1922] Fernald,— Notes on the Flora of Western Nova Scotia 103 



Li"xenburg Co.; upper border of gravelly beach, Feindel's L., west 

 of Bridgewatcr. 



Cladit m mariscoides (Muhl.) Torr., forma congestum Fernald, 

 Riiodora, xxiii. 234 (1922). Sphagnous boggy swale bordering 

 Fancy Lake, near Conquerall, Lunenburg Co. 



Carex stramim.a Willd. See Rhodora, xxiii. 235 (1922). Some- 

 what general, though often in only small quantity, on borders of 

 savannahs along K;ist Branch of Tusket R., Yarmouth Co. 



C. Bebbii 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. r sea 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. R. Churchill at Ingonish, Cape Breton. 



C. Swanii (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. crypt lepis Mackenzie. Somewhat local, Halifax and Lunen- 

 burg Cos. 



C. scabrata Schwein. Digby Co.: rich thicket by brook, East 

 Ferry. 



C. oligosperma Michx. Apparently general in the acid areas. 



**C. 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 Charlotte town, 

 Prince Edward Island, Fernald & St. John, no. 7100. 



C. ltjpulina Muhl. Yarmouth Co.: swale by Ogden Lake. 

 Lunenburg Co.: by brook flowing into Caribou Lake. 



