126 GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA. 



(2561.) C. echinata, Man-aj, Prodr. Gictt. 76, (1770.) 



C. stellulata, Good., Linn. Trans. II., 144,(1792); Hook., Fl. II., 214; 



Macoun, Cat. No. 2066. 

 C stelMaUi, var. stenlis, Torr. Bot. N. York, II., 380, (1843.) 

 C. stenlis, \V. Boott, Bot. Calif. II., 236, (1880.) 



Culms Stiff; spikes large, all contiguous or nearly so; perigynium 

 large, much attenuated above. {Bailey.) Apparently commonest 

 eastward. Only our own specimens and what have been named 

 C. sterilis, are referred to the species. All othei-s go with the second 

 variety. Topsail, Newfoundland. (B.Bell.) Petticodiac, N.B. (Brit- 

 tain.) Swamps at Truro, and Yarmouth, N.S. (Macoun.) Glenelg, 

 Guysboro, N.S. (Faribault.) St. Charles Islands, Mingan, and Tadou- 

 sac, Q. {St. Cyr.) Eivi^i-e do Brig, Anticosti; Gasp6 Basin, and 

 L'anse ik Valon, Gasp<5, Q. ; Livingston Point, Lake Xipigon, and 

 Lake Maria, Nipigon River, Ont. (Macoun.) Swampy river flat, 

 London, Ont. (Burgess, Millman.) Not uncommon in marshes at 

 Morley and westward through the Rocky and Selkirk mountains, B.C. ; 

 borders of marshes at Coldstream, Albaini, and Mount Mark, near 

 Qualicum, Vancouver Island. (Macoun.) 



Tar. conferta, Bailey, Oarex, Cat. (1884.) 



C. stellulata, var. conferta, Chapm. Flora, 534, (1860.) 



Bogs at the head of the North West Arm, near Halifax, N.S. 

 (Macoun & Burgess.) Along the coast from Newfoundland southward 

 to Florida. (La Pylaie.) Diflers fi'om the species in the oblong den- 

 sely flowered, and more spi-eading spike.<, and recurved perigynium. 

 (Bailey.) 



Var. microstachys, B.eckeler, Linnsea. XXXIX., 125, (1875) 



C. scirpoides, Schkuhr, Riedgr. Nachtr. 19, (1805) ; Pursh, Fl. I., 37. 



C. sttTili.'f, Willd.; Pur.'^b, Fl. I., 34, (1814 ) 



C. stfTiHs, vars. ^. & y., Torr. Cyp., 392, (1S36.) 



C. stellulata, vars. scirpoides & angustata, Gray, Man. Ed. V., 579, (1868) ; 



Macoun, Cat No. 2066 vars. 

 C. echinata var. angustata, Bailey, Carex, Cat. (1884.) 



More slender ; spikes small and more scattered ; perigynium smaller 

 and less conspicuously beaked. (Bailey.) Very abundant in swamps 

 and marshes throughout the eastern provinces. Halifax, N.S. (Som- 

 mers, Cat.) Petitcodiac ; common in Kent Co., at Bass River; also 

 Carleton Co., N.B. (Fowler, Cat.) Common in swamps at Truro, 

 N.S. ; and along the Ste. Anne dee Monts River, Gasp6, Q. (Macoun.) 

 Mingan, and Pentecost rivers, Q. (St. Cyr.) Bogs and marshes, com- 

 mon near Ottawa. (Fletcher, Ft, Ott.) Very common around Pres- 



