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Utah, Bear River Canon, alt. 3,080 m. (S. Watson, nos. 1231 a & 1233). 

 Alta, Wahsatch Mts., alt. 2,460 m. (M. E. Jones, no. 1273) : Alaska, 

 Ounalaska (J. M. Macoun, hb. Geol. Surv. Can., no. 30,514) ; Sitka 

 (Mertens) : Alberta, Lake Louise (E. Brainerd) : British Colum- 

 bia, Revelstoke (nos. 19 & 30,526), Comox (no. 371), Port Henly 

 (no. 20,500), Mt. Mark, Vancouver Id. (no. 30,515), Beaver Creek, 

 Selkirk Mts. (no. 30,519), Dead Man River (no. 30,522), —John 

 Macoun, hb. Geol. Surv. Can. ; Ilgacho Brook (Dawson, bb. Geol. 

 Surv. Can. no. 30.518) ; Lulu Island, Fraser River Delta (R. B. Dixon) : 

 Washington, upper valley of tbe Nesqually (O. D. Allen, no. 163). 

 May-Aug. 



Var. subloliacea, Laestad. — Figs. 116, 117. — Smaller, the short- 

 oblong or subglobose spikelets 4 to 7 mm. long : perigynia smaller, hardy 

 2 mm. long, smooth throughout. — Nov. Act. Soc. Sci. Ups. xi. 282 ; 

 Andersson, Cyp. Scand. 57 ; Boott, 1. c. ; Bailey, Mem. Torr. CI. i. 66 ; 

 Richter, 1. c. 152. C. lapponicdt, Lange, Linnaea, xxiv. 539. C. 

 canescens in part, of Am. authors. — Lapland. In America specimens 

 examined from Ungava, Ungava Bay (L. M. Turner} : Hudson Bat 

 {Sir John Richardson): New Brunswick, South Tobique Lakes (G. 

 U. Hay, no. 55) ; Petitcodiac (J. Brittain, hb. Geol. Surv. Can. no. 

 30,510) : Nova Scotia, Halifax {J. Macoun) : Maine, Orono and 

 Southport (M. L. Fernald) : New Hampshire, Mt. Washington (Asa 

 Gray, et al.) ; Mt. Monadnock — ledges toward summit ( W. P. Rich) : 

 Vermont, Willoughby Lake (W. Boott, G. G. Kennedy); summit of 

 Mt. Mansfield (E. Brainerd) ; bog, Wallingford, alt. 675 m. (E. 

 Brainerd): Massachusetts, Sharon (W. P. Rich); "Washington, 

 Berkshire Co. ( W. Boott) : New York, Fairfield (A. Gray) ; Pen 

 Yan (Sartwell, no. 32) ; Oriskany Swamp (Kniesken) ; tamarack 

 swamps, Herkimer Co. (J. V. Haberer) : Ontario, Ottawa (J. Fletcher, 

 hb. Geol. Surv. Can., no. 7408) ; Hastings Co. (J. Macoun) : Michi- 

 gan, Flint (Z>. Clark) ; Lansing (L. H. Bailey, no. 262) ; Alma 

 (C. A. Davis): British Columbia, Mts. east of Adams Lake 

 (Dawson, hb. Geol. Surv. Can., no. 30,520) : Washington, Seattle 

 (C. V. Piper, no. 1106). 



Var. disjuncta. — Figs. 118 to 120. —Tall and lax, 3 to 8 dm. 

 high: spike elongated, flexiioas, 0.5 to 1.5 dm. long ; the 5 to 8 oblong- 

 ovoid to cylindric spikelets 6 to 12 mm. long, all hit the terminal remote, 

 the lowermost 2 to 4 cm - apart: perigynia as in the species, serrulate 

 above. — C. canescens of most Am. authors. C. canescens, form, Boott, 

 111. iv. 154, t. 496. The common form in eastern America found in 



