchie. 
Peat lands, Orange Co., Helen D. Geis. San Diego; Chandler. 
San Bernardino; Parish. Northward to the Columbia river, 
and widely distributed throughout North America, from the 
latitude of Ohio to Ontario. Also in Northern Asia. 
; ** Spikes all staminate at base only, compacted, or more or less distinct in 
large heads, except No. 35. 
+ Spikes, greenish, perigynia pallid, or greenish, ovoid, conspicuously 
wing-margined, bracts inconspicuous, shortly aristate from a scarious base 
33. Carex feta, Bailey, Bull. Torr. Club, 20:418. C. straminea 
mixta, Bailey, Proc. Am. Acad. 21:151. OC. lagopodioides, W. 
Boott in Wats. Bot. Cal. 2:237. C. scoparia fulva, W. Boott, 
l. e., in part. C. adusta, W. Boott, |. c. 2:238. C. cristata mira- 
bilis, W. Boott, |. e. 
Culms stoutish, smooth, 3-6 dm. tall; leaves flat, 3-5 mm. wide, 
shorter than the culms; spikes 5-10, silvery-green, closely im- 
bricated, ovoid to ovoid-oblong, 3-4 em. long, distinct Im an 
oblong, or compacted in a shorter ovoid head; scales nearly 
equalling the perigynia, oval, acute; perigynia obscurely nerved 
on the outer face, serrulate on the margin half way to the 
base, 3-4 mm. long, gradually attenuate to a flat, obscurely bi- 
dentate beak, one-third the length of the body; achenes ecas- 
taneous, ovoid, lenticular, 1 mm. long. 
San Jacinto Mts.; Hasse. Tahquitz Valley, 7,000 ft. alt., 
July, 1891; Fuller’s Mills, 6,800 ft. alt.; 2439, 2561 Hall. Straw- 
berry Valley, 5,700 ft. alt.; Jepson & Hall. San Bernardino 
Mts., in Waterman Canyon, 3,000 ft. alt., Aug., 1891; 2514 
Parish. 
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/ 34. Carex specifica, Bailey, Mem. Torr. Club, 1:21. CG. sco- 
paria fulva, W. Boott in Wats. Bot. Cal. 2:237, in large part. 
Bailey, Proc. Am. Acad’? 22 :148. 
