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ford ; Valentine ; Johnstown ; Long Pine ; Kennedy ; St. 

 Paul; Loup City; Riverton, Franklin Co. (Bates) ; Minden 

 (Dr. Hapeman) ; Oshkosh; Hardy; Franklin; Thedford 

 (Uni.). Very common and widespread. 



31. C. douglasii Boott. In like situations; rather rare. Craw- 



ford; Valentine; Kennedy (Bates) ; Sheridan Co. ; Anselmo, 

 Custer Co.; Halsey and Thedford, Thomas Co. (Uni.). 



32. C. stipata Muhl. In saturated soil. Valentine; Long Pine; 



Red Cloud; Callaway; St. Paul (Bates); Thedford; An- 

 selmo; Plummer's Ford; Halsey; Crete (Uni.). 



33. C. crus-corvi Shufflw. In saturated soil. Nemaha (Bates) ; 



Lincoln (Uni.). Our coarsest species. Probably very rare, 

 as it is quite fit for collection all summer. 



34. C. marcida Boott. In dry soils, running down to low 



meadows. Very abundant in the western two thirds. Min- 

 den (Dr. Hapeman) ; Kennedy; Oasis, Cody, in Cherry Co.; 

 O'Neill; Scotia; St. Paul; Red Cloud (Bates); Alliance; 

 Anselmo ; Broken Bow ; Pine Ridge ; Mullen ; Thedford ; 

 Wiegand, Knox Co.; Franklin (Uni.). Usually dioecious; 

 varying much in- size and color of perigynia. 



35. C. teretiuscula Gooden. In marshes, forming tussocks ; rare, 



Simeon on Gordon Creek, on Geo. Beer's old claim (Bates). 



" On Middle Loup River, near Thedford," Rydberg, and a 



second sheet with no locality, but a different date (Uni.). 



a. var. prairea (Dewey) Britton (C diandra ramosa 

 (Boott.) Fernald). Burwell, in marsh of the North 

 Loup, half a mile north of town (Bates). A good 

 variety ; hardly a species. 



36. C. gravida Bailey. In dry woods and prairies; very com- 



mon. Minden (Dr. Hapeman) ; Holly, Sheridan Co.; Val- 

 entine; Callaway; Lincoln; Red Cloud (Bates); Ponca; 

 Diller, Jefferson Co. ; Shelton, Buffalo Co. ; Kearney Co. ; 

 Lincoln; Nebraska City; War Bonnet Canon, Sioux Co. 

 (Uni.), Probably the most widespread species in the state, 

 long confused with other species. Several of our sheets 

 would fall under var, laxifolia Bailey, which is nothing but a 



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