36 Order POALES 
40. Carex vulpinoidea Michx. 
Throughout the state, common in wet meadows and swampy places 
in the eastern part. Anselmo; Bloomington; Elmwood; Nebraska 
City; Nemaha; O’Neill; Ponca; Scotia; Talmage. 
41. Carex sartwellii Dewey. 
In wet meadows. Arabia; Kennedy; O’Neill. 
42. Carex rosea Schk. 
In eastern part of state, common on bluffs of the Missouri. Fre- 
mont; Lincoln; Nebraska City; Nemaha; Ponca; Weeping Water. 
43. Carex sparganioides Muhl. 
In woods in the southeastern part of the state. Nebraska City; 
Lincoln; Nemaha. 
44, Carex muhlenbergii Schk. 
In dry woods in the eastern part of the state. Nebraska City; Ne- 
maha. . 
45. Carex interior Bailey. 
By springs and in wet meadows. Burwell; Callaway; Simeon; Thed- 
ford; Valentine. 
46. Carex tribuloides Wahl. 
Rare in low meadows. Ewing; Lincoln; Long Pine; Nemaha. 
47. Carex scoparia Schk. 
Common on low, wet meadows. Ewing; Grand Island; Long Pine; 
Minden; Springview; Thedford; Valentine. 
48. Carex cristatella Britton. 
In meadows and bogs, not common. Ewing; Lincoln; Long Pine; 
Loup City; Nebraska City; Neligh; Norfolk; St. Paul; Wabash; 
Weeping Water. 
49. Carex straminea Willd. 
Minden; Neligh; Thedford; Valentine. 
50. Carex festucacea Willd. 
Common in moist or dry soil throughout the state. Anselmo; Beat- 
rice; Ewing; Lincoln; Nemaha; Nebraska City; O’Neill; Otoe county; 
Ponca; Valentine; Weeping Water. 
51. Carex bicknellii Britton. 
In the eastern part of the state. Ewing; O’Neill; Weeping Water. 
2. POACEZX. (GRAMINEZ.) 
Grass Family. 
This is a very large family containing about 3,500 species. Eco- 
nomically it is the most important family of plants, as it includes all 
our cereals and many native and cultivated forage plants. 
Key to the Tribes. 
Spikelets or clusters of spikelets, in two rows, sessile, in true spikes. 
The two rows on one side of the straight or curved rachis, form- 
ing a one-sided spike. (Some Panicee may appear to belong 
here.) 3. Chloridez. 
The two rows on opposite sides of the zigzag rachis which is ter- 
minal on the main stems. 2. Hordez. 
