156 TWELFTH ANNUAL REPORT. 



C. criuita, Lam. Sedoje. 



Tliroughout the state, excepting perhaps far southward. North of lake Superior, 

 Jiuii. 



C. crinita, Lam., var. gynandra, Schw. & Torr. (C. gynandra, Schw.) 

 Sedge. 

 Agate bay, lake Superior, Juni, Rare. 



C. liiuosa, L. Sedge. 



Throughout the state, but infrequent. [North of lake Superior (at Fort William), 

 Maeoun; Emmet county, Iowa, Cratty, Arthur.] 



C . Magellanica, Lam. (C. irrigua, Smith.) Sedge. 



Throughout t lie state, excepting far southward, but rare. Put in bay, lake Superior, 

 J imi. 



C. Buxbaumii, WahL Sedge. 



Throughout the state. Blue Earth county, Leiherg; Emmet county, Iowa (frequent), 

 Cratty . 



C atrata, L. Sedge. 



Kakabeka falls, north of lake Superior, Maeoun; probably also in northern Minne- 

 sota. 



C. alpiua, Sw^artz. Sedge. 



Temperance river, lake Superior, Juni. North. 



C. aurea, Nutt. Sedge. 



Throughout the state, excepting perhaps far southward. Lake of the Woods 

 (thicket), Dawson, Maeoun; Minneapolis, Juni, Kassube. 



[C. aurea, Nutt., var. androgyna, Olney,* collected by Maeoun at Thunder bay, lake 

 Superior, should be looked for in northern Minnesota.] 



C. livida, Willd. Sedge. 



Greenwood river, lake Superior, Juni. Rare. North. 



C vagiuata, Tausch. Sedge. 



Certainly in swamps in northern Minnesota, Maeoun. North. 



C. Meadii, Dew. Mead's Sedge. 



Minneapolis, Kassuhe. [Manitoba, Maeoun; Iowa, Arthur.'] 



C Meadii, Dew., var. Bebl)ii, Arthur. f Sedge. 



Emmet county, Iowa, Cratty, Arthur; doubtless also in Minnesota. 



*Carex aurea, Nutt., var. androgyna, Olney. Culms short, more rigid ; leaves 

 erect, broader ; upper spikes more closely aggregated and denser flowerea, the upper 

 spike generally androgynous, having more or less fertile flowers at tlie top. Olney in 

 Bot. Rep. of King's Exyd. of the Fortieth Parallel. 



tCAREX Meadii, Dew., var. Bebbii (Olney). This was published in Olney 's Cariees 

 Bor.-Amer., Fasc. 1, No. 22, without comments, as a variety of C. panicea, L.. and has 

 never, I believe, been described. The following description will enable collectors to 

 Identify the plant :— Sterile spike with stalk two to four times its length ; fertile spikes 

 usually 2, erect, remote, slender-peduncled, rather loosely flowered ; sheaths of the 

 foliaceous bracts long and slightly inflated; perigynia and scales as in C. Meadii. except 



paler, and the former less distinctly nerved ; culms slender, somewhat roughish. 



Resembles C. tetanica, for which it is sometimes mistaken, in habit and in the loosely 

 flowered fertile spikes, only with longer peduncles, but C. Meadii in the perigynia and 

 scales ; it may be merely an attenuated form of the latter. Moist prairies, Illinois, 

 Wisconsin, and northwestwardly. Arthur in Contributions to the Flora of Iowa. No. VI. 



