CATALOGUE OF CANADIAN PLANTS. 147 



Grand Etang and Madeline Eiver, Gasp^ coast, Q. (Macoun.) Mouth 

 of Saguenay Kiver, Q. (Pringle.) Ouatchechou, Q. (St. Cyr.) Hud- 

 son Bay, Labrador, and Kotzebue Sound. {Hooker, Fl.) 



Var. mutica, Wahl. Fl. Lapp. 246, (1812. > 



C. lanceata, Dew. Sill. Journ. XXIX., 249, (1836.) 



C. redmla, Drej. Revis. Crit. Car. 40, (1841 .) 



C salina, var. minor, Boott, 111. 160, in part. 



e. salina, var. il, Boott, Hook., Fl. II., 219, (1840.) 

 Cumberland House, on the Saskatchewan, and Hudson Bay. 

 {Hooker, Fl.) Coast of Greenland. (Lange.) 



Var. ? robusta, Bailey, Coult. Bot. Gaz. XIII., 87. 



Taller and coai-.ser than the species (two to three feet high), the 

 culm spongy at the base; leaves soft; bi-acts very leafy, surpassing 

 the culm ; spikes heavy, short and thick (usually an inch or less long, 

 and nearly half an inch thick), mostly den.se and truncate at the base, 

 somewhat aggiegated, the lower short stalked ; scales ranging from 

 lanceolate and acute to ovate and obtuse, brown with a white mid- 

 nerve, longer than the thinner nerveless perigynium. All the pori- 

 gynia are empty. (Bailey.) The specimens were growing in large 

 patches between tides in the beil of Qualicum River, Vancouver Island 

 They were generally covered with water to the height of a foot or more 

 at high tide. I cannot believe that this is a form of C. salina, as it is 

 quite distinct from that species in general appearance, but leave it 

 with Prof. Bailey to settle it. Collected July 29, 1887. (Macoun.) 



Since the above was in type, I have received fui-ther information 

 regarding this form from Mr. Arthur Bennett, F.L.S., Croj'dcn. Eng- 

 land. The specimens sent to him were forwarded to Kew, and were 

 examined by Mr. C. B. Clarke, who could not match them in Kew 

 hei'bai'ium, but suggested C. pulla. Good., as a possibility. Later 

 examinations seem to convince Mr. Clarke that this is C. physocarpa, 

 Pi'esl, Reliq. Hrenk. I., 205. Mr. Bennett thinks, on the other hand, 

 that if Kunth represents correctly Presl's plant, he cannot agree vrith 

 him, and says, "if this is not C. physocarpa, then it is a new 

 species so far as we have material at Kew to go upon, for which I pro- 

 pose the name C. Macounii (non Dewey Sill. Journ.) characterized by 

 its extremely (almost wanting) short beak to the perigynia with a 

 smaller base, semi-inflated nerved fruits much shorter than the 

 glumes." 



(2609.) C. ambusta, Boott, III. C4. 



C. salina, var. amhugla, Bailey, Carex, Cat. (1884.) 

 Ungava Bay, North Labrador ; northern British Columbia ; Sitka, 



