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swamp near Prescott Junction, Ont. {Billings.) Kemptville, Ont^ 

 (^Porter.) Cedar swamps and borders of ponds throughout central 

 Ontario, and to Lake Superior and all the northern forest region. 

 (Macmin.) Vicinity of Hamilton, Ont. {Logie.) Swampy ground, 

 Komoica, Ont. {Millman.) Swamps at London, Ont. ; and Lake of 

 the Woods. {Burgess.) York Factory, Hudson Bay; Oba Lake, Ont. 

 {R. Bell.) Eastern summit of North Kootanie Pass, Rocky Moun- 

 tains. {Dawson.) In swamps in northern Manitoba, and north-westward 

 to Peace River, lat. 56'; common in swamps at Morley and westward 

 through the Rocky Mountains to Donald in the Columbia Valley ; 

 northward through British Columbia to McLeod's Lake, lat. 55° ; . 

 rare on Vancouver Island, only noted on Mount Mark, near Qualicum. 

 {Macoun.) Common in British America to the Rocky Mouataius. 

 {Hooker. Fl.) 



1 1 Spikelets male at bottom. 



(2553.) C. trisperma, Dew. Sill. Journ. IX., 63, (1825); Hook.,. 

 Fl. II., 213. 

 Abundant in bogs eastward from Lake Superior. Sphagnum swamp, 

 Truro, N.S. {Macoun.) Swamps and woods, Bass River ; Carleton 

 Co., N.B. {Fowler, Cat.) Tobiquc Lakes, N.B. {Brittain.) Swamps, 

 Cape Rosier, and Grand Vallee, Gasp6 coast ; Mount Albert, Shichshock 

 Mountains, Q. {Macoun.) Ouatchechou, and west point of Mingan 

 River, >l. {St. Cyr.) Swamps, vicinity of Ottawa. {Fletcher, Fl. Oft.) 

 Common in swamps at Prescott, Ont. {Billings.) Kemptville, Ont. 

 {Porter.) Cedar swamps throughout central Ontario, and westward 

 to the country around Lake Superior antl Lake Nipigon. {Macoun.) 

 Vicinity of Hamilton, Ont. {Logie.) Swampsat London, Ont. (Burgess. 

 Millman.) Cumberland House and Rocky Mountains. {Hooker, Fl.) 



(2554.) C.remota, Linn. Sp. PI., Ed. II., 1383, (1757.) 



Resembles tall and lax forms of C. canescens, but differs in the much 

 scattered spikes. Newfoundland, according to Gay, and Sitka, accord- 

 ing Flora Rossica. ^{Bailey, Carex, Syn. 145.) Sitka. {Rothr. Alask.y 



(2555.) C. tenuiflora, Wahl. (1803); Hook., Fl. II., 214. 



Swamps and peaty meadows, not common. Tobique River ; Petit- 

 codiac, X.B. {Fowler, Cat.) Mer Bleue, near Ottawa. (Fletcher, Fl. Ott.) 

 Swamp, five'miles west of Belleville, and in a cedar swamp beyond the 

 Joi-dan, Hastings Road, Ont. ; Flat Rock Portage, Lake Nipigon ; and 

 in peat bogs at Red Rock, Port Arthnr, and Fort William,, west of 

 Lake Supei-ior, and at Otter Head, on the east coast ; in wet woods. 



