52) SOUDERNG CALTHORNGATACADIEMNAOL SS GILAN GIES: 
Culms stout, slightly roughened at the top, 5-7 dm. tall; 
leaves short-pointed, 5-6 mm. wide, shorter than the culms; 
spikes 5-10, ovoid-oblong, 7-15 mm. long, loosely imbricated, 
distinct, clustered in an ovoid or ovoid-oblong greenish-brown 
head, 3-4 em. long; seales nearly as long as the perigynia, 
brown, with green midvein, sharply acuminate; perigynia ser- 
rulate on the margin nearly to the base, nerveless, about 4 
mm. long, narrowed to a flat, bidentate beak, nearly as long as 
the body; achenes oblong, lenticular, 1.75 mm. long. 
In wet meadows: in the Nevadan region, San Bernardino 
Mts. Fredalba Park, 5,600 ft. alt.; S. Grout. Deep Creek; 
2767 Abrams. Mull Creek, 5,000 ft. alt.; Bear Valley, 6,500 
ft. alt.; Strawberry Valley, 5,200 ft. alt.; Little Bear Valley, 
4,500 ft. alt.; 1161, 3609; 2930, 1698 Parish. San Jacinto 
Mts. Strawberry Valley, 5,250 ft. alt.; Fuller’s Mills, 6,800 
ft. alt.; 2665, 3609 Hall. Allen’s Camp, 4,500 ft. alt.; Hasse. 
late exXexelil iio: ale 
++ Spikes brown or tawny. 
++Heads small; perigynia loose at maturity, brown, thick, wingless and 
smooth on the edges, the orifice of the narrow beak entire, or obscurely 
toothed, 
¥ 35. Carex illota, Bailey, Mem. Torr. Club, 1.15. C. Bon- 
plandii angustifolia, W. Boott in Wats. Bot. Cal. 2:233. Bailey, 
Proc. Am. Acad. 22:153. 
Culms erect, slender, nearly smooth, 6-40 em. tall; leaves 
1-2 mm. wide, shorter than the culms; the inconspicuous bracts 
awnless; spikes 3-6, ovoid, 2-4 mm. long, compacted in a dark 
brown, globose, ovoid or short oblong head, 5-10 mm. long, 
5 mm. thick; scales shorter than the perigynia, brown, ovate, 
acute; perigynia dark brown, ovoid to ovoid-lanceolate, spong- 
iose at base, 2-3 mm. long, the beak nearly as long as the 
body; achenes oval, plano-convex, mucronalate, 1 mm. long. 
In wet meadows, Bluff Lake, 7,500 ft. alt., in the San Ber- 
nardino Mts.; June, 1894; 3273 Parish. Northward throughout 
the Sierra Nevada to Oregon; also in Colorado. 
Plate XXIII. Fig. e. 
++++Fleads larger; perigynia pallid, thin and scale-like, the winged mar- 
gins serrulate,and the flat beaks more or less deeply bidentate, achenes 
lenticular, ordtcular to oblong, about 1 mm. long. 
= Bracts inconspicuous, muticous or short awned from a broad, scarious 
base, all but the lowest usually rudimentary or wanting. 
36. Carex Preslii, Steud. Pl. Cyp. 2:42. Bailey, Mem. Torr. 
Club, 1:52. C. leporina Americana, Olney, Proc. Am. Acad. 
7:407. Bailey, Proc. Am. Acad. 22:152. 
