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(2545.) C. Hoodii, Boott; Bailey, Mem. Toir. Bot. Club, I., 14; 

 Macoun, Cat. IV., 119. 



C muricaUi, Linn., var. conjixa, Bailey ; Macoun, Cat. IV., 119. 

 In thickets at Agassiz, B.C., May Uth, 1889. (Macoun.) 



(2549.) C. f estiva, Dew., var. pachystachya, Bailey, Mem. ToiT. 

 Bot. Club, 1., 51. 



C-festiva, Uew., var. yrucilis, Macoun, Cat. IV., 12U, in part. 

 "Culm moi-e or less prolonged (1 to 3 ft.), flat and weak, longer than 

 the lax leaves ; heads small and globular or oblong, dull dark brown, 

 the spikes often somewhat distinct, very .short ; perigynium spreading, 

 about the length of, or somewhat longer than, the ovate-lanceohuo 

 muticous brown scale." Cedar Hill, near Victoria ; Nanaimo ; and Mount 

 Mark, near Qualicum, Vancouver Island. (Macoun.) Alaska. (Chamisso.) 



Var. gracilis, Olney ; Macoun, Cat. IV., 120. 



In grassy thickets at Agassiz, B.C., May lOtli, 18S9. (llacoun.) 



(3192.) C. illota, Bailey, Mem. Ton-. l!ot. Club, I., 15. 



v. Bonpkindii, Kuntii? var. minnr, fjoott, Proc. Acad. Phila. (1863), 77. 

 C. Bunphmlii, var. (wgusli/olui, W. Boott, Bot. Calif. II., 2."!3. (1880.) 



■ Distinguished from small forms of C. festiua. Dew., as follows: — • 

 Very slender and usually tall (•> in. to 19 in.), the head very small 

 and glolnilar or short-oblong ( l in. or loss in diameter) ; perigynium 

 completely marginless, thick below, stipitate, nerved, entirely smooth 

 on the edges, the cylindrical and scarcely-cut beak projecting 

 beyond the obtuse or nuiLicoiis dark blown scale. The porigynia are 

 oonsideralily like those of the 0. t(J«»'5f(7(,s group. This species stands 

 midway between 0. festiva and C. heleonastes." By little pools oti the 

 mountains north of tJritKn Lake, B.C., al an altitude of 6t)00 feet, Aug. 

 1 889. (Macoun.) 



(2551.) C. synchnocephala, Carey; Macoun, Cat. IV., 121. 



In damp .sjiuts on the flat lanil noilii of the Ferry, al Kamloops, 

 B.C., June 22nd, 1SS9. (Macoun.) 



(2554.) C. retnota, Linn.; Macoun, Cat. IV., 122. 



Professor Bailey writes me that this sj)ecies is of very doubtlul 

 occurrence in Canada, so we cancel it. 



