114 METASPERMAE OF THE MINNESOTA VALLEY, 



North America: Ont. to N. 111., Iowa, S. Minn and 

 Dak. and E. Neb. and Wyoming. 



Minn, valley: Forest district; low meadows and fields. 

 Herb. ; Taylor 169, Janesville. 



Carex gravida Bail. var. laxifolia Bail. Typ. Car. 6 



(1889). 



Webb., Appx. Keb. 23: Wats, and Coult., Gray's Man. ed. 6, 615. 



Minn, valley: Forest district; low, wet meadows and 

 moist fields. 



Herb. : Taylor oU, Mud lake, Waseca Co. ; Tmjlor 

 50^, Minnesota Lake. 



Carex teretiuscula Gooden. Trans. Linn. Soc. II, 163 



(1794). 



C. diandra Sciikr. Baler. Fl. 281 (1789). 



C. ixiniculata var. teretiuscula Wahl. Konigl. Acad. Handi. 

 XXIY. 140 (1803). 



Vignea teretiuscula Reich. Fl. Exc. 60 (1830). 

 Carex teretiuscula var. major Koch, Fl. Germ. 867 (1837). 

 Wats, and Coult., Gray's Man. 6 ed. 614; Mac, Fl.Can. II, 116; Britt., 

 Fl. N. J. 276; Upham, Fl Minn. 153; Herd., FL Eur. Russ. 140; Richt., PL 

 Eur. 150; Trautv. Fl. Sib. 124; Led., Fl. Ross. IV. 76; Hook., Fl. Gt. Brit. 

 450; Engl. Pax, Nat. Pflanz. II, 2, 124; Bail., Syn. Car. 136; Hart., FL 

 Scand. I, 478. 



Middle and Northern Europe; Asia to Himalaya mts.; 

 N. Zealand. 



North America: N. S., N. Br., Q., Ont., Man., Sas- 

 katchewan, Brit. Col. to Vancouver; S. 1o N. Eng., N. J., Penn. ; 

 W. to Minn, and Dak. 



Minn, valley: Forest district, not infrequent; swamps 

 and marshes. 



Herb.: Taylor 86, Lake Custin, Le Sueur Co.; Sa7id- 

 herg 523, Goodhue Co. 



Carex teretiuscula Gooden. var. raniosa Boott, 111. 145 

 (1858). 



C. paradoxa Boott, Hook. FL II, 213 (1840). 

 C. prairea Dew. Wood's Bot. 750 (1861). 

 Wats, and Coult., Gray's Man. 6 ed. 615; Mac, Fl. Can. IV, 116; Up- 

 ham, Fl. Minn. 153; Bail., Syn. Car. 136. 



North America: N. Y. to Minn., Saskatchewan, Dak., 

 Man.,L. Athabasca, Rocky mts., valley of the Columbia and 

 Vancouver. 



Minn, valley: Reported from S. and S. E. districts; 

 infrequent; wet places, swamps or marshes. 



