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effort to reproduce vegetatively in lieu of seeds. In 1904 a good 

 deal was found scattered in a flat north of the ice-ridge pond on 

 the east side, and south of Aubeenaubee Creek. 



135. EEDDISH BULRUSH 



SCIRPUS LINEATUS Michx. 



A scirpus considerably resembling the next, which is more com- 

 mon and better known. The spikelets are cylindrical and narrow, 

 and rather inconspicuous. This plant is fairly common in low 

 places about the lake but not on the shores of the lake itself. By 

 June 11, 1901, it was still very short, but in bloom wherever found. 



136. WOOL-GRASS 



SCIRPUS CYPERINUS (L.) Kunth 



Common throughout the greater part of the country at the edges 

 of pools and in wet meadows. It rarely grows in large continuous 

 patches, but forms small clumps or single tussocks. Rather com- 

 mon in the low flat between the road and lake south of Outlet Bay. 

 It was also abundant in a marsh west of the dunes. This is the 

 handsomest of the plants belonging to the genus Scirpus, though 

 not so showy as several members of the genus Eriophorum in which 

 it has sometimes been placed. It is a tall, stately plant, the small 

 spikelets on long slender drooping pedicles, becoming fuzzy with 

 gray brown bristles, make a large handsome head. 



137. COMMON HEMICARPHA 



HEMICARPHA MICRANTHA (Vahl) Pax. 



A very little sedge, growing in small tufts a few inches high, 

 the fruit usually 2 minute cone-like spikes placed side by side. It 

 grows in wet sand and was found along Yellow River a few miles 

 north of the lake and at Fletcher's Lake. None was found in the 

 immediate vicinity of Lake Maxinkuckee. It was probably pres- 

 ent, but overlooked. 



138. DULICHIUM 



DULICHIUM ARUNDINACEUM (L.) Britton 



A rather homely, inconspicuous sedge, frequently well inter- 

 mixed and hidden by the bulrushes near the water's edge. At 

 Lake Maxinkuckee it grew in the swamp along the edge of the lake 

 between Farrar's and Overmyer's. It was also seen in the tam- 

 arack west of the lake. It reaches its fullest development, how- 

 ever, in the drained sphagnum swamp in Walley's woods, about half 

 of which it almost completely covers. 



