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Var. divergens, Bailey, Carex, Syn. 63, (1886.) 



C. Bella-villa, Dew. Sill. Journ. 2d. Ser. XLI., 229, (1866.) 



" Plant more slender, spikes scattered or i-emote, oblong or cylindri- 

 cal, much more loosely flowered, more or less staminate at the apex ; 

 perigynium more straw-colored, less turgid, slenderly beaked, diverg- 

 ing at right angles ; scales longer, conspicuously awned." (Bailey.) 

 Marshy meadows near Foxboro, six miles north of Belleville, Hast- 

 ings Co., Ont. I believe, with Prof. Bailey, that this is a variety of 

 C. lurida, but it cannot be a hybrid with C. folliculata, as that species 

 has never been found within one hundred miles of the locality. 



Vai-. polystachya, Bailey, Carex, Syn. 63, (1886.) 



C. lupvlina, \ar. polystachya, Schweinitz & Torr., Mon. C>'p. 337, (1825.) 



C. lupiUtj'ormis, Sartwell, Exsicc. 147, (1S4S.) 



C. Beyrichiana, Bctckeler, Linnsea, XLI., 239, (1877.) 



In Hastings and Northumberland Co's., Ont., there are numerous 

 forms of C. lurida, all of which have pedunculate and scattered spikes, 

 and are very unlike typical C. lurida. One of these was named 

 C. Canadensis, by Dewey, and the others referred to C. lupulina, vm: 

 pedunculata, and var. gigantoidea, Dewey. These are now jjlaced under 

 this form pending a better arrangement of the several varieties of this 

 multiform species. 



X X Vesicarice. Baiky, Carex, Syn, 6-1. 



(2672.) C. oligosperma, Michx., Fl. I., 174, (1803); Hook., Fl. 

 II. 220. 



C. Oakesiana, Dew. Sill. Journ. XIV., a51, (1828.) 

 Peat and sphagnum swamps, rather rare. Labrador. (Allen.) In a 

 peat bog near Hichibucto, and at Madawaska, N.B. (FovAer, Cat.) 

 Thunder Eiver, Q. {St. Cyr.) Mer Bleue, near Ottawa. (^Fletcher, Fl. 

 Ott.) Abundant in bogs, Kiladar and Kennebec, Addington Co., and 

 Tudor, Hastings Co., Ont. ; One-mile Portage, Xipigon Eiver, Lake 

 Superior. (Macoun.) Lake Superior. (Richardson.) London ; and Port 

 Cockburn, Lake Joseph, Muskoka, Ont. (Burgess.) Lake Mistassini, 

 N.E.T. (./. M. Macoun.) From Norway House, Lake Winnipeg, to 

 English Eiver, and Bear Lake, lat. 66^. (Bichardson.) Peat bogs, 

 Methy Portage, lat. 57", where it is in abundance. (Macoun.) 



(2C73.) C. Raeana, Boott, Eich. Arc. Exped. II., 344, (1857.) 



We have never seen specimens of this species except those of Prof. 

 Fowler, from New Brunswick, and the younger specimens collected by 

 Mr. C. E. Smith in northern Maine, and disti-ibuted by Olney and 



