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. Neb. 23; Wats, and Coult., Gray's Man. ed. 6, 615. 



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

 moist fields. 



HERB. : Taylor 514, Mud lake, Waseca Co. ; Taylor 

 504, Minnesota Lake. 



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

 (1794). 



C. diandra SCHKR. Baier. Fl. 281 (1789). 



C. paniculata . var. teretiuscula WAHL. Konigl. Acad. Handi. 

 XXIV. 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., PI. 

 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. ; Sand- 

 berg 523, Goodhue Co. 



Carex teretiuscula GOODEN. var. ramosa 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. 



