Lake Maxinkuckee, Physical and Biological Survey 239 

 113. NODDING WILD RYE 



ELYMUS CANADENSIS L. 



A stout handsome grass growing in fairly dense patches in low 

 rich ground in various places about the lake. There were good 

 patches along the railroad between Long Point and Culver, along 

 the shore between the Culver railroad bridge and depot, and by 

 Lakeview Hotel. It also grew on the beach south of the Inlet and 

 near Norris's. Scattered pretty generally along the west and south 

 sides of the lake. 



114. BOTTLE-BRUSH GRASS 



HYSTRIX HYSTRIX (L.) Millsp. 



Not very abundant, but widely distributed in rather moist rich 

 places. Scattered, in the eastern part of Farrar's woods, where it 

 was seen dead ripe, November 14, 1900. 



FAMILY 16. CYPERACE.E. SEDGE FAMILY 



This large and well-marked family is remarkably well repre- 

 sented in the region about the lake, the great variety of soil and 

 moisture offer favorable habitats for all sorts of sedges, including 

 those that prefer dry situations, woodlands, dunes, or moist ground. 



Moreover, the flat lake plains or "prairies" are par excellence 

 the situations adapted to sedge growth and over these great areas 

 sedges of many sorts, but especially of the genus Carex, form the 

 predominant, even almost the exclusive type of vegetation. Of the 

 sedges, especially those of the genus Carex, there was so great an 

 abundance and variety all coming into fruit about the same time, 

 and that at a time when fish-spawning, bird migration and other 

 important activities were at their height, that not nearly all seen 

 could be collected. All, or nearly all of the species of sedges listed, 

 are represented by herbarium specimens. Many others such as C. 

 tuckermani, hystricina, cephalophora, hirtifolia, sterilis, wildenovii, 

 and so on were provisionally identified in the field, but were not 

 collected. It is probable, indeed, that the great majority of the 

 81 forms listed for the state by Coulter, are to be found in the 

 neighborhood of the lake. 



115. LOW KYLLINGA 



KYLLINGA PUMILA Michx. 



A dainty little sedge, so inconspicuous as to be easily overlooked, 

 found growing in moist places. It is delightfully fragrant, both 

 when green and after being dried. It was found in low places 



