CATALOatJE OF CANADIAN PLANTS. 385 



Var. Deanii, Bailey, Mem. Ton-. Bot. Club, I., 42. 

 C. Novx-Anglis:, Macoun, Cat. IV., 160, in part. 



"Taller and laxer, the culms fi-om 6 to 12 inches high and some or 

 all prominently exceeding the long, loose, soft leaves ; staminate spike 

 much larger (2 to 3 lines long), erect or oblique, strictly sessile; 

 pistillate spikes larger (four to eight-flowered), less aggregated or the 

 lowest usually separated, though rarely more than a quarter of an inch 

 removed; radical spikes usually numerous; bract mostly longer. 

 Macnab's Island, Halifax Harbor, and Truro, N.S. ; crevices of rocks, 

 Brackley Point, Prince Edward Island ; Sudbury Junction and Port 

 Arthur, Ont. (^Macoun.) 



Vai-. media, Bailey, Mem. Torr. Bot. Club, I., 43. 



C. Novse-Anglia;, var. defiexa, Bailey ; Macoun, Cat. I\'., 160. 



" Eather stiff', 4 to 12 inches high, in dense tufts ; most of the culms 

 somewhat exceeding the leaves ; staminate spike prominent and erect, 

 3 to 5 lines long, sessile or very short peduncled ; pistillate spikes two 

 or three, all scatteied, the uppermost at, or near, the base of the 

 staminate spike, the lowest very prominently peduncled and subtended 

 by a conspicuous bract w^ich surpasses the culm, all rather compactly, 

 three to eight-flowered, gi'een, or brown-green ; radical spikes usually 

 abundant; perigynium much as in short-beaked forms of C umbellata ; 

 scales large and sharp equalling or exceeding the perigynium." Grassy 

 thickets, McLeods Lake, and Telegraph Trail, B.C. ; also on Mount 

 Arrowsmith, Vancouver Island. Alt. 5500 feet. {Macoun.) 



Var. Rossi i, Bailey, Mem. Torr. Bot. Club, I., 43. 



C. A'(/i .1 -Angli:r, var. Rotsii, Bailey ; Macoun, Cat. IV., 160. 



" Stiff throughout, very strict, the leaves mostly equalling or ex- 

 ceeding the culms, the whole plant usually light-colored; staminate 

 spike much as in the last, often larger ; pistillate spikes one to three, 

 distinct or sometimes scattered, loosely one to four-flowered; radical 

 spikes usually abundant ; scales very sharp, greenish-white or very 

 rarely bearing an inconspicuous colored margin." In woods, from the 

 Pacitic coast to Spence's Bridge. {^Macoun.) 



(3199.) C. amplifolia, Boott; Hook. PI. II., 228, t. 226. 



In abundance in and around springs in woods Vernon, near Lake 

 Okanagan, B.C. 1SS9. {Macoun.) 



