422 PLANT LIFE OF ALABAMA. 



ALABAMA: Central Prairie region. Low woods. Montgomery County, Peutulalla 

 Creek. Infrequent. 

 Type locality : "Hab. in Peusylvauia." 

 Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Carex tribuloides turbata Bailey, Mem. Torr. Club, 1 : 55. 1889. 



BLUNT BROOM SEDGE. 



Carex lagopodioides var. Boott, 111. 3: 117, t. 371, f. 1. 1862. 



Alleghenian to Louisianian area. Southern New England to Michigan; south to 

 Alabama and Louisiana. 



ALABAMA: Central Prairie region. Coast plain and open marshes. Dallas County, 

 Uniontown, in low wet woods. Mobile County, river marshes. May, June; not rare. 



Type locality: " Shady copses and woods, Massachusetts to Michigan and south- 

 ward to Alabama, Mohr, and Louisiana, Langlois." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Carex scoparia Schk. Riedgr. Nacht. 20, f.175. 1806. POINTED BKOOM SEDGE. 



Carex scoparia var. -minor Boott, 111. 3 : 116, /. 369. 1862. 



Allegheuiau and Carolinian areas. Nova Scotia and Manitoba; New England, 

 west to Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, Colorado; south along the mountains to North 

 Carolina. 



ALABAMA: Mountain region. Blount County, Mulberry River. June; rare. 



Type locality: "Hab. in America boreali." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Carex albolutescens Schweiu. Ann. Lye. N. Y. 1:66. 1824. Bailey, Bull. Torr. 



Club, 20:422. 1893. GREENISH-WHITE SEDGE. 



Carex straminea var. foenea Torr. Ann. Lye. N. Y. 3:395. 1836. Not C. foenea 

 Willd. 1809. 



Gray, Man. ed. 6, 622. Coulter, Contr. Nat. Herb. 2 : 484. 



Alleghenian to Louisianian area. -From Florida along the coast to New England; 

 (Mount Desert Island) west along the Gulf shore to Texas. 



ALABAMA: Coast plain and Littoral region. Marshes, ditches. Mobile and Bald- 

 win counties. May, June; common. 



Type locality : " Carolina and Pennsylvania." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Carex festucacea Willd. Sp. PI. 4 : 242. 1805. FESCUE SEDGE. 



Carex straminea Schk. Riedgr. Nacht. 23, /. 174. 1806. 



C. straminea var. brevior Dewey, Am. Journ. Sci. 11 : 158. 1826. 



C. straminea festucacea Tuckerm. -Enum. Meth. 18. 1843. 



C. straminea typica Boott, 111. 3 : 121, t. 387. J862. 



Ell. Sk. 2 : 535. Gray, Man. ed. 6, 622. Chap. Fl. 535. Coulter, Coutr. Nat. Herb. 

 2:484. 



MEXICO. 



Alleghenian to Louisianian area. Ontario; New England west to Michigan, Min- 

 nesota, Dakota, and Nebraska ; south from New York to Florida and west to Texas. 



ALABAMA: Undoubtedly over the State. Central Pine belt to Coast plain. Dry 

 woods, copses. Tuscaloosa County (E. A. Smith). Mobile County, Springhill. April, 

 May; frequent. 



Type locality: " Hab. in America boreali." 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



Carex alata Torr. Ann. Lye. N. Y. 3 : 396. 1836. BROAD-WINGED SEDGJE. 



Carex straminea alata (Torr.) Bailey, Carex Cat. 1884. 



Gray, Man. ed. 6, 622. Chap. Fl. 535. Britt. & Brown, 111. Fl. 1 : 359. 



Canadian zone to Loimianian area. Ontario west to Manitoba; New England 

 (Mount Desert Island) to Michigan, southern Illinois, and along the coast south to 

 Florida, Alabama, and Mississippi. 



ALABAMA: Coast plain. Swamps. Mobile County, river marshes. May. Three 

 to 5 feet high. Frequent. 



Type locality : " Newbern, N. C., Mr. Groom!; Macon, Georgia, Dr. Loomis!" 



Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 



