98 CONNECTICUT GEOL. AND NAT. HIST. SURVEY. [Bull. 



Care.v gyuaudra Schwein. 



Occasional or frequent. Swamps and wet places. June. 



Carex aquatflis Wahlenb. (aquatic). 



Rare. Wet meadows or cold bogs : Lyme and Oxford 

 (Harger), Salisbury (M. L. Fernald). June. 



Carex torta Boott (twisted). 



Banks of rivers and swift flowing streams. Rare near the 

 coast: Lyme (Graves), Darien (Harger & Eames). Becom- 

 ing frequent northward and common in the northwestern part 

 of the state. May. 



Roots very long and tough, the plant forming dense tufts 

 or beds. The fruit ripens early and falls very quickly. 



Carex stricta Lam. (straight). 

 Sword Grass. Nigger-heads. 



Very common. Swales, wet meadows and about ponds, 

 often forming large tussocks. June. 



One of the best known and most plentiful of our sedges. 

 Largely cut as bedding for stock. 

 Carex stricta Lam., var. curtissima Peck (very short). 



Rare. In swamps: Waterford (Graves), Lyme (Weather- 

 by). June. 

 Carex stricta Lam., var. angustata (Boott) Bailey (narrow). 

 Carex stricta Lam., var. xcrocarpa Britton. 



Wet meadows and in marshes. Rare in most districts r 

 Voluntown (Graves), Southington (Andrews), Windsor and 

 Salisbury (Bissell). Locally plentiful in marshes along the 

 lower Housatonic River (Eames). June. 

 Carex stricta Lam., var. decora Bailey (elegant). 

 Carex Haydcni Dewey. 



Rare. Low meadow'S: Franklin and Waterford (Graves), 

 East Hartford (Weatherby), Glastonbury and Southington 

 (Bissell). June. 



Carex aurea Xutt. (golden). 



Rare or local. Bloomfield, low field on outcrops of sand- 

 stone (Weatherby), Kent, moist calcareous rocks on the banks 

 of the Housatonic River (Eames & J. Pettibone), Kent, wet 

 upland pasture (Eames), Salisbury, moist meadows (Miss E. 

 L. Shay>-). June — July. 



