. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions, from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia, and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102d meridian. Botany; Botany. 34° CYPERACEAE. Vol. I.. 2. Hemicarpha aristulata (Coville) Smyth. Awned Hemicarpha. Fig. 837. H. micrantha aristulata Coville, Bull. Torr. Club 21: 36. 1894. H. aristulata Smyth, Trans. Kans. Acad. Sci. 16: 163. 1899. H. intermedia Piper; Piper & Beattie, Fl. Pal. Reg. 36: 1901. Similar to the preceding species; culms 8' high or less, longer than the setac
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. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions, from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia, and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102d meridian. Botany; Botany. 34° CYPERACEAE. Vol. I.. 2. Hemicarpha aristulata (Coville) Smyth. Awned Hemicarpha. Fig. 837. H. micrantha aristulata Coville, Bull. Torr. Club 21: 36. 1894. H. aristulata Smyth, Trans. Kans. Acad. Sci. 16: 163. 1899. H. intermedia Piper; Piper & Beattie, Fl. Pal. Reg. 36: 1901. Similar to the preceding species; culms 8' high or less, longer than the setaceous leaves; involucral leaves 1-3, sometimes nearly 1' long. Spikelets ovoid, 2"-4" long; scales rhombic-obovate, brown, rather abruptly contracted into a subulate spreading or somewhat recurved awn about as long as the body; inner scale larger than that of H. micrantha; style short; achene narrowly obovate, black. Wet, sandy soil, Kansas to Wyoming, Colorado and Texas ; California and Washington. H. occidentalis A. Gray, a species of California and Oregon, with larger subglobose heads and lanceolate scales, is erroneously recorded from western Ontario. 11. DULICHIUM L, C. Richard; Pers. Syn. 1: 65. 1805. A tall perennial sedge, with terete hollow jointed culms, leafy to the top, the lower leaves reduced to sheaths. Spikes axillary, peduncled, simple or compound. Spikelets 2-ranked, linear, many-flowered, breaking up into i-fruited joints at maturity. Scales 2-ranked, carinate, conduplicate, decurrent on the joint below. Flowers perfect. Perianth of 6-g retrorsely barbed bristles. Stamens 3. Style 2-cleft at the summit, persistent as a linear-oblong beak on the summit of the achene. [Name said to be from Dulcichimum, a Latin name for some sedge.] A monotypic genus. i. Dulichium arundinaceum (L.) Britton. Dulichium. Fig. 838. Oyperus arundinaceus L. Sp. PI. 44. 1753. Cyperus spathaceus L. Syst. Ed. 12, 2: 735. 1767. Dulichium spathaceum Pers. Syn. 1: 65. 1805. Dulich