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(2393.) L. comosa, H Meyer. Linnjea. XXII., 413. 



Like the preceding species this is subject to manj' varieties, and 

 being seldom collected its range can scarcely be made out. Not un- 

 common in old fields and by roadsides at Victoria, and near the sum- 

 mit of Mount Arrowsmith, alt. 5,200 feet, Vancouver Island. (Macoun.) 

 Nootka Sound, and Port Mulgrave ; from the Rocky Mountains to the 

 Pacific Ocean. (Hooker, Fl.) 



Var. macrantha, Watson, Bot. Calif. II., 203. 



As we understand this variety, its sepals are long with a dark brown 

 centre, the end and sides being scariuus and white. Abundant at 

 Victoria, Cedar Hill, Nanaimo, and Chase Eiver, Vancouver Island. 

 (Macoun.) Coast of Vancouver Island. {Cowley.) 



Var. subsessilis, Watson, Bot. Calif. II., 203. 



Much like the preceding, but the heads few or solitary, and almost 

 sessile, approaching the next but easily distinguished by the scarious, 

 brownish bracts. Abundant under oaks at Cedar Hill, Vancouver 

 Island. {Macotm.) 



Var. congesta, Watson, Bot. Calif. II., 203. 



i. compc.«(ri.«, \ar. con^fsta, Meyer, (as regards America-) 



Very abundant everywhere along the coast of Vancouver Island,, 

 but particularly at Nanaimo ; Fort McLeod, B.C., lat. 55°. (Macoun.) 

 Around Vancouver city, B.C. (Prof. Fowler.) 



(2394.) L. spicata, Desv. : Hook., Fl. II., 188. 



High mountains and far northward. Ungava Bay, Labrador. (Barn- 

 ston.) Ford's Harbor, coast of Labrador ; Stupart's Bay, Cape Prince of 

 Wales, and Nottingham Island, off Cape Wolstenholme, Hudson Strait. 

 (R. Bell.) Fort George, James Bay. (J. M. Macoun.) Kotzebue 

 Sound. (Beechy.) Labrador, and Rocky Mountains. (Hooker, Fl.) 

 On the summits of the higher Rocky Mountains, at Castle Mt., and 

 Kicking Horse Lake, Bow River valley. (Macoun.) Island of St. 

 Lawience, and Kotzebue Sound. (Rothr. Alask.) Greenland. (Hooker, 

 Arct. PI.) A large form found growing in abundance on Mount 

 Arrrowsmith, Vancouver Island, at an altitude of 5,200 feet, is referred 

 to this species by Dr. Britton, of Columbia College. Many specimens 

 are almost a foot high, and have a spike from, an inch to an inch and a 

 half long. The lowest spikelet is rather remote, and usually has a bract 

 longer than the whole spike. Scales very long and ciliate. (Macoun.) 



(2395.) L. hyperborea, R. Br., var. a. major, Hook., Fl. II., 188. 

 Apparently confined to the northern coasts and islands. Cumberland 



