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N.E.T. ; Severn Eiver, Keewatin. (./ M. Macoun.) Oba Lake, Ont. ; 

 Knee Lake and Nelson Eiver, Keewatin. (R. Bell.) Lake of the 

 Woods; South Kootanie Pass, and north fork of Old Man Eiver, Eocky 

 Mountains. (Dawson.) Moose Mountain Creek, Assiniboia. (J. M. 

 Macoun.) Abundant on the prairie in wet spots from Winnipeg west- 

 ward to the Eocky Mountains, and northward to Peace Eiver, lat. 58°; 

 in the foot-hills, and fi-otn Morley westward through the Eocky Moun- 

 tains to Eoger's Pass, in the Selkirk Mountains ; abundant in northern 

 British Columbia, to Fort McLeod, lat. 55°; Somenos; and Qualicum, 

 at Home Lake, Vancouver Island ; rather rare. {Macoun.) Lake 

 Winnipeg to Carleton House and the Rocky Mountains. (Soaker, Fl.) 

 Pelly River, lat. 63°, north of British Columbia. (Dawson.) 



(2592.) C. albata, Bailey, in herb. 



Prof. Bailey coni-iders this the Amei-ican representative of (7. /ri^?V/a, 

 Allioni. It is a most remarkable and dislinct Carex, and can be recog- 

 nized at once by its dark brown spikelets, and long, nairow, and spread- 

 ing pcrigynia. Spikelets usually four, nearly all staminateat the apex; 

 scales brown, scarious-margined and blunt, and scarcely half as long as 

 the tapering perig\-nium which is toothed at the apex. The lowest 

 spikelet is generally long pcduncled, and often four inches below the 

 next one above, the two upper ones are so "close together that they 

 appear as one. Gathered in quantitj- on the borders of small ponds. 

 Mount Mark, Vancouver Island, alt. 2,500 feet, .Tuly 27th, 1887. 

 (Macoun.) 



(2593.) C. prasina, Wahl. Kdngl. Acad. Handl. XXIV., 161, (1802.) 

 C. mitiacea, Muhl. (1806) ; Hook., Fl. II., 216 ; Macoun, Cat. No. 2022. 

 Growing in clumps in low wet places near springs in woods; rather 

 rare. In a ravine on Simon Terrill's Farm, Brighton, Northumber- 

 land Co., Ont. ; in thickets at Poi-t Stanle}', Elgin Co., Ont. (Macoun) 

 Lowgrounds, London, Ont. (Bur/jess. Millman.) Canada. (Hooker, Fl.) 



(2594.) C. debilis, Michx., Fl. I., 172, (1803.) 



C tenuis, Rudge, Linn., Trans. VII., 97, (1804.) 

 C.fiexuosa, Muhl. ; Pursh, Fl. I., 43, (1814.) 

 C. debilis, var. /?., Boott. 111. 92. 



Not uncommon in woods and thickets in Nova Scotia, at Truro ; on 

 McNab's Island at Halifax, and at Annapolis; also abundant in grassy 

 thickets at North S3-dney, Cape Breton. (Macoun & Burgess.) Bass 

 Eiver, Kent Co., and Fiedericton ; Carleton Co. ; common at Salmon 

 River, N.B. (Fowler, Cat.) Newfoundland. (Reeks.) 



