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look worn and bedraggled. The species has a wide range, from the 

 far north in Alaska south into Georgia, but is comparatively little 

 known, and its charms attract the sight of but few as it grows in 

 the remote marshes. In 1907 we saw some in a tamarack bog in 

 the neighborhood of St. Paul, Minn. 



130. WATER CLUB-RUSH 



SCIRPUS SUBTEKMINALIS Torr. 



Rare in the neighborhood of the lake. Its occurrence is attested 

 by a single herbarium specimen. 



131. WEAK-STALKED CLUB-RUSH 



SCIRPUS DEBILIS Pursh 



A low rush, looking considerably like a miniature bulrush, 

 usually growing at the water's edge in wet soil. A few plants 

 grew along the west shore of Lost Lake on the border of the quaky 

 shore. It formed fairly large patches at Bass Lake, along the 

 shore in wet sand. 



132. THREE-SQUARE; CHAIR-MAKER'S RUSH 



SCIRPUS AMERICANUS Peis. 



This is the most common bulrush about the lake. With the ex- 

 ception of a rather large patch in a flat springy field near the Mili- 

 tary Academy and back of the row of Lombardy poplars fringing 

 the road in that region, this plant does not form large patches, nor 

 extend far from shore either into the water or back on the land, 

 but it forms a rather narrow fringe along the shore of the lake, 

 growing on the wet sandy beach or out in the water to the 

 depth of about 18 inches or 2 feet. Patches occur on shore 

 about the Military Academy grounds. From the Culver railroad 

 bridge it fringes the shore with few interruptions to Long Point. 

 There are only a few scattered plants along the east shore of Long 

 Point. Below Green's it begins again and extends, with a few un- 

 important interruptions, to Norris Inlet and in front of Norris's. 

 Plants grow on shore back from the lake a little way on the springy 

 hill by Overmyer's and on another springy hill beyond Norris's. 

 There are no patches along the east shore of the lake from Norris's 

 to near the Military Academy grounds. Like the other common 

 bulrush of the lake, and like the various species of Eleocharis, this 

 plant spreads by means of rootstocks and grows out in the water in 

 straight rows. In the autumn the part above water gradually dies 

 and turns brown, but the portion under water remains green all 



