LIST OF HIGHER SEED-PRODUCING PLANTS. 97 



Androconia NEES, Hook. Jour. Bot, II, 396 (1836). 



Malachochaete, Hymenocliaete NEES, Linn. IX, 292, 293 

 (1835). 



Nomochloa, Hymenocliaeta BEAUV. Lestib. Ess. Fain. Gyp. 

 37, 43 (1819). 



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



Pterolepis SCHRAD. Gott. Gel. Anz. 2071 (1821). 



Heleophylax LESTIB. Ess. Fam. Cyp. 41 (1819). 



Hellmuthia, Anthopliyllum STEUD. Syn. Glum. II, 90, 160 

 (1855). 



Elytrospermum C A. MEY. Mem. Sav. Etr. Petr. I, 200 (1841?). 



Desmosclioeims HOOK. f. Fl. N. Zeal. I, 271 (1867). 



Eleogiton, Holoschoeuus LINK, Hort. Berol. I, 284, 293 (1827). 



Dichostylis BEAUV. Lestib. Ess. Fam. Cyp. 39 (1819). 



Isolepis B. BR. Prodr. 221 (1810). 



Nemum DESVX. Ham. Prodr. Ind. Occ. 13 (1825). 



Baeothryon EHRH. Beitr, IV, 147 (1789). 



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

 Engler and Prantl, Nat. Pflanz. 2, II, 111 (Pax); Schenck, Palaeopkyt. 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; PL King, 5; PL Wheel., 5. 



Fossil species: Cyperites? Miocene, Oeningen. 



Scirpus atrovirens MUHL. Gram. 43 (1817). 

 ? 8. polyphyllus 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.; Bollard 217, Jordan, 

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

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

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



Scirpus sylraticus LINN. var. microcarpus (PRESL). 



S. microcarpus PRESL, Rel. Haenk. I, 193 (1830). 

 S. sylvaticus HOOK. FL Am. II, 230 (1840). 

 8. knticularis TORR. Cyp. 328 (1836). 



S. sylvaticus var. digynus BOECKL. Linn. XXXVI, 727 (1862). 

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