106 GEOLOGICAl SURVEY OP CANADA. 



Barrow and the Arctic coast. {Rothr. Alask.) Canada to the Eocky 

 Mountains, and to the Arctic sea-shore and islands. {Hooker, Fl.) 

 Between Fort Churchill and York Factory. (Dr. Bae.) Port Kennedy, 

 lat. 72^ {Dr. Walker.) Nottingham, and Digge's islands, Hudson 

 Strait. (B. BAl.) 



Var. angUStifolium, Gray, Man. Ed. V., 566. 



E. angwtifolium, Roth. ; Pursh, Fl. I., 58 ; Hook., Fl. II., 231. 



Doubtless many of the references under var. latifolium belong here, 

 but we had no means of determining, and so placed them all under the 

 general head. Campbellton, N.B. {Chalmers.) Xorth Sydney-, Cape 

 Breton, and Yarmouth, N.S. ; marshes, Mount Albert, Gasp6, Q. ; bogs. 

 Salt Lake, Anticosti ; peatj- swamps, near Belleville, Ont. ; Eed Eock, 

 Lake Superior. {Macoun.) Kemptville, Ont. {Porter.) Greenland. 

 {Lange.) 



(2494.) E. gracile, Koch.; Hook., Fl. IL, 231. 



E. angmtifolium, Torr. Bot N. York, II., 359. 

 Peat and other bogs, common eastward. Newfoundland. {Cormack.) 

 Bogs, Windsor, and Halifax, N.S. {Sommers, Cat.) Goldenville, Guys- 

 boro Co., N.S. (Faribault.) Dartmouth, N.S. (McGill Coll. Herb.) 

 Bather common at Bass River ; Lancaster, N.B. (Fowler, Cat.) Dow's 

 swamp and other places, Ottawa; uncommon. (Fletcher, Fl. Ott.) 

 Dr. Jessup's swamp and northward from Prescott, Ont. (Billings.) 

 Loboro Lake, Ont. (Prof . Fowler.) Swamp, a little east of Belleville, 

 Ont. ; Big Swamp, Mun-ay, and in marshy meadows near Trenton, 

 Northumberland Co.; Chicken Bay, shore of Lake Huron, and marshy 

 spotir, Point Aux Pins, Lake Superior. (Macoun.) Churchill River, 

 and York Factory, Hudson Bay. Cape Chudleigh, Hudson Strait. 

 (B. Bell.) Saskatchewan to the Arctic sea. (Hooker, Fl.) Fort 

 Wrangel, Alaska. (Meehan.) 



Var. paucinervium, Engelm.; Gray, Man. Ed. V., 566. 

 Mossj' bog near London, Ont. (Millman. Burgess.) 



668. RHYNCHOSPORA, Vahl. (BEAK-RUSH.) 



(2495.) R. fusca, Eam. & Schultes, Syst. II., 81. 



R. cdba, ii., fusca, Pursh, Fl. I., 49. 

 Schanun fwcus, Linn., Sp. IL, 1664. 

 Peat bogs and beaver meadows. Peat bogs. North Sydney, Cape 

 Breton. (Macoun & Burgess.) Near Hampton, N.B. (Fowler, Cat.) 



