CATALOGUE OF CANADIAN PLANTS. 133 



Var. alata, Bailey, Carex, Cat. (1884.) 



a alata, Torr. Cyp. 396, (1836.) 



C. alata, var. pvlchra, Olney, Exsicc. I., 14, (1870.) 



Bass Eiver, Kent Co., N.B., 1870. {Prof. Fowler vide Olney.) Not 

 tincommon in thickets west of Portage la Prairie, Man. (Macoun.) 



Var. mixta, Failey, Ca-ex, Syn. 151, (1886.) 



C. lagopodioides, W. Boott, Bot. Calif. II., 237, (1880.) 

 G adusta, W. Boott, Bot. Calif. II., 238, (1880.) 



This variety is the representative of C. straminea on Yancouver 

 Island. It is rather rare, being observed only on Cedar Hill, and at 

 Nanaimo, and Alberni. (Macoun.) 



Var. moniliformis, Tuckerman, Enum. Meth., 17, (1843.) 

 C.fcenea, var. (?) sahxilonum, Gray, Man. EJ. V., 580, (1868.) 

 C. silicea, Olney, Proced. Am. Acad. VII., 393, (1868.) 

 C. straminea, var. .nlkea, Bailey, Carex, Cat. (1834.) 



This variety is intendei to include only the maritime form on the 

 Atlantic coast. Sand beach. South Bar, North Sydney, Cape Breton ; 

 on the beach. Point Pleasant, Ilalit'ax, N.S. (Macoun.) Sand beaches 

 ■on thecoast atKouchibouguac, N.B. {Fowler, Cat.) L'Anse a, Griffon, 

 Gasp^ coast. {Macoun.) 



Var. aperta, Boott, 111. 120. 



C. tcHcra, Dew. Sill. Journ. VIII., 97, (1824.) 



C. tencra, var. major, Olney, Exsicc. II., 15, (1870.) 



C. ftraminea, var. tenera, Bailey, Bot. Gaz. X., 381, (1885.) 



This form is very little known in Canada, bat is very likely common 

 in the eastern provinces, and taken either for the type or var. tenera. It 

 is distinguished from my tenera by its globular spikelets dispased in a 

 loose nodding head, with a long setaceous bract at the base of the lower 

 one. In damp meadows near Casselman, thirty miles south of Ottawa. 

 {Fletcher, Fl. On.) 



(2573.) C. leporina, Linn., var. Americana, Olney, Proced. 

 Am. Acad., 407, (1872.) 



C.pelamla, Dew. Sill. Journ. XXIX., 24S, (183(3) ; Hook., FI. II., 214. 

 C.ovalis, Good.; Hook., Fl. II., 214, (1840.) 



Eocky Mountains. (Hooker, Fl.) Abundant in British Columbia, 

 at Yale, Cache Creek, Clinton, and northward to the Nachacco, and 

 Fort McLeod, lat. 55°; also on the summit of Mount Arrowsmith, 

 Vancouver Island. {Macoun.) Slikine Eiver, above theCaiion, and at 

 Telegraph Creek, lat. 5S°, B.C. (Dawson.) Ounalashka. {Rothr. Mask.) 



