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Salt Sedge

Carex hassei L. H. Bailey

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Carex hassei L. H. Bailey, Bot. Gaz. 21: 5. 1896
Carex aurea var. androgyna OIney, in S. Wats. Bot. King's Expl. 371. in large part. 1871. (Type
from Presque Isle, Pennsylvania.) Carex aurea var. celsa L. H. Bailey, Mem. Torrey Club 1: 75. 1889. (Type from San Bernardino
Mountains. California.) -Carex bicolor All." Rob. & Fern. Man. 232. 1908. Carex celsa Piper; Piper & Beattie. Fl. NW. Coast 79. 1915. (Based on C. aurea var. celsa L. H.
Bailey.) Not C. celsa Boott. 1862.
Loosely cespitose and long-stoloniferous, the stolons very slender, horizontal, yellowishbrown, the clumps medium-sized or small, the culms slender, erect, 0.5-7 dm. high, triangular, more or less roughened above, phyllopodic, exceeding leaves, light-brownish-tinged at base; leaves with well-developed blades usually 5-7 to a fertile culm, on lower fourth, more numerous on the sterile, the blades usually 0.5-2 dm. long, 2-4 mm. w-ide, light-green, not flaccid, flat above, channeled at base, roughened towards the attenuate apex; sheaths concave at mouth, the ligule about as wide as long; terminal spike staminate or gynaecandrous, erect, shortpeduncled, 6-20 mm. long, the staminate part 2-3 mm. wide, the staminate scales oblongobovate, obtusish or acutish, reddish-brown, with lighter center and narrow hyaline margins; pistillate spikes 3-5, approximate or the lower strongly separate, often nearly basal, erect, the upper short-peduncled or sessile, the lower long-peduncled, the peduncles slightly rough, the spikes linear-oblong, 0.7-2.5 cm. long, 3.5-4.5 mm. wide, with 10-30 appressed-ascending perigynia in several rows, closely flowered above, more loosely at base, sometimes more or less compound at base; lower bracts leaflet-like, prominently short-sheathing, the sheath concave at mouth, not biauriculate, the blades much exceeding inflorescence; upper bracts smaller; cladoprophyllum conspicuous, perigynium-like; scales ovate-suborbicular, obtuse, mucronate, acute, or acuminate, appressed, not divaricate, generally a little shorter and narrower than the perigynia, reddish-brown with broad, lighter, 3-nerved center and whitish-hyaline margins and usually conspicuous white-hyaline apex; perigynia elliptic-obovoid, flattened, suborbicular in cross-section, not inflated, 2.5-3 mm. long, 1.5 mm. wide, rather obscurely ribbed, membranaceous, minutely densely granular, whitish-pulverulent, not fleshy, not translucent, tapering and broadly short-stipitate at base, rounded and beakless or very nearly so at apex, the orifice entire; achenes lenticular, with suborbicular face, 1.5 mm. long, 1.25 mm. wide, closely enveloped, substipitate, brownish, minutely densely puncticulate, abruptly minutely apiculate, jointed with the short, slender, black, slightly exscrted style; stigmas two, short, slender, blackish.
TvPB i»cality: San Antonio CafSon, San Bernardino ranKc, California (/lasse).
Distribution River banks and wet r<x:ks. in calcareous districts, Quebec and New Brunswick to Yukon, and southward to Maine, northwestern Pennsylvania. Alberta, and in the mountains to Utah, Nevada and southern California. ^Specimens examined from Quebec, New Brunswick, Maine. New Hampshire, Vermont, New York, Pennsylvania, Ontario, Michigan, Wisconsin, Alberta, Mackenzie. Yukon, British Columbia, including Vancouver Island, Washington, Oregon, California, Nevada, Utah.)
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Kenneth Kent Mackenzie. 1935. (POALES); CYPERACEAE; CARICEAE. North American flora. vol 18(4). New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY
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