Lesser Saltmarsh Sedge

Carex pribylovensis ]. M. Macoun, in D. S. Jordan, Fur Seals X.Pacif. 3: 572. 1899.
Carex lagopina var. pribylovensis Kiikenth. in Engler, Pflanzenreich 4 20 : 214. 1909. (Based on C. pribylovensis J. M. Macoun.)
Loosely cespitose, in small clumps, the rootstocks long-creeping, slender, brownish, fibrillose, the culms 2.5-4 dm. high, sharply triangular, slender but stiff, exceeding the leaves, very rough on the angles on the upper half, black-fibrillose at the brownish base and conspicuously clothed with the dried-up leaves of the previous year, the lower short-bladed ; leaves with welldeveloped blades 5-8 to a fertile culm, on the lower half but not bunched, the blades flat, yellowish-green, thiekish. ascending or erect, usually 5-15 cm. long, 1.5—2.5 mm. wide, longattenuate and very rough towards the apex, the sheaths tight, hyaline ventrally, thin and short-prolonged beyond base of blade and continuous with ligule; spikes 3 or 4, distinct but closely aggregated, forming a head 13-20 mm. long, S-12 mm. thick, the spikes densely flowered, oblong, 7-12 mm. long, 5 mm. wide, the lateral pistillate and rounded at both ends, the terminal gynaecandrous and short-clavate at base, the perigynia 10 30, appressed; bracts scale-like; scales broadly ovate, obtuse to acute, deep-chestnut-brown with straw-colored midrib and broad white-hyaline margin, sharply keeled nearly to apex, wider and longer than the perigynia; perigynia plano-convex, broadly ovate, sharp-angled ventrally but not margined, 2.5-3 mm. long. 15 mm. wide, lightly several-nerved on both sides, membranaceous, strongly puncticulate, light-yellowish-grecn, smooth, substipitate, round-tapering at base, very abruptly minutely beaked, the beak minutely emarginate, dorsally cleft, smooth, slightly tawny-tinged; achenes lenticular, nearly filling perigynia, oval, 2 mm. long, 1.25 mm. wide, tapering at base, truncately apieulate; style slender, jointed with achene, at length deciduous; stigmas two, slender, light-reddish-brown.
Typb locality " Uplands in moss." Pribilof Islands UM. Macoun).
Distribution: Known only from the type locality.