58 THE GENUS CAREX IN CALIFORNIA 



This plant with long sheathing bracts, the relationship of which is clearly with Carex 

 aurea Nutt., was confused with the far northern Carex subspathacea Wormsk. by W. Boott in the 

 Botany of California, and even in the Pflanzenreich (42 o : 362) is referred to the northern Carex 

 salina Wahl. 



Locs.: Mendocino City, Bolander 4702; Fort Bragg, Davy 6139. 



Refs.: Carex salin^fohmis Mackenzie, Bull. Torr. Club 36: 477 (1909). "C. salina Wahl, 

 var. minor Boott" W. Boott in S. Wats. Bot. Cal. 2: 242 (1880). "C. salina Wahl." Kuk., in Engler, 

 Pflzr. 420; 361 (1909) as to California plant. 



72. C. Hassei Bailey. Rootstocks very slender, whitish, elongated; culms 

 1.5-6 dm. high, phyllopodic, sharply triangular, usually much roughened above, 

 light-brownish at base; leaf -blades 2-4 mm. wide; staminate spike short-peduncled, 

 6-12 mm. long, 2-3 mm. wide, often pistillate at apex; pistillate spikes usually 3-5, 

 the upper approximate and short-peduncled, the lower long-peduncled, linear- 

 oblong, 8-20 mm. long, 3.5 mm. wide, with 6-20 ascending perigynia ; bracts short- 

 sheathing, the lowest exceeding culms; scales ovate, acute, reddish-brown tinged; 

 perigynia obovoid, suborbicular in cross-section, straw-colored or pulverulent, 2.5-3 

 mm. long, less than 2 mm. wide, substipitate or tapering at base, slightly pointed; 

 style becoming short-exserted and somewhat persistent. 



Type Locality: San Antonio Canon, San Bernardino Mts., California (Hasse). 



River banks and wet rocks, Labrador to Yukon, south to Maine, Pennsylvania, 

 Alberta, Utah and California, where known chiefly from the Sierra Nevada and the 

 higher southern mountains except for its local occurrence in Santa Clara Co. 



Locs.: San Gabriel River, Hasse; San Bernardino Range, Hasse; San Antonio Canon, Hasse; 

 San Bernardino, Parish 1055, 5219, 4688, 6932; Seven Oaks, San Bernardino Co., Geo. B. Grant 4033; 

 Mt. Pinos, Kern Co., Hall; Dry Lake Canon, San Gorgonio Mts., Abrams & McGregor 792; Mariposa 

 Co., Congdon; Sierra Valley, Sierra Co., Lernmon 487; Loma Prieta Peak, Santa Clara Co., Elmer 

 4865; Yosemite, Abrams 4407; Deep Creek, San Bernardino Co., Abrams 2049; San Antonio Mts., 

 Johnston 1391, 1413; Igerna, Siskiyou Co., Heller 8096; Bear Creek, Tulare Co., Dudley 2858; Sisson, 

 Dudley. 



Refs.: Carex Hassei Bailey, Bot. Gaz. 21:5 (1896); Parish, Bull. S. Cal. Acad. 4: 110 (1905). 

 C. aurea Nutt. var. celsa Bailey, Mem. Torr. Club 1:75 (1SS9); Kuk. in Engler, Pflzr. 420 : 509 (1909), 

 type from San Bernardino Mts., Cal., Vasey. "C. bicolor All." Rob. & Fern, in A. Gray Manual (ed. 

 7) 232 (1908). C. celsa Piper in Piper & Beattie Fl. N. W. Coast 79 (1915), not Boott 1862. C. aurea 

 Nutt. var. androgyna Olney in Bot. King, 371 (1871), type from Presque Isl., Pennsylvania, Garber. 



73. C. aurea Nutt. Rootstocks slender, whitish, elongated; culms 0.3-4 

 dm. high, phyllopodic, smooth or somewhat roughened, triangular, light brownish 

 at base; leaf-blades 2-4 mm. wide; staminate spike sessile or short-peduncled, 3-10 

 mm. long, 1.5-3 mm. wide; pistillate spikes usually 3-5, the upper approximate and 

 short-peduncled, the lower from little to strongly separate and often strongly pedunc- 

 led, 4-20 mm. long, 3-5 mm. wide, with 4-20 ascending perigynia; bracts sheathing, 

 exceeding culm; scales ovate, obtusish to short cuspidate, reddish-brown tinged; 

 perigynia broadly obovoid, brownish or at maturity golden yellow, broadly oval in 

 cross-section, 2-3 mm. long, 1.5-2 mm. wide, tapering at base, umbonate and beakless. 



Type Locality: Shores of Lake Michigan (Nuttall). 



Wet places, Newfoundland to Yukon, south to Connecticut, Michigan, New 

 Mexico and California, where confined to the Sierra Nevada and eastward, except 

 for its local occurrence in the southern mountains. 



Locs.: Mono Lake, Brewer 1839; Tuolumne Soda Spgs., Bolander 6220; Big Valley Mts., 

 Modoc Co., Baker & Nutting; Tallac and Echo, El Dorado Co., Brainerd; Glen Alpine, Lake Tahoe, 

 McGregor 21, Blasdale; Mt. Pinos, Ventura Co., Hall 6518; Mineral King, Coville & Funston 1429; 

 Mt. San Antonio, Wilder; Bear Valley, San Bernardino Mts., Abrams 2847; Hockett Meadow, Tulare 

 Co., Dudley 1007; Kennedys Meadows, Tuolumne Co., A. L. Grant 180a and 120; "California," Kel- 

 logg & Harford 1079; Little Grizzly Ranger Station, Plumas Co., Eggleston 7593; Jess Valley to Blue 

 Lake, Griffiths & Hunter 416. 



Refs.: Carex aurea Nutt. Gen. N. Am. PI. 2: 205 (1818); W. Boott in S. Wats. Bot. Cal. 

 2: 240 (1880); Parish, Bull. S. Cal. Acad. 5: 36 (1906); Kuk., in Engler, Pflzr. 420 : 508 (1909). C. 

 mutica R. Br. in Richardson, App. Narr. Franklin Voy. 35 (1823), type from northwestern Canada 

 between 54°-64°. C. pyriformis Schw. ex. Dewey Am. Jour. Sci. 9: 69 (1825), type from Berkshire 

 Co., Mass. "C. californica Bailey" Parish, Bull. S. Cal. Acad. 5: 36 (1906). 



