66. 
Ivy Neck. One station: moist woods at head of Cheston Creek 
drainage. Hectare 4752. Canopy of Platanus occidentalis, Diospyros 
virginiana, Robinia pseudoacacia, etc. Associate species: Carex 
crinita, Glyceria s striata, Poa compressa, Carex vulpinoidea. 
Higman 733, 893. 
C. scoparia Schk. Sedge 
Ivy Neck. One station: north end of grassy abandoned field 
near Cheston Creek drainage. Hectare 4762. Associate species: Carex 
frankii, Juncus effusus, Juncus dichotomus. Higman 879. 
Section Cryptocarpae. 
Carex crinita Lam. ? Sedge 
Ivy Neck. One station: moist woods at source of Cheston Creek 
drainage. Hectare 4752. Canopy of Platanus occidentalis, Diospyros 
virginiana, Robinia pseudoacacia, etc. Associate species: Carex 
vulpinoidea, Carex tribuloides, Glyceria striata, Poa compressa. 
Higman 729. 
Section Montanae. 
Carex emmonsii Dewey Sedge 
Java Farm. One station: low, mossy bluffs at head of short, 
broad valley tributary to Muddy Creek, south of Fox Point Road. 
Hectare 3531. Canopy of mature Quercus alba, Quercus velutina, Carya 
tomentosa, and Pinus virginiana. Associate species: Luzula echinata, 
Carex digitalis. Higman 614, 615. 
Section Laxiflorae. 
1. Bract-sheaths, base of culms, and staminate scales 
strongly red-tinged. Expected (C. plantaginea). 
1. Bract-sheaths not red-tinged, base of culms rarely 
so; staminate scales greenish white to dull reddish 
brown. 
2. Perigynia sharply triangular, short-tapering at 
base, closely 35-50-nerved. 
3. Spikes erect, nearly sessile; leaf-blades smooth 
except on margins, the larger 12-25 mm. wide, 
those of fertile culms much smaller than those 
of the sterile. Expected (C. platyphylla). 
