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Minn, valley: N. E. district; woods and river banks. 

 HERB. : ?Kassube 276, Minneapolis. 



Carex laxiflora LAM. Enc. Meth. Ill, 392 (1789). 

 C. striatula MICHX. Fl. N. Am. I, 173 (1803;. 

 C. conoidea MUHL. Diss. Gram. 248 (1817). 

 C. anceps SCHWEIN. and TURK. Mon. 343 (1825) in part. 

 C. Uanda DEW. Sill. Journ. X, 45 (1826). 

 C. anceps \ar. Uanda HOOK. Fl. Bor.-Am. II, 226 (1840). 

 C. anceps var. striatula CAREY, Gray's Man. ed. 1, 554 (1848). 

 C. ignola DEW. Sill. Journ. VIII, 348 (1849). 

 C. laxiflora var. striatula CAREV, Gray's Man. ed. 2, 524 (1852). 

 Wats, and Coult., Gray's Man. 6 ed. 607; Mac., Fl. Can. II, 155; Britt., 

 Fl. N. J. 274; Webb., Fl. Neb. 98; Upham, Fl. Minn. 157; Chap., Fl. S. St. 

 540r Mac., Fl. Can. II, 382; Cov., Fl. Ark. 231; Bail., Syn. Car. 114. 



North America: Ont. to N. Eng., N. J. and Fla. ; W. 

 to Minn, ancl Mo. 



Minn, valley: Forest district; Ft. Snelling to Blue 

 Earth Co.; wet meadows; infrequent. 



HERB. : Sandberg 546, Red Wing. 



Carex flava LINN. Spec. 975 (1753) var. \iridula (Micnx. ) 

 BAIL. Typ. Car. 31 (1889). 



C. viridula MICHX. Fl. N. Am. II, 170 (1803). 

 C. irregularis SCHWEIN. An. Tab. (1823). 

 C. oeden SCHWEIN. and TORR. Mon. Car. 334 (1825). 

 ? C. demissa HORNEM. Spreng. Syst. Ill, 822 (1826). 

 Wats, and Coult., Gray's Man. 6 ed. 606; Mac., Fl. Can. II, 140; Britt., 

 Fl. N. J. 273; Bail., Syn. Car. Ill; Upham, Fl. Minn. 158; Richt., PI. Eur. 

 164 (spec.); Herd., Fl. Eur. Russ. 140 (spec.,; Hook., Fl. Gt. Brit. 461 

 (spec.); Cov., Fl. Ark. 231; Engl. Pax, Nat. Pflanz. II, 2, 125; Hart., Fl. 

 Scand. I, 459 (spec.). 



North America: Greenland, N. S., N. Br., Q., Ont., 

 Man. to Brit. Col., Vancouver and Hudson Bay; S. to N. Eng., 

 Penn., N. J. ; W. to Minn., Dak. and Mont. 



Minn, valley: N. E. district; rare; wet places and in 

 rocky soil. 



HERB.: MacM. and Sheld., Brainerd (var. graminis 

 Bail.). 



Carex crawei DEW. Torr., Bot. N. Y. II, 408 (1843). 



C. heterostacliya TORR. Sill. Journ. II, 248 (1846). 

 C. crawei var. heterostachya DEW. Sill. Journ. XLII, 4 (1866). 

 Wats, and Coult., Gray's Man. 6 ed. 606; Mac., Fl. Can. IE, 153; Up- 

 ham, Fl. Minn. 157; Bail., Syn. Car. 110. 



North America: Anticosti, Ont., Owen Sound and 

 Man. to N. Y., 111. and Minn. 



Minn, valley: S. central district; peat bogs and wet 

 places in forest. 



