384 GEO'LOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA. 



spike very short (usually only a fourth or a third of an inch long), 

 closely sessile-inclined and inconspicuous ; lowest bract leaf-like, often 

 an inch or two long." On the sides of ravines, Truro, and Pirate's 

 Cove, Strait of Canso, N.S. 1883. {Macoun & Burgess.) 



(2649.) C. varia, Muhl. in Wahl. Kongl. Acad. Hand!., XXIV., 159. 

 (1803.) Baile}-, Mem. Torr. Bot. Club, I., 40. 



Eeferences under C. Emmonsii, Dewey, Part IV., 159, belong liei-e. 



(2650.) C. Novae-Angliae, Schw. ; Bailey, Mem. Ton-. Bot. Club, 

 I., 44. 



C. NovX'Anglise, Macoun, Cat. rV'., 160, in jiart. 



" Very slender, stolonil'erous, the culms to 8 inches high, about 

 the length of the very narrow loose leaves; staminate spike quite 

 distinct, erect and prominent, 3 to 8 lines long, mostly minutely 

 peduncled, exceedingly narrow (about half a line broad) ; pistillate 

 spikes usually two, the upper near Ihe base of tlie staminate spike, the 

 lower from J to 1 inch removed and sliort-stalkcd and subtended by a 

 bract which nearly or quite equals the culm, both rather loosely three 

 to six-flowered ; radical spikes none; pcrigynium very narrow, often 

 nearly oblanceolate, very thinly hairj-, the sharp beak prominent; 

 stigmas often two." In damp woods, Point Pleasant, Halifax, N.S. 

 {Bunjess d- Macoun.') Grassy places at Cove Head and Bi-ackley 

 Point, Prince Edward Island. {Macoun.) Woods near St. Martin, 

 N.B. 1888. (Brittain.) 



(3198.) C. deflexa, Hornemann; Bailey, Mem. Torr. Bot. Club, 

 I., 41. 



C. Novx-Anglix, Macoun, Cat. IV., 160, in part. 



" Very low, much tufted ; culms from 1 to 6 inches long, setaceous 

 more or less curved or spreading, little exceeding or shoiter than the 

 narrow leaves ; staminate spike exceedingly minute and nearly always 

 invisible in the head; pistillate spikes two or three, two to five- 

 flowered, green or green-and-brown, all aggregated into a small head, 

 the lowest one always more or less short-peduncled and subtended bj- 

 a leafy bract, a half inch or less long ; radical spikes very few or none; 

 perigynium very small, much contracted below, sparsely hairy or 

 nearly smooth, the flat beak exceedingly short." On sandy or rocky 

 places near water, Gaspe Peninsula, Q. {Macoun.) Portage, Kent 

 Co., N.B. {Brittain.) 



