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II. Spike composed of sessile and androgynous, or rarely dicecious spikelets. 



Stigmas II. 



* Spikes dioecious, or the spikelets androgynous with the male and female 

 flowers irregularly intermixed. 



<2.526.) C. bromoides, Schk. (1802); Pursh, Fl. I.. 35, (1814) 

 Hook., Fl. II., 212. 



Swamps and wet grassy places ; rather rare. Marsh near Truro, 

 N.S. {Macoun.) PoUet Eiver and Portage, Petitcodiac ; Arthurette, 

 and Salmon Eiver, N.B. (Fouler, Cat.) Vicinity of Ottawa. {Fletcher, 

 Fl. Ott.) Common in swamps at Prescott, Ont. (Billings.) Piece of 

 damp woods east of Belleville, Ont. (Macoun.) Swamps near Hamil 

 ton, Ont. (^Logie.) Bogs and swamps at London, and Parry Sound 

 Ont. (Burgess.) British America ; Eocky Mountains. (Hooker, Fl.) 



(2527.) C. Siccata, i»ew. Sill. Jouin. X., 278, (I82G): Hook., Fl. 

 II., 212. 



a pallida, C. A. Meyer, Cyp. Nov. No. 21, (1830.) 

 Diy gravelly, or sandy soil, having a wide range to the north-west- 

 ward. Vicinity of Ottawa. (Fletcher, Fl. Ott.) Grand Trunk gravel 

 pit, near Prescott, and woodlands west of Brockville, Ont. (Billings.) 

 Dry thickets east and west of Belleville, Ont. ; Eice Lake Plains, and 

 sandy ground generally throughout central Ontario. (Macoun.) Vicin- 

 ity of London, Ont. ; Lake of the Woods, and Emerson, Man. (Burgess.) 

 Eed River prairie, lat. 49°. (Dawson.) Stony Mountain, Man. (Prof. 

 Fowler.) East coast of Lake Nipigon, and at the Pic and Miehipicotin 

 rivers. Lake Superior ; Point Meuron, and Kakabeka Falls, Kaminis- 

 tiqua Eiver; very abundant in many parts of the prairie region, 

 especially on gravelly slopes; common on dry hill-sides, at Morley 

 and westwai'd to Canmore in the Eocky Mountains ; abundant around 

 Cache Creek, and on the dry slopes near Spence's Bridge, B.C. (Macoun.) 

 Methy Portage and Saskatchewan Eiver. (Eichardson.) Pelly Eiver, 

 lat. 63°. N.W.T. (Dawson.) Cumberland House, Saskatchewan Eiver ; 

 Lake "Winnipeg and Eocky Mountains. (Hooker, Fl.) 



(2528.) C. dlsticha, Hudson, Fl. Angl., 403, (1762.) 



C. intermedia, Good. Linn. Trans. II., 154, (1792) ; Hook., Fl. IL, 212. 

 a Sartwdln, Dew. Sill. Journ. XLIIL, 90, (1842.) 



Marshes and margins of bogs, rather local. Newfoundland. (Reeks.) 

 Eiver side, Kemptville, Ont. (Porter.) Ditch along the G. T. Eailway, 

 between the wooden bridges, Belleville ; also on Bleecker's Farm, west 

 of the college, and on Ferry Point, south of Belleville Ont; abundant 



