THE IOWA SEDGE- ;- : 



Very rare in cold bogs. The long creeping rootstocks 

 each send up numerous culms to the height of 10 to 20 

 inches. This is an example of a high northern plant which 

 barelv comes within our limits. Also in northern Europe. 



Emmet county, in a bog two miles north of Armstrong 

 June. 1878, the onlv locality known in the state. Crafty. 



45. C. stenophylla Wahl. K. Acad. Handl. ser. 2. xxiv. 



142 (1803 ). PL vi. 



Illus. Flora. 1. 341. tig. 891; Gray's Man.. 6th ed.. 614: Arthur, C01 



Iowa, v. No. 860a; MacMillan, Metas. Minn. Val., 115; Webber. FI. 

 Neb . 98; Rvdberg. FI. Bl. HilU. S. D 527 - limek, Proc. Iowa Acad. 



Sci . iv. - 1 



Very dry ground on gravelly knoiU. This plant, also a 

 native of northern and central Europe, here rind- - stern 

 limit in the United States. It ranges from Iowa to Minnesota, 

 Nebraska. Kansas. Colorado and northward. So far as 

 known it is the onlv strictlv western species of the genus oc- 

 curring within our limits. This is the C. siccata of Arthur's 

 Cont. FI. Iowa. . 1882 . 



Estherville. June. 1SS2. in very dry ground, forming a dense 

 patch on school-house block, the station since destroyed: 

 Lvon countv. Aug. 1. 1S96. very old plants, the perigynia 

 turned black, slightly larger than in the Emmet county plant. 

 Shimek. In June. 1897. Prof. Shimek again collected this 

 plant in the same locality, growing with Buffalo Grass \ Bul- 

 bilis dactyloides 1 Xutt.'i Raf. 



46. C. conjuncta Booit. 111. Car.. 122 1862 . 



Illus. Flora. 1. 342 _ -::: Grajr's Man.. 6th cd.. 614: Arthur. Cont. FI. 

 Iowa, in; Hitchcock, PI. Ames, 525; MacMillan. Metas. Minn. Val., 

 115; Tracv. FI. Mo.. 95 : Brendel. FI. Peoriana. 62: Bruhin. Zwei. Xach. 

 FI. Wis.. 643. 



Rare in woods, central and southern portions of the state. 

 Johnson county, 1S95. Shimek; Story county, Hitchcock; 

 Kellogg, June 1876. collector unknown. 



