252 GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA. 



(2965.) E. hyemale, Linn. ; Hook. Fl. II., 270 in part. 



Quite common throughout the northern forests, and westward through 

 the mountains to the Pacific. Bather rare at Bass River ; also at 

 Diummond, Victoria Co., N.B. {Fowler's Cat.) Portage, Kent Co. ; 

 Bairdsville and Simmonds, Carlelon Co., N.B. (Brittain.) Riviere 

 de Brig, and Jupiter Eiver, Anticosti ; Brackley Point, and elsewhere 

 on P. E. I. ; common along the Gasp6 coast, Q. (Macottn.) Lac St. 

 Joseph, Portneuf Co., Q. (St. Cyr.) Vicinity of Ottawa. (Fletcher FL- 

 Oft.) Gravelly banks, London, Ont. (Burgess.) Queen Charlotte 

 Islands. (Dawson.) 



(2966.) E. ramosissimum, Desf. 



We refer to this species forms intermediate between E. hyemale and 

 E. variegatum but which differ from the first in having a short black 

 sheath with soft fragile teeth which are united in groups by thin white 

 membranous margins, and tipped with a long soft point, from the 

 latter by the greater number of ridges, greater size and longer teeth. 

 Speko's Point, Lake Nepigon, Ont. , Shawnagiii Lake, A'^ancouver 

 Island. (Macoun.) 



(2967.) E. variegatum, Schleicher, Hook. Fl. II., 270. 



In sand by rivers and lakes ; not rare. Near Andover, N.B. ; rai'e 

 (Brittain.) Riviere de Brig, and Salt Lake, Anticosti, and at Gasp6 

 Basin, Q. (Macoun.) Border of the Montmorency River at Beau- 

 port, Q. (St. Cyr.) Wet places, Niagara Falls. (Burgess.) Shore 

 of Lake Ontario, at Presqu'Ile Point, near Brighton ; sands. Lake 

 Nepigon ; Red Deer River, Lat. 5.3", Man. ; along the Bow River, in 

 sand and westward through the Rock}^ Mountains to the Columbia at 

 Donald, in sand along Shuswap Lake, and on the Indian Reservation at 

 Kamloops, B.C. ; also along the shores of Home and Cameron lakes, Van- 

 couver Inland. (Macoun.) Elk River, Kootanie Valley ; along the 

 Upper Liard Eiver, N.W.T. (Dawson.) Frequent in Canada and 

 thence to the Saskatchewan and Arctic Sea. (Hoolcer Fl.) Green- 

 land. (Rosenvinge). Bartlctt Bay, Alaska. (Meehan.) 



(2968.) E. scirpoides, Michs. Fl. II., 28L 



E. variegatum var. J. Hook. Fl. II., 270. 



Common on the slopes of cool ravines and in swampy woods north- 

 ward. Nottingham Island, Hudson Strait. (E. Bell.) Pietou, N.S. 

 (McKay.) Common about River Charlo and Point Le Nim, N.B. 

 (Fowler's Cat.) Wet places at Truro, X.S.; Brackley Point and other 



