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Carex crinita Lam. Encyel. 3:393, 1789. FRINGED SEDGE. 
Ell. Sk. 2:536. Gray, Man. ed. 6,601. Coulter, Contr. Nat. Herb. 2 : 479. 
Canadian zone to Carolinian area, Nova Scotia and Ontario; New England west 
to Minnesota; south from New York to Florida and Texas. 
ALABAMA: Mountain region. Walker County (7... Peters). Jee County, Auburn 
(Baker §° Earle, 540). 
Type locality: ‘Cette plante croit dans la Virginie.” 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
Carex glaucescens Ell. Sk. 2:553, 1821-24, PALE SEDGE, 
Chap. FI, 542. 
Louisianian area. South Carolina to Florida, west to Mississippi. Distribution 
not well defined, the species being by most anthors confounded with C. verrucosa 
Muhl. The latter, though it ocenrs in the lower South, appears to be mainly of a 
more northern distribution. 
ALABAMA: Lower Pine belt, Coast plain. Borders of pine-yarren ponds, Clark, 
Washington, and Mobile counties. Frequent. 
Abundantly distinet from (. rerrucosa ly the almost nerveless, glaucous perigynia, 
which are much longer than the blace of the seales and almost as long as their 
rough awns. Leaves tlattish and generally broader, 
Type locality: ‘“ Grows around pine-harren ponds [South Carolina and Georgia].” 
Herb. Geol. Sury. Herb, Mohr. 
Carex verrucosa Muhl. Gram, 261. 1817. WARTY-FRUITED SEDGE, 
KML Sk.2:555. Chap. FI542; ed. 3, 570, 
Carolinian and Louisianian areas. North Carolina to Florida, west to eastern 
Texas. 
ALABAMA: Almost certainly in the State, but specific locality can not be given. 
Type locality: ‘‘ Hab, in Georgia et Carolina.” 
Herb, Geol. Surv. 
Carex virescens Muhl.; Willd. Sp. Pl. 4:251. 1805, DowNy GREEN SEDGE, 
Gray, Man. ed. 6, 602. 
SouTn AMERICA. 
Alleghenian and Carolinian areas, Ontario; New England west to New York and 
Michigan south to Tennessee, along the mountains to North Carolina, and in Missouri 
and Arkansas. 
ALABAMA: Mountain region. Shaded rocky hillsides. Winston County, Colliers 
Creek, 1,600 feet, Dekalb County, Lookout Mountain, near Mentone, 1,800 feet, 
June; infrequent. ; 
Type locality: ‘Hab. in Pensylvania.” 
Herb, Geol. Surv, Herb. Mohr. 
Carex triceps Michx. FI]. Bor. Am, 2:170. 1805, SmooTtil GREEN SEDGE, 
Carex viridula Schwein. & Torr. Ann. Lye. N. Y.1:320, 1825. 
EN. 8k. 2:538. Bailey, Mem. Torr. Club, 1:34 (Types of Carices, No.41), Chap. 
FI. 537. 
Carolinian and Louisianian areas. Carolina to Texas. 
ALABAMA: Mountain to Central Prairie region, Low wet woods in heavy clay soil, 
Lee County, Auburn (Baker §° Earle, 526). Limestone County, Athens ( Baker § Farle, 
545). Dallas County, Experiment Station near Uniontown. Local; rare. — 
This decidedly Southern plant is clearly distinct by the slender habit of its growth, 
the smaller fertile spikes, and the smooth achenia, 
Type locality: ‘‘ Hab, in Carolina.” 
Herb, Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
Carex hirsuta Willd. Sp. PJ. 4:252. 1805, IlirsuTre SEDGE. 
Carex triceps hirsuta Bailey, Mem. Torr. Club, 1:85. 1889. 
C. triceps Boott, Il. t. 128, 1858. 
EN. Sk. 2:538. Gray, Man.ed. 6,602. Chap. FI. 587. Coulter, Contr. Nat. Herb. 
2:479. 
Alleghenian and Carolinian areas, Ontario; New England to Missouri; south to 
Florida?, Alabama, and central Texas. 
ALABAMA: Tennessee Valley. Mountain region to coast plain; common through- 
out. 
Type locality: ‘Hab, in America boreali.” 
Herb. Mohr. 
