1922] Fernald,—Notes on the Flora of Western Nova Scotia 163 
LuNENBURG Co.; upper border of gravelly beach, Feindel’s L., west 
of Bridgewater. 
CLADIUM MARISCOIDES (Muhl.) Torr., forma coxacEsTUM Fernald, 
Ruopora, xxiii. 234 (1922). Sphagnous boggy swale bordering 
Fancy Lake, near Conquerall, Lunenburg Co. 
CAREX STRAMINEA Willd. See Rnopora, xxiii. 235 (1922). Some- 
what general, though often in only small quantity, on borders of 
savannahs along East Branch of Tusket R., Yarmouth Co. 
C. Bessi Olney. Hants Co.: dryish swales near Wentworth 
gypsum quarries, Windsor. 
*C. ADUSTA Boott. A single plant left growing among disturbed 
rocks by roadside. Armdale (Dutch Village), Halifax Co.; presumably 
more abundant somewhere in the neighborhood. 
C. RosEA Schkuhr. Damp thickets and clearings, North Mt., 
Granville, Annapolis Co. 
**C. muricata L. Abundant in large stools, open pastured slopes 
near Wentworth gypsum quarries, Windsor. 
**C. LENTICULARIS Michx., var. BLAKEI Dewey in Wood, Class 
Book, 755 (1861). Cobbly beach of Wentzell Lake, Lunenburg Co. 
Previously collected by J. H. Churchill at Ingonish, Cape Breton. 
C. Swann (Fernald) Mackenzie. C. virescens, var. Swanii 
Fernald. Occasional from Yarmouth Co. to Annapolis Co. 
**C. panicea L., var. microcarpa Sonder in Koch, Syn. ed. 2: 879 
(1844). 'Thin open humus by roadside on North Mt., Belle Isle, 
Annapolis Co. 
C. glauca Murr. Reported by Macoun in 1888 from "dry clay 
banks on the railway cutting just outside of Windsor." Now a very 
abundant and variable species throughout the gypsiferous region 
about Windsor. 
*C. anceps Muhl. C. laxiflora, var. patulifolia (Dewey) Carey. 
ANNAPOLIS Co.: damp clearings and open rocky woods, North Mt., 
Granville; first authentic record from east of southern Maine, Ma- 
coun’s earlier record being based on C. leptonervia Fernald. 
C. CRYPTOLEPIS Mackenzie. Somewhat local, Halifax and Lunen- 
-burg Cos. 
C. scABRATA Schwein. Diasy Co.: rich thicket by brook, East 
Ferry. 
C. oLIGOSPERMA Michx. Apparently general in the acid areas. 
SC. hirta L. Abundantly naturalized on a sandy railroad bank, 
Annapolis Royal. 
Although here recorded apparently for the first time from Canada, 
C. hirta was collected in 1912 in a pastured field at Charlottetown, 
Prince Edward Island, Fernald & St. John, no. 7106. 
C. LuPULINA Muhl. Yarmoutu Co.: swale by Ogden Lake. 
LuNENBURG Co.: by brook flowing into Caribou Lake. 
