54 Rhodora . (MARCH 
Conway, Aug. 27, 1855 (Wm. Boott); Echo Lake, North Conway, 
June 8, 1878, near Gate of the Notch, July 7, 1878, and between 
Bethlehem and Fabyans, July 5, 1879 (Æ. & C. E. Faxon): VER- 
MONT, Island Pond, July 4, 1854 (Wm. Boott); Gardner’s Island, 
Lake Champlain, June 26, 1877 (C. G. Pringle); E. Wallingford and 
Bloomfield, 1899 (W. W. Eggleston, nos. 1659, 1667): MASSACHU- 
sETTS, Framingham, July 7, 1897 (Æ. C. Smith, no. 653): RHODE 
ISLAND, banks of Seekonk River, June 15, 24, 1867 (S. 7: Olney): 
Connecticut, Hartford, June, 1879 (C. Wright): New York, Sand 
Lake (C. Æ. Peck); Raquette Falls, July 11, 1899 (Rowlee, Wiegand, 
& Hastings): ONTARIO, Nipigon River, July 22, 1884 (J. Macoun). 
Var. DISTENTA, Fries. Nearly as slender as the last: pistillate 
spikes 1 or 2, short and thick, 1 to 2.5 cm. long, 1 to 1.3 cm. thick: 
perigynium as in var. moni/e-— Herbar. norm. Fasc. 15, no. 84, acc. 
to Blytt, Norg. Fl. i. 253. C. Friesi, Blytt, l. c.— Norway (Zytf): 
UNGava, along Ungava River (Spreadborough, Herb. Geol. Surv. 
Dept. Can. no. 13,647): NEWFOUNDLAND, Exploits River, with C. 
saxatilis, var. miliaris and C. Grahami, Aug. 13, 1894 (Robinson & 
Schrenk); Grand Lake (Waghorne): QukBEC, Rupert River (7. M. 
Macoun, Herb. Geol. Surv. Can. no. 20,241): MaiNE, outlet of 
Moosehead Lake (Z. & C. E. Faxon); Orono (M. L. Fernald). 
Closely resembling C. Grahami, but in its acute scale and sharply 
long-toohed beak clearly an extreme of C. vesicaria. 
Var. Raeana. Very slender, 4 to 6 dm. high: leaves 2 mm. 
wide, tending to become involute at tip: pistillate spikes very slen- 
der, at most 3 or 4 cm. long, 4 to 8 mm. wide: perigynium scarcely 
at all inflated, oblong-ovate to oblong-lanceolate, tapering gradually 
to the beak, 4 to 6 mm. long, one-third longer than the acuminate 
scale.— C. Raeana, Boott, in Rich. Arct. Exped. ii. 344, & Ill. i. 25, 
t. 64; Bailey, Proc. Am. Acad. xxii 65, in part. C. monile, var. 
Raeana, Bailey, Mem. Torr. Club, i. 39.— ATHABASCA, Methye Port- 
age, Methye Lake [Lac la Loche] (Sir John Richardson): QUEBEC, 
Roberval, Lake St. John, Aug. 22, 24, 1896 (Ezra Brainerd). 
2. Perigynium retrorse or wide spreading (ascending in var. Macownii), 
slightly falcate. 
C. RETRORSA, Schwein. Rather stouter than the last species, 1 m. 
or less high: leaves ribbon-like, of very soft texture, mostly o.5 to 
1 cm. wide; the bracts very much overtopping the culm: staminate 
spikes r to 4, sessile or short-peduncled, often pistillate at base ; pistil- 
late spikes 3 to 8, mostly clustered at the tip, sessile or short-peduncled, 
spreading, or the lower long-peduncled and remote, frequently com- 
pound, r.5 to 5 cm. long, 1.5 to 2 cm. thick: perigynium very thin 
and soft, reflexed, conic-ovate, long-beaked, 8 to ro mm. long, much 
exceeding the acuminate scale. — Ann. Lyc. N. Y. i. 71; Schw. & 
Torr. Ann. Lyc. N. Y. i. 366, t. 28, fig. 2; Carey in Gray, Man. 
565; Boott, Ill. ii. 93, t. 276: Bailey, Proc. Am. Acad. xxii. 68, & 
