LIST OF HIGHER SEED-PRODUCING PLANTS. 97 



Aiulrocoma Nees, Hook. Jour. Bot. II, 396 (1836). 

 31alachocliaete, Hj lueuochaete Nees, Linn. IX, 292, 293 

 (1835). 



Xomocliloa, Hymeiiochaeta Beauv. Lestib. Ess. Fam. Cyp. 

 37, 43 (1819). 



Blysmus Panz. R. and S. Syst. II, Mant. 41 (1824). 



Pterolepi.s Schrad. Giitt. Gel. Anz. 2071 (1821 1. 



Heleophylax Lestib. Ess. Faiii. Cyp. 41 (1819). 



Helliniithia, Autliophylluiu Steud. Syn. Glum. II, 90, 160 

 (1855). 



Elytrospermulu C A. Mey. Mem. Sav. Etr. Petr. I, 200 (1841?). 



Desmoschoeuus Hook. f. Fl. N. Zeal. I, 271 (1867). 



Eleog-iton, Holo.sclioeuus Link, Hort. Berol. I, 284, 293 (1827). 



DicbostylLs Beauv. Lestib. Ess. Fam. Cyp. 39 (1819). 



Isolepis E. Bk. Prodr. 221 (1810). 



Nemiiiii Desvx. Ham. Prodr. Ind. Occ. 13 (1825). 



Baeothryoii Ehrh, Beitr, lY, 147 (1789). 

 Benth. and Hook., Gen. PL III, 1049; Durand, Ind. Gen. Phan. 457; 

 Engler and Prantl, Nat. Pflcmz. 2, II, 111 (Pax): Schenck, Palaeophyt. 385. 

 Living species: 200; 300 described; cosmopolitan. 

 Europe, 37; Russia, 20; Russian Europe, 10; U. S., 35-40; Can- 

 ada, 10; S. Sts., 14; E. Sts., 17-19; Rocky mts., 10; California, 

 12-15; PI. King, 5; PI. Wheel., 5. 



Fossil species: Cyperites? Miocene, Oeningen. 



Scirpus atrovirens Muhl. Gram. 43 (1817). 

 ? S. pohjpkyllus Vahl, Enum. II, 274 (1806). 

 S. sylvaticus var. atrovirens Gray, Man. ed. 2, (1856). 

 Wats, and Coult., Gray's Man. 6 ed. 581; Britt., Fl. N. J. 265, Webb., 

 Fl. Neb. 98; Upham, Fl. Minn. 152; Wats., Fl. Calif. II, 219; Mac, Fl. Can. 

 II, 101; Coult., Fl. Colo. 368; Cov., Fl. Ark. 230. 



North America : N. S., N. Br., Q., Ont. to Man, and 

 Saskatchewan; S. to N. Eng. and N. J.; W. to Minn., Neb., 

 Kan., Ark.. Ind. Terr., Colo, and to Calif, and Oregon. 



Minn, valley : Throughout ; marshes and bogs ; 

 abundant. 



Herb.: Taylor 763, Glenwood; Sheldon 1303, Lake 

 Benton; Sheldon 1081, Springfield; Sheldon 1042, Sleepy Eye; 

 Sheldon 673, Gaiter lake, Waseca Co. ; Ballard 217, Jordan, 

 Scott Co.; Taylor 634, Minnesota lake; MacM. and Sheld. 41, 

 Brainerd; Sandbercj 519, Red Wing; Oestlund 217, Hennepin 

 •Co. ; Sheldon 252, Lake Washington, Le Sueur Co. 



Scirpus sylvaticus Linn. var. niicrocarpus (Presl). 

 <S. microcarpiis Presl, Rel. Haenk. I, 193 (18.30). 

 S. sylvaticus Hook. Fl. Am. II, 2.30 (1840). 

 S. lenticularis Torr. Cyp. 328 (1836). 



*S'. sylvaticus var. digynus Boeckl. Linn. XXXYI, 727 (1862). 

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