NOTES ON OUR LOCAL PLANTS 15 



Neither of these are quite typical. There is only a small space 

 between the staminate and pistillate spikes, but otherwise normal. 

 This species is common around Detroit, Mich. Scarce where I 

 have recorded it, and I have never found it elsewhere in the area 

 embraced by this list. 



Family 12. SPARGANIACEAE Agardh, Theor Syst. 

 PI. 13. (1858). 



SPARGANIUM Dioscorides, 4, 21, also Gesner, Matthioh, 

 Lobelius, Dodonaeus, Tabernaemontanus, Morison, J. and C. 

 Bauhin, etc., etc. 



Sparganiuni Tour. Els. Bot. p. 422, (1694), Inst. R. H. p. 530, 

 (1700) Sparganium Linn. Syst. (1735) Gen. PI. 281, (1737), p. 

 418 (1854). Sp. PI. p. 971, (1753)- 



Sparganium eurycarpum Engelm., in A. Gray, Man. 2nd Ed. p. 

 430, (1856). 



The plant grows near Benton Harbor, Mich., Berrien Co.), 

 in abundance. Edges of ponds and back water of the river are 

 covered by large areas of it. It was found also at Millers, Ind. 

 (Lake Co.). No. 9290 U. N. D. Herb, from Benton Harbor. No. 

 9288, Roadside pool near Mishawaka, (St. Joseph Co.). 



Sparganium simplex Hudson, Fl. Angl. 2nd Ed. p. 401, (1788). 



No. 474 U. N. D. Herb. Sagunay (Laporte Co.) No. 2152 

 Millers, Ind. Lake Maxinkuckee (Marshall Co.). H. W. Clarke, 

 Millers and Tolleston, Ind. Higley & Raddin. Pine, Ind. Hill. 



Sparganium minimum C. Bauhin. Prod. p. 24, (1620) also. 

 Pin. p. 15. 



Sparganium minimum Fries. Sum. Veg. 2, p. 560, (1746). 



No. 1807 and No. 2693 Rum Village near South Bend, Ind. 

 (St. Joseph Co.). (Lake Co.) State Cat. Pine, Ind. (Lake Co.) 

 Babcock. Clarke, Ind. (Lake Co.) Hill, also Millers, Ind. (Lake 

 Co.). 



Order 7. HELOBIAE. 

 Bartling, Ord. Nat. p. 70, (1830). 



Naiadales Britton, Man. p. 40, (1905). 



Family 13. POTAMOGETONEAE Dumortier, B. C. 



Flor. Belg. Stam. p. 163, (1827). Naiadaceae Lindley J. 

 Nat. Syst., Ed. 2, p. 366, (1836) in part. 



