68. 
8. Culms red-tinged at base; lower pistillate 
spikes on long capillary peduncles; stam- 
inate scales strongly tinged with reddish 
brown; staminate spike long-peduncled; 
perigynia broadly obovoid, 2.5-3.2 mm. 
long. Expected (C. gracilescens). 
Carex digitalis Willd. 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 emmonsii. Higman 1129. 
C. blanda Dewey Sedge 
Java Farm. One station: moist wooded bank of Muddy Creek, upstream 
from culvert of old entrance road. Hectare 2467. Canopy of Platanus 
occidentalis, Fagus grandifolia, Liriodendron tulipifera, étc.; 
understory of Cornus florida, Lindera benzoin. Associate species: 
Carex cephalophora, Onoclea sensibilis, Duchesnea indica, Glyceria 
striata. 
Ivy Neck. One station: east shore of Scaffold Creek. Canopy 
of Quercus alba, Quercus velutina, Carya tomentosa. Understory of 
Viburnum prunifolium. Higman 546, 786. 
Section Virescentes. 
Carex swanii (Fern.) Mack. Sedge 
Java Farm. Moderately abundant under mature canopy of Fagus 
aren Quercus alba, Quercus velutina, Liriodendron tulipifera, 
Carya tomentosa, and Liquidanbar styraciflua. Collected at shoulders 
of old Muddy Creek Road, near old entrance road, and on slopes over- 
looking Muddy Creek and its upper tidal portion. Higman 698, 712, 
Kee Beye 
Section Vesicariae. 
Carex lurida Wahl. Sedge 
Java Farm. Infrequent along tributary streams of Muddy Creek (tidal 
portion). South-facing slope. Canopy of Fagus grandifolia, Quercus 
velutina, Carya tomentosa, and Liriodendron tulipifera. Associate species: 
Saururus cernuus. 
Ivy Neck. Infrequent, in salt marsh at head of Cheston Creek 
estuary. Associate species: Typha latifolia, Scirpus americana. 
Higman 399, 738, 986. 
