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{Macmin.) Vicinity of Hamilton Ont. (Logie.) Swamps at London, 

 Ont. {Milbnan. Burgess.) Point Edward, Eiver St. Clair, Ont. {J. M. 

 Macoun.} Fifteen miles up the Kamini^tiqua Eiver, west of Lake 

 Superior. (Macoun.) Sault Ste. Marie ; Oxford Lake and Nelson River, 

 Keewatin. {R. Bell.) Saskatchewan. Hooher, Fl.) 



667. ERIOPHORUM, Linn. Gen. 68. 



(2486.) E. cyperinum,Linn.;Benth.&Hook.,Gren.Plant, III., 1052. 



Scirpuit Eriophorum, Michx., var. c>ipennu$, Gray, Man. Ed. V., 565; 



Macoun, Cat. No. 1925 

 TYichophorum q/perinum, Pers. ; Pursh, Fl. I., 57. 



Rather common in ditches and swamps throughout eastern Canada. 

 Newfoundland. (Seeks.) Whj-cocomagh, Cape Breton ; and Truro, 

 N.S. (Macoun.) Magdalen Islands. (J. Bichardson.) Abundant at 

 Pictou, N.S. (McKay.) Glenelg, Guysboro Co., N.S. (Faribault.) 

 Campbellton, N.B. (Macoun.) Thunder Eiver and St. Sauveur, Q. 

 (St. Cyr.) Tadousac, Q. (A. T. Drummond.) In pools of water at 

 Huckleberry Rapids, Argenteuil Co., Q. (B' Urban.) Vicinity of 

 Ottawa. (Fletcher, Fl. Ott.) Kemptville, Ont. (Porter.) Common 

 around Prescott, Ont. (Billings.) Very abundant in central Ontario. 

 (Macoun.) Vicinity of Hamilton, Ont. (Logie.) Swamps, London, 

 Ont. (Burgess. Millman.) Sault Ste. Marie ; Echimamish River, 

 Keewatin. (E. Bell.) Abundant at the mouth of the Kaministiqua 

 River, at Fort William, Lake Superior. (Macoun.) Hudson Bay; 

 Canada to the Saskatchewan. (Hooker, M.) 



All the preceding notices are supposed to belong to Seirpus Eriop- 

 horum, Michx., var. cyperinus. Gray, which seems to be the common 

 form. 



Var. laxus, Gray, Man. Ed. V., 565. 



Seirpus Eriophorum, ilichx., var. laxus, Gray, Man. Ed. V., 565. 



This is distinguished from all the other forms by its scattered heads, 

 but more particularly bj' the long pedicelled lateral heads and sessile 

 middle one. Along the Restigouche, near Campbellton, N.B. ; wet mea- 

 dows, Whycocomagh, Cape Breton ; common at Belleville, Ont. ; also 

 Flat Rock Portage, Lake Nipigon, Ont. (Macoun.) Severn River, 

 Keewatin. (J. M. Macoun.) Wet places, London, Ont. (Burgess. 

 Millman.) 



