Carex 



Cyperaceae 



259 



50 



Map 532 



Carex Bushii Mack. 



lanuginosa 



lake border. It is one of the most widely distributed sedges in North 

 America. 



Schneck's report from the Lower Wabash Valley is unsupported by 

 specimens; in fact, no material has been seen from any of the south- 

 western counties. 



N. B. to B. C, southw. to Tenn., Ark., N. Mex., and Calif. 



107. Carex lasiocarpa Ehrh. (Carex filiformis of authors, not L.) 

 Map 534. Frequent in the lake area in sloughs and sphagnum bogs and 

 on lake borders. Like the preceding species, it often forms large colonies. 



No specimen could be found to substantiate Schneck's report from the 

 Lower Wabash Valley, an area far south of the normal range of C. 

 lasiocarpa. 



Newf. to B. C, southw. to N. J., Pa., Iowa, Idaho, and Wash.; also in 

 Europe. 



30A. § ANOMALAE 

 Carex scabrata Schwein. (See excluded species no. 23, p. 275.) 



31. § SHORTIANAE 



108. Carex Shortiana Dewey. Map 535. Common except in northern 

 Indiana. It is found in moist open woods and roadside ditches and on 

 banks of creeks. 



Attempts to locate a specimen to support Peattie's report from Lake 

 County have been unsuccessful and the species is not otherwise known 

 in western Indiana north of Tippecanoe County. 



Pa. to Iowa, south, to Va., Tenn., and Okla. 



108a. X Carex Deamii Hermann. (Rhodora 40: 81. 1938.) A sterile 

 hybrid between Carex Shortiana and C. typhina which was discovered by 

 Deam in Pike County in 1926. The only known locality for it is at the 

 edge of a low woods on the east side of the road dividing sections 17 and 18, 

 Jefferson Twp., two miles southwest of Otwell. 



