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(VPERACEAE 



Carex 



~T3 

 Map 504 



Carex I axif lora Lam. 



~T3 



Map 505 

 Carex laxiflora var. serrulata Hermann 



Map 509 

 Carex Haleana Olney 



are rarely found in either very sandy or (except C. gracilescens) very 

 moist woods as C. blanda frequently is. 

 Que. to N. Dak. southw. to Ala. and Tex. 



83. Carex gracilescens Steud. ("Carex laxiflora" Mack., not Lam., in 

 Britton and Brown, lllus. Flora, ed. 2 and Carex laxiflora var. gracillima of 

 < .ray. Man., ed. 7.) Map 508. Common in low woods and on wooded slopes. 

 It is generally less plentiful where found than is C. blanda at its stations. 



Que. to Wis., southw. to Va. and Ark. 



22. § GRAMLARES 



Staminate spike short-peduncled or sessile; the two upper pistillate spikes usually 

 contiguous; rootstocks not long-creeping. 

 Perigynia elliptic-obovoid to elliptic-ovoid, 2-2.5 mm long, 1-1.5 mm wide, ascending, 

 not ventricose-squarrose, rounded at the apex, abruptly very minutely beaked. 



84. C. Haleana. 



