CATALOGUE OF PLANTS. 171 



Northeast Creek ; Sargent Mt. ; High Head, and elsewhere 

 (Rand);— Somesville; Sea Wall (R. & R.). 



Var. excelsior, Bailey. 



Taller and more slender (often 2° high), the heads usually 

 more scattered and mostly somewhat greener. Bailey, I. c. 

 Common in bogs and low grounds throughout the Island. 



Var. cephalantha, Bailey. C echinata, Murray, var. cejyha- 

 lantha, Bailey. Gray, Man., 6th ed., 618. 

 Rather stiff but slender and tall, or the top of the culm weak 

 (l°-2° high); head mostly continuous or more or less dense and 

 composed of five to eight approximate (rarely scattered), large 

 (15-30-flowered) green or greenish loose spikes, in which the ma- 

 ture narrow long-beaked perigynia usually spread nearly or quite 

 at right angles. Bailey, I. c. Frequent. Little Cranberry Isle; 

 Barr Hill ; Seal Harbor (Redfield) ; — meadow. Doctors Brook ; 

 High Head meadow (Rand) ; — Salisbury Cove (R. & R.). 



Var. angustata (Carey), Bailey. C. echinata, Murray, var. 

 angustata, Bailey, Gray, Man., 6th ed., 618. 

 Very slender, sometimes almost thread-like, weak, bearing 

 long and narrow div^aricate perigynia, which are either in loose 

 small heads or in scattered spikes. Bailey, I. c. Rare. Wet 

 ground at junction of Pretty marsh and Seal Cove roads (Rand). 



C. Atlantica, Bailey. C. echinata, Murray, var. conferta, 

 Bailey. Gray, Man., 6th ed., 618. 

 Tall (16'-24') and very stiff and strong, the leaves broad 

 but stiff and usually becoming somewhat involute when dry; 

 spikes contiguous or scattered, spreading, globular or short- 

 cylindrical, densely flowered, green; the terminal one slenderly 

 contracted below or even entirely staminate; perigynium large 

 and very broad (the body about as broad as long), with a dis- 

 tinct rough, bifid beak, strongly many-nerved, especially upon 

 the back, squarrose or usually retrorse at maturity, shelling 

 off readily when ripe. Bailey, I. c. Frequent. Sargent Mt. ; 

 Freeman Heath ; meadow on Sunken Heath Brook ; wood road 

 to Aunt Bettys Pond (Rand). None of the specimens thus far 

 collected are really typical. 



