68 MINNESOTA BOTANICAL STUDIES. 



Distichlis spicata (Linn.) Greene, Bull. Cilif. Acad. 

 2:415. 1887. 



Not previously reported from Minnesota. Collected near 

 Morton, Renville county, Minn. {Conway MacMillan, June, 

 1890). 



Scirpus sylvaticiis Linn. Spec. 51. 1753. 



Not previously reported from Minnesota, Typical specimens 

 of this plant were found near Milaca, Mille Lacs county, Minn. 

 {E. P. S., July, 1892). 



Scirpus sylvaticus Linn, forma cephaloideus n. f. 



Erect, rigid, growing in clumps of from fifteen to twenty 

 plants, 9 to 15 dm. in height, with narrow leaves; the panicle 

 contracted into a glomerate head; bristles 4 or 6, not down- 

 wardly barbed, but twice exceeding the triangular achene. 



Collected in sandy clearings between Milaca and Bridgman, 

 Mille Lacs county, Minn. {E. P. S., June, 1892). 



Scirpus torreyi Olney, Proc. Prov. Frankl, Soc. 1 : 32. 

 1847. 



This plant was reported by Lapham as occurring in Minne- 

 sota. It was collected at White Bear lake, Washington county, 

 Minn. [L. H. Baileij, July lS86); low swampy ground, border- 

 ing Chisago county, Minn. {B. G. Taylor, July, 1892). 



Scirpus nanus Spreng. Pug. 1:4. 1815. 



Not previously reported from central Minnesota. The only 

 reported Minnesota collection of this species of which I know 

 is that of L. H. Bailey, at Vermilion lake, in 1886. 



It was collected at Taylor's Falls, Minn., on the rocks in 

 springy places {E. P. S., Sept., 1891); and in wet, boggy places 

 near the "narrows". Center city, Chisago county, Minn. {B. G. 

 Taylor, Aug., 1892). 



Carex lupulina IvEuhl. var. polystaehya Torr. & Schw. 

 Monogr. 337. 1825. 



Not previously reported from Minnesota. Collected on the 

 banks of Cannon river, Burnside township, Goodhue county, 

 Minn. {A. P. Anderson, Aug., 1893). 



