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most swamps or on wet shores from Newfoundland to Michigan, 

 Ohio and Pennsylvania. The following numbered specimens belong 

 here — Prince Edward Island, Brackley Point (/. Ifacoun, hb. 

 Geol. Surv. Can. no. 30,509) : New Brunswick, Serpentine River 

 (Hay, no. 84); Chipman (Wetmore, hb. Geol. Surv. Can. no. 30,507): 

 Nova Scotia, Boylston (C. A. Hamilton, hb. Geol. Surv. Can., no. 

 25,443); Baddeck (no. 20,805), Sable Island (nos. 22,076 & 23,071), 

 Truro (no. 30,506) — /. Macoun, hb. Geol. Surv. Can. : Massachu- 

 setts : Framiugham {£J. C. Smith, no. 628) : Connecticut, South- 

 ington (L. Andrews, no. 590) : Ontario, Cache Lake (/. Macoun, hb. 

 Geol. Surv. Can., no. 22,036). 



= = Green, not glaucous : spikelets subglobose to short-oblong, few-flowered : the 

 loosely spreading dark green or brown perigynia serrulate at the base of 

 the distinct beak. 



32. C. brunnescens, Poir. — Figs. 121 to 124. — Very slender and 

 lax: culms 1.5 to 7 dm. high: leaves soft, Jlat, 1 to 2.5 mm, wide, 

 shorter than or equalling the culms : spihe 1 to 6 cm. long, of 3 to 6 

 more or less remote or approximate spikelets 3 to 7 mm. long : perigynia 

 2 to 2.7 mm. long, 1 to 1.5 mm. broad, with distinct slender beaks, 

 loosely spreading when mature. — Suppl. iii. 286; Britton, 1. c. 351, 

 fior. 848. G. curta, var. brunnescens, Pers. Syn. ii. 539. C. canescens, 

 var. alpicola, Wahlenb. Fl. Lapp. 232 ; Bailey, Pi'oc. Am. Acad. xxii. 

 143, & in Gray, Man. ed. 6, 618; Macoun, 1. c. 124; Howe, 1. c. 37. 

 C. Gebhardii, Hoppe Car. Germ. 30. Vignea Gebhardi, Reichb. Fl. 

 Exc. 58. G. canescens, (3, Torr. Ann. Lye. N. Y. iii. 393. G. Per- 

 soonii, Lange, Flora, xxv. (1842), 748 ; Reichb. Ic. Fl. Germ. viii. 7, 

 t. 206, fig. 547. G. canescens, var. sphaerostachya, Tuck. Enum. 

 Meth. 10, 19 ; Carey in Gray, Man. 544. G. vitilis. Fries, Mant. iii. 

 137 ; Anders. Cyp. Scand. 58, t. 4, fig. 38 ; Boott, 111. iv. 219 ; Fl. Dan. 

 xvii. t. 2973. G. Buckleyi, Dewey, Am. Jour. Sci. xlviii. 143, t. Dd, 

 fig. 104. G. sphaerostachya, Dewey, 1. c. xlix. 44, t. Ee, fig. 110. 

 C. canescens, var. vitilis, Carey in Gray, Man. ed. 2, 514. G. canescens, 

 var. brunnescens, Boott, 1. c. 220 (nomen nudum) ; Bailey. Mem. Torr. 

 CI. V. 74. G. canescens, var. vulgaris, Bailey, Bot. Gaz. xiii. 86, 

 Mem. Torr. CI. i. 66, v. 74, & in Gray, Man. ed. 6, 618 ; Macoun, 1. c. 

 123 ; Howe, 1. c. 37. G. brunnescens, var. gracilior, Britton, 1. c. 

 350. — Open woods and dry, rocky banks, Newfoundland and Labra- 

 dor to British Columbia, south to Idaho, Michigan, and mostly in 

 the mountains to North Carolina. Also in Greenland and northern 



