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River, Keewatin. (J. M. Macoun.) Saskatchewan, and noi-thward to 

 Bear Lake. {Bailey.) Canada to Mackenzie Eiver. (Hooker, Fl.) 

 Methy Portage. {Richardson.) 



(2605.) C. acuta, Linn., Sp. PI., 1388, (1757.) 



C aperta, var. diraricatn. Bailey, Bot, Gaz. IX., 119, in part, (18S4.) 

 We have few specimens which we can refer here, but place them 

 mostly under the variety which follows. Sitka. (Rothr. Alask.) Lewes 

 Jliver, lat. 62°, KW.T. (Dawson.) 



Vai . prolixa, Hornem. Plantel. Ed. IV. 



C.proUxa, Fries. Mant III., 150, (1835.) 

 a aperta, Boott, Hook., Fl. II., 218, (1840.) 



Very abundant in low grounds, producing very good hay in numerous 

 places, especially at Cedar Hill, and Nanaimo. Specimens were col- 

 lected at Cedar Hill, Goldstream, Shawnigan Lake, Qualicum, Mount 

 Arrowsmith, and Sproat Lake, on the west coast of Vancouver Island. 

 (^Macoun.) In meadows at Victoria, Vancouver Island. (Fletcher.) 



(2606.) C. QLA0CA, Scopoli, Fl. Grerm. 455. 



Introduced on dry clay banks of the railway cutting Just outside of 

 Windsor, N.S. (^Macoun & Burgess.) On the border of a meadow, in 

 poor soil, London, Ont. (Burgess.) 



(2607.) C. torta, Boott; Tuckerraan, Enum. Meth. (1843.) 

 C. torta, Var. compomta, Porter. 

 Borders of streams and in wet meadows in the maritime provinces. 

 Halifax, X.S. (Sornmers, Cat.) Along a small stream at Truro, N.S. 

 (Macoun & Burgess.) Salmon Creek, and Gaspereaux River; Petitco- 

 diac, N.B. {Fowler, Cat.) 



(2608.) C. salina, AVahl., Fl. Lapp. 246, (1812.) 



a cuspidalu, Wahl. Kongl. Acad. Handl. XXIV'., 164, (1802.) 

 C. stricta. Hook, ifc Arn. Bot. Beechey's Voy., 131, (1834.) 

 C. recta, Boott, Hook., Fl. II., 220, (1S40.) 

 C. hxmatolepi.^, Drej. Revis. Crit. Car. 44, (1841.) 



Very abundant in salt marshes in almost every part of Nova Scotia 

 ■and around the Gulf of St. Lawrence. Newfoundland. (Reeks.) 

 ■Coast of Labrador and about Hudson Bay. (Bailey.) Louisburg, and 

 North Sydney, Cape Breton ; Truro, Annapolis, Yarmouth and Halifax, 

 N.S. (Macoun.) Salt marsh at Molus Bay, Kent Co., N.B. (Fowler, 

 •Cat.) Salt Lake and English Bay, Anticosti ; Cape Rosier, Fox River, 



