Carex CYPERACEAE Carex 



C. vestita Willd. 



Infrequent, in sandy woods and swamps, New Castle and Cecil 

 Counties. Late May to early July. 



Anomalae 

 C. scabrata Schw. 



Rare, in swampy woods of the Piedmont: near Centreville (NC), 

 Commons in 1864 (A); Conowingo (Ce), Long & Bartram, 1 June 

 1913 (A). 



Pendulinae 



C. Joorii Bailey. (C. macrokolea Steud. of Gray's Man., ed. 7.) 



Rare; margins of cypress swamps: 20 mi. s. w. of Cambridge 

 (Do), M. A. Chrysler, 26 Aug. 1904 (A); Vienna (Do), C. P. Smith, 

 13 Aug. 1913 (A); 2 mi. s. w. of Libertytown (Wo), A. V. Smith & 

 R. R. Tatnall, 4019, 9 Sept. 1938, and later collections (T, P, A, G); 

 Purnell Pond, 1 mi. n. e. of Snow Hill (Wo), (A. F. Smith), R. R. 

 Tatnall, 4335, 9 Aug. 1939 (T, P, A). 

 A southern species. 



C. glaucescens Ell. 



Rare; swamps in the Coastal Plain: open pine swamp near 

 Snow Hill (Wo), A. V. Smith in Rhodora 41, 111. 1939; ditch along 

 Sahsbury-Snow Hill highway, 1 mi. n. of Longridge (Wo), A. V. 

 Smith & R. R. Tatnall, 4642, 3 Aug. 1940 (T). 



A southern species, here at its northern Umit of range. 



Limosae 



C. Barrattii Schw. & Torr. (C. littoralis Schw. of Gray's Man., 

 ed. 7.) 

 Infrequent; swamps and moist open places. Coastal Plain. 

 May, June. 



C. limosa L. 



A northern species, in sphagnous bogs from Labrador "south- 

 ward to southern Delaware" (Mackenzie). No specimen seen. 



Atrata£ 

 C. Buxbaumii Wahl. 



Rare; in bogs and wet meadows: McCrones Swamp, Farnhurst 

 (NC), Commons, 2 June 1868 (A); Pleasant Hill (Ce), Otis, 12 June 



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