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(Macoun.) Low grounds around Prescott, Ont. (Billings.) Vicinity 

 of Hamilton, Ont. (^Logie.) Swamps, London, Ont. {Burgess. Millman.) 

 Owen Sound, Ont. ; common around Lake Superior and up the Nipigon 

 Eiver : swamps at Port Arthur, and westward through the forest coun- 

 try and prairie to Brandon, Man. {Macoun.') Michipicotin Eiver, Ont. 

 {R. Bell.) Lake Mistassini, N.E.T. (J. M. Macoun.) Common in 

 Bwamps and bogs from Morley westward through the Eocky Moun- 

 tains, to the summit of the Selkirk Mountains, B.C. ; boggy places at 

 Nanaimo and on Mount Maik, Vancouver Island. {Macoun.) Swamp 

 near Victoria, Vancouver Island. {Fletcher.) Hudson Baj- to Norway 

 House, north of Lake Winnipeg. {Hooker, Ft.) 



(2518.) C. scirpoidea, Michx., Fl. I., 171, (1803) ; Pursh, Fl. I., 

 34; Hook., Fl. II., 203. 



C. Michauxii, Scbwein. An. Tab. I., 64, (1823.) 



C. ]Vormskioldiana, Sohwein. & Torr. I., 294, (1824.) 



C. !<cirpina, Tuckerman, Enum. Metli. 8, (1843.) 



Cold boggy places or mountain summits. Summit of Mount Albert, 

 Shickshock Mountains, Gaspe, Q. {Porter.) Bog at Sydney Mine, 

 Cape Breton ; Salt Lake, and Jupiter Eiver, Anticosti ; Eed, and Chicken 

 bays. Lake Huron, Ont. {Macoun.) Swamp between Badger Creek 

 and Turtle Mountain, Man. {Dawson. Burgess.) Severn Lake, Kee- 

 watin ; Souris Plain, Man. (J. M. Macoun.) Griswold, Man. {Bur- 

 man.) Not uncommon on the prairies, from Brandon north westward 

 to Edmonton ; abundant in boggy meadows, from Morley westwai-d 

 through the Eocky, and Selkirk mountains, B.C. ; summit of Mount 

 Arrowsmith, alt. 5,500 feet, Vancouver Island. {Macoun.) Fort Nor- 

 man, Mackenzie Eiver; Eocky Mountains. {Hooker, Fl.) Arctic 

 sea-coast. {Richardson.) Greenland. {Lange.) 



(2519.) C. obtusata, Liljeblad, Kongl. Acad. Handl. (1793); Hook., 

 Fl. II., 209. 



C. affinis, R. Br. Rich. App. Frank). Narr., 763, (1823) ; Hook., Fl- 



II., 209. 

 C. Backiana, Dew. Sill. Journ. XXIX., 250, (1836.) 

 C. obesa, var. monoslachya, Bceckeler, Linnsea XLI., 18.5. 

 Abundant in the prairie legion on gravelly slopes, and amongst the 

 foot-hills. Newfoundland. {Reeks.) Near Moose Mountain Creek, 

 Souris Plain, Assiniboia. {J. M. Macoun.) Fort Qu'Appelle, Assini- 

 boia. {Fletcher.) Quite common on dry slopes, from Portage la 

 Piairie westward to the Eocky Mountains, and northwai-d throughout 

 the Saskatchewan region ; on dry gravelly slopes in the foothills at 

 Morley, and westward to Canmore, in the Eocky Mountains : Bridge 



