OATALOG0E OP CANADIAN PLANTS. 377 



Vai: brunnea, 



Low and slender, scaicely a foot high, growing in tufts in ditches. 

 Spikes brown, scattered, 3 to 5, generally 4, small, but elongated, the 

 upper often half staniinate; lower bract seldom longer than the spike. 

 The scattered light-brown, elongated, spikes distingui.sh this variety 

 from all other forms of the species. Port Haney and Port Moody, B.C., 

 May 3rd, 1889. (Macoun.) 



(2565.) C. Liddoni, Boolt; Macoun, Cat. IV., V28. 



Fine specimens were collected at Lytton and Spence's Bridge on the 

 Thompson Eiver, B.C., JLiy, 1889. (Macoun.) 



(2566.) C. pratensis, Drej., var. furva, Bailey, MS. 

 C. pratensis, ^Macoun, Cat. IV., 12S, iu part, 

 "Spikes much lai-ger (han in the type (i in. or more long), more 

 loosely flowered, dark brown. The culms appear to be more sharply 

 angled, also." (Bailey.) Not uncommon in damp meadows at Cedar 

 Hill, Coldstream, and llirougliout southern Vancouver Island, May 

 27th and 3l8t, 1887. (^Macoun.) 



(2567.) C. foenea, Willd., Hnum. PI. Hort. Berl., 957. (1809.) 

 C. adwia, Macoun, Cat. IV., 129, in part- 

 '■Culm slender and often weak (! to2 feet high); head long and 

 weak; spikes five to eight, small and silvery green, much contracted 

 below and alternately disposctl ; pcrigynium varying from ovate to 

 long-ovate, thin, mucli longer than the small aehenium, prominently 

 rough-margined, strongly many-nerved on both sides ; bracts entirely 

 wanting or very inconspicuous." In the valley of Eagle Eiver at 

 Griffin Lake, B.C., July 7th, 1889. (Macoun.) 



Var. perplexa, Bailey; Mem. Torr. Bot. Club, I., 27. 

 C. adusla, Macoun, Cat. IV., 129, in part. 



'■ Mostly taller and stouter than the species, the spikes larger and 

 less attenuated or even truncate below, more approximate or even 

 aggregated, the head erect or nearly so and the lowest bract sometimes 

 prominent." Burnt woods, North Hastings, Ont., and near the Lake 

 of the "Woods. (Macoun.) 



(2568.) C. adusta, Boott; Hook. Fl. IL, 214. 



Eeferences under C. pinguis, Bailey, Part IV., 129, belong here. 

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