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39. Carex athrostachya, Olney, Proc. Am. Acad. 7:393. W. 
Boott in Wats. Bot. Cal. 2:234. Bailey, Proce. Am. Acad. 22:153. 
Culms erect, slender, scabridous under the heads, 2-5 dm. 
tall; leaves long-pointed, about 2 mm. wide, mostly shorter than 
the culms; spikes 5-15, hight brown, ovoid, 3-7 mm. long, com- 
pacted in a globose or ovoid head, 1-1.5 em. high; scales as 
long as the perigynia, brown, ovate-lanceolate, the midvein 
serrulate towards the acute or mucronulate tip; perigynia lan- 
ceolate to acutely deltoid, serrulate to the middle, nerveless, 
3-4 mim. long, the flat beak about half the length of the body. 
In wet meadows, Bear Valley, 6,500 ft. alt., in the San Ber- 
nardino Mts., Aug., 1882, June, 1894; 1573, 3271 Parish. North 
to British Columbia, and in the Rocky Mts. of Colorado and 
Montana. 
IPB Q2OMIUNL, IIe a, 
