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(2472.) H. tenuis, Schultes. ; Torr. Gyp., 309. 

 Scirpus tenuis, Willd. ; Torr. Fl. I., 44. 



Not uncommon, growing in wet meadows and boggy places. On a 

 wet boggy place at Truro, and North-west Arm, Halifax, N".S., and at 

 North Sydney, and Louisburg, Cape Breton. (Macoun.) Halifax, N.8. 

 (Sommers.) On a wet bank, Kouchibouguac ; Tobique Lakes, Petitco- 

 diac, and Hampton, N.B. (Fowler, Cat.) Salt Lake, Anticosti, and 

 marshes at Grand Etang, Grasp coast, Q. (Macoun.) Island of Orleans, 

 Q. (St. Cyr.) Shores of Thunder Bay, and along the east coast of 

 Lake Superior ; east coast of Lake Nipigon. (Macoun.) Lake of the 

 Woods. (Burgess.) Muskeg Creek, Lake Winnipeg. (J. M. Macoun.) 

 Marshes along the base of Porcupine Mountain, Man. ; Moose Jaw 

 Creek, Assiniboia ; along the Bow River, at Morley, and westward to 

 Kananaskis Station, Rocky Mountains. (Macoun.) 



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(24?3.) H. acicularis, R.Br.; Hook., Fl. II., 230. ; 



Scirpus acicularis, Linn. ; Pursh, Fl. I., 54. 

 S. capillaceus, Michx., FL L, 30. 



Muddy places, not uncommon from the Atlantic to the Pacific. 

 Ditches at Truro, N.S. (Macoun.) Louisburg, Cape Breton. (Burgess.) 

 Muddy shores and ditches ; common ; Spurr's Cove, N.B. (Fowler, Cat.) 

 Campbellton, N.B. (Chalmers.) Salt Lake, Anticosti ; Ste. Anne des 

 Monts River, Gaspd,Q. (Macoun.) Thunder Creek, Q. (St. Cyr.) St. John, 

 Q. (W. F. McCrea.) Abundant on all muddy river banks at Ottawa. 

 (Fletcher, FL Ott.) Common in ditches at Prescott, Ont. (Billings.) 

 Kemptville, Ont. (Porter.) Yery common in suitable places through- 

 out central Ontario. (Macoun.) Yicinity of Hamilton, Ont. (Buchan.) 

 Low ground, London, Ont. (Burgess. Millman.) Chicken Bay, Lake 

 Huron ; Sault Ste. Marie and east coast of Lake Superior. (Macoun.) 

 North shore of Lake Superior. (Agassi z.) Lake of the Woods; and 

 Red River prairie, Man. (Dawson.) Red Deer River, near the Hand 

 Hills, and frequent on the margin of pools in the prairie region; not 

 uncommon in boggy places at Victoria, Nanaimo, and Alberni, Van- 

 couver Island. (Macoun.) Hudson Bay, Red River, and the Saskatche- 

 wan. (Hooker, FL) 



(2474.) H. pygmsea, Torr. Cyp., 313. 



Scirpus pusillus, Vahl. ; Pursh, Fl. L, 54. 



Brackish marshes along the sea-coast. Baddeck, Cape Breton. 

 (Macoun & Burgess.) Sea-shore, Kent Co., N.B. (Fowler, Cat.) Saguenay 

 River, Q. (Burgess.) Lower St. Lawrence. (C. Gr. Pringle.) Salt, 

 marshes at Alberni, west coast of Vancouver Island. (Macoun.) 



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