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( \ peraceae Carex 



specimens forming the bases of other reports should be referred to the 



same species. 



Que. to Mich.. Bouthw. to N. C. and Tenn. 



2 Carex austrina (Small) Mack. Deam reported this southern and 

 western species from Benton County in 1928 on the basis of a collection 

 (Deam no. 18219) which Mackenzie so determined. This collection is C. 

 gravida. The specimen in the Deam Herbarium approaches var. Lunelliana 

 in its rather broadly ovate, short-beaked perigynia. In his treatment of 

 the Cariceae in North American Flora (18: 57. 1931.) Mackenzie does not 

 cite Carex austrina from Indiana. 



Mo. and Kans. to Ark. and Tex. 



3 Carex vulpinoidea Michx. var. pycnocephala Hermann. A collection 

 by Deam (Steuben County, June 17, 1903) is referred to this variety in 

 Rhodora 38: 363. 1936. Since this is the only specimen known from In- 

 diana, however, and since it is not entirely typical it seems best to exclude 

 it until additional and characteristic material may be found. 



Mich, and Minn. ; probably elsewhere on sandy shores of the Great Lakes. 



4. Carex canescens L. There have been many reports of this northern 

 species from Indiana but all specimens so labeled proved to be either var. 

 disjuncta or var. subloliacea (except E. J. Hill's no. 60, which is C. tenera.) 

 Without doubt typical C. canescens is not found in Indiana. 



Lab. to B. C, locally southw. to Conn, and n. Mich. ; also in Eurasia. 



5. Carex brunnescens (Pers.) Poir. Both Pepoon and Peattie have re- 

 ported this sedge from Lake County but no specimens from there could 

 be located in the Indiana herbaria, nor in the Field Museum, Chicago 

 Academy of Sciences, Gray Herbarium, National Herbarium or the herbaria 

 of the Universities of Illinois, Wisconsin, or Michigan. Since the species 

 is known from Ohio and from at least as far southwest as Kalamazoo 

 County, Michigan, it is not improbable that it does occasionally reach 

 northern Indiana. 



Greenland, Lab., and Newf. to Alaska, southw. to N. J. (in the mts. to 

 N. C.)i Colo., and Wash.; also in Eurasia. 



6. Carex exilis Dewey. A species principally of the Coastal Plain, 

 known in the Great Lakes region only from northern Michigan, Ontario, 

 and Minnesota. Its occurrence in Steuben County, from which Bradner 

 reported it, seems unlikely and it is excluded for want of a confirming 

 specimen. 



Lab. to Del. ; locally inland in Vt., N. Y., Ont., Mich., and Minn. 



7. Carex slellulata Gooden. This and Carex Leersii Willd. are now con- 

 sidered to be synonymous with C. muricata L. The numerous Indiana 

 reports of C. stellulata and C. Leersii may have been based upon almost 

 any species of § Stellulatae, probably chiefly upon C. inconvperta and C. 

 sterilis. 



8. Carex muricata L. A boreal species known from Greenland to New- 

 foundland, Quebec, Alaska, and northern Eurasia. It is hardly feasible to 



