1905] Fernald,— North American Species of Eriophorum 83 
E. Cuamissonis, C. A. Meyer. Loosely stoloniferous: sterile 
shoots bearing slender channeled leaves 1—6.5 dm. long: culms slen- 
der, terete, 1-8 dm. high: the lowest reddish brown sheaths blade- 
bearing; the uppermost scarcely inflated and mostly bladeless 
(3-5-10 cm. long): flowering spikelet oblong-cylindric, 1.5-2 cm. 
long: scales brownish-lead-color to blackish, with distinct whitish 
margin, ovate to ovate-lanceolate, bluntish: fruiting spikelet 2.5—4 
cm. long: bristles reddish or cinnamon color: achenes trigonous.— 
C. A. Meyer in Ledebour, Fl. Alt. i. 70 (1829), as to description for 
the most part, synonymy, and citation of the Unalaskan specimen 
but not the Altai plant, and Mém. Sav. Étrang. Acad. St. Pétersb. i. 
204, t. 3 (1831), except the Altai plant; Torr., Ann. Lyc. Nat. Hist. 
N. Y. ill. 337 (1836), mostly; Fries, Novit. Mant. ii. 1 (1839); 
Ledeb., Fl. Ross. iv. 253 (1853), mostly ; Bcklr., Linnaea, xxxvii. 93 
(1871), and Cyp. Kónigl. Herb. Berlin, 629; Richter, Pl. Eur. i. 
136 (1890). Æ. intermedium, Chamisso, ex C. A. Meyer, ll. cc., 
(1829, 1831), as synonym, not Bast. Æ. vaginatum, B. medium, 
Laestad., ex Fries, l. c. (1839), as synonym. Æ. f/u/ve//um, LaPylaie, 
ex Fries, l. c, 2 (1839), as synonym. Æ. russeolum, Fries, l. c., 2 
(1839), as synonym, and l. c. iii. 170 (1842); Anders., Cyp. Scand 
13, t. 2,fig.32 (1849), and Bot. Not. (1857) 80; Blytt, Norges Fl. 
271 (1861); Liebm. & Lange, Fl. Dan. Suppl. t. 8 (1874); Nyman, 
Consp. 762 (1882); Macoun, Cat. Can. Pl. ii. 104 (1888); Nor- 
man, Christiania Vidensk.-Selsk. Forhandl. (1893) no. 16, 45: 
Palla, Bot. Zeit. liv. ab. 1, 151 (1896) ; Britton Y Brown, Ill. FI. 
i. 272 (1896); Ostenfeld, Fl. Arct. 42 (1902). JE. vaginatum y, 
Hook., Fl. Bor.-Am. ii. 231 (1839), fide Fries, Novit. Mant. iii. 170. 
E. capitatum, Hook., Fl. Bor.-Am. ii. 231 (1839), as to synonym Æ. 
Chamissot, not Host; Macoun, Cat. Can. Pl. ii. 104 (1888) as to 
Moose Factory plant. Æ. Chamissoi, Hook., Fl. Bor.-Am. ii. 231 
(1839), in synonymy. Æ. Scheuchzeri, var. Chamissonis, F. Nylander, 
Acta Soc. Sc. Fenn. iii. (1852), and in Anders., Bot. Not. (1857) 58. 
E. medium, Anders. Bot. Not. (1857) 62. E. rufescens, Anders., 
Bot. Not. (1857) 79. Æ. vaginatum, b., Bcklr., Linnaea, xxxvii. 94 
(1871), and Cyp. Konigl. Herb. Berlin, 630. Æ. russeolum, var. ruf- 
escens, Hartm., Handb. ed. 11, 450 (1879). — Labrador and Alaska, 
locally south to Newfoundland, Saint Pierre, Miquelon, Quebec (as- 
cending to the summit of Mt. Albert), Prince Edward Island, New 
Brunswick and Northern Nova Scotia; James Bay, and Mer Bleue, 
