LIST OF HIGHER SEED-PRODUCING PLANTS. 89 



Minn, valley: Throughout; infrequent; banks of 

 streams and lakes. 



HERB.: Foote 7, Worthington; Sandberg 590, Red 

 Wing; Oestlund 337, Minneapolis; Bailey 265, St. Louis river; 

 Sheldon 1375, Lake Benton [(forma minor (Vas.)]. 



HISTRIX MOENCH, Meth. 294 (1794). 

 Asprella WILLD. Enutn. 132 (1809). 

 Gymuosticlmm SCHREB. Beschr. Gras. II, 127 (1772). 

 Benth. and Hook.. Gen. PI. Ill, 1207; Durand, Ind. Gen. Phan. 280; 

 Engler and Prantl, Nat. PJfanz. 2, II, 88 (Hackel); O. Kuntze, Bev. Gen. 



II, 777. 



Living species: 4; N. America, 2; Siberia, 1; New 



Zealand, 1. N. America, California, 1; Atl. states, 1. 



Hystrix hystrix (LiNN. ). 



Elymus hystrix LINN. Spec. ed. 2, 124 (1762). 

 Gymnostichum hystrix SCHREB. Gras. 47 (1769). 

 Hystrix patula MOENCH, Meth. (1794). 

 Asprella hystrix WILLD. Enum. I, 132 (1809). 



A. angustifolia NUTT. Trans. Am. Phil. Soc. ser. 5, 151 ( ). 



Wats, and Coult., Gray's Man. 6 ed. 674; Upham, Fl. Minn. 170; Britt., 

 Fl. N. J. 299; Chap., Fl. S. St. 567; Mac., Fl. Can. II, 248; Cov., Fl. Ark. 

 238; Webb., Appx. Neb. 24. 



North America: N. Br., Q., Ont., Man. and Saskatch- 

 ewan; S. to N. Y., N. J. and Ga.; W. to Minn., Dak., Neb., 



III. and Ark. 



Minn, valley: Throughout, particularly forest dis- 

 trict; woods. 



HERB. : Sheldon 459, Madison Lake, Blue Earth Co. ; 

 Bollard 128, Chaska; Sandberg 592, Red Wing; 593, Chisago 

 Co. ; 594, Red Wing. 



IX, CYPERACEAE. Sedge Family. 



Endlicher, Gen. PI. 109 (1840); Benth. and Hook. Gen. PI III, 1037 

 (1883); Pax in Engler and Prantl, Nat. Pflanz. 2, II, 98 (1887). 



Genera: 65; cosmopolitan; extinct, 1-2. 

 Species: 3000; living; 3-4? extinct. 



HEMICARPHA NEES, Edin. Phil. Journ. XVII, 263 (1834). 

 Benth. and Hook., Gen. PL III, 1053; Durand, Ind. Gen. Phan. 458; 

 Engler and Prantl, Nat. Pflanz. 2, II, 10o (Pax). 



Living species: 3; 1 widely distributed in tropical and 

 subtropical regions; 1, California; 1, Atl. N. America, Mexico 

 and Brazil. 



