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(Macoun.) Vicinity of Hamilton Ont. (Logie.) Swamps at London, 

 Ont. (Millman. burgess.) Point Edward, Kiver St. Glair, Ont. ( J. M. 

 Macoun.) Fifteen miles up the Kaministiqua River, west of Lake 

 Superior. (Macoun.) Sault Ste. Marie ; Oxford Lake and Nelson River, 

 Keewatin. (R. Bell.) Saskatchewan. Hooker, Fl.) 



667. ERIOPHORUM, Linn. Gen. 68. 



(2486.) E. cyperinum, Linn. ; Benth. & Hook., Gen. Plant, III., 1052. 



Scirpus Eriophorum, Michx., var. cyperinus, Gray, Man. Ed. V., 565 \ 



Macoun, Cat. No. 1925- 

 Trichophorum cyperinum, Pers. ; Pursh, Fl. I., 57. 



Rather common in ditches and swamps throughout eastern Canada. 

 Newfoundland. (Reeks.) Whycocomagh, Cape Breton ; and Truro, 

 N.S. (Macoun.) Magdalen Islands. (J. Richardson.) Abundant at 

 Pictou, N.S. (McKay.) Glenelg, Guysboro Co., KS. (Faribault.) 

 Campbellton, N.B. (Macoun.) Thunder Eiver and St. Sauveur, Q. 

 (St. Cyr.) Tadousac, Q. (A. T. Drummond.) In pools of water at 

 Huckleberry Rapids, Argenteuil Co., Q. (D' Urban.) Vicinity of 

 Ottawa. (Fletcher, Fl. Ott.) Kemptville, Ont. (Porter.) Common 

 around Prescott, Ont. (Billings.) Very abundant in central Ontario. 

 (Macoun.) Vicinity of Hamilton, Ont. (Logie.) Swamps, London, 

 Ont. (Burgess. Millman.) Sault Ste. Marie \ Echimamish River, 

 Keewatin. (R. Bell.) Abundant at the mouth of the Kaministiqua 

 River, at Fort William, Lake Superior. (Macoun.) Hudson Bay; 

 Canada to the Saskatchewan. (Hooker, Fl.) 



All the preceding notices are supposed to belong to Scirpus Eriop- 

 horum, Michx., var. cyperinus, Gray, which seems to be the common 

 form. 



Var. laxus, Gray, Man. Ed. V., 565. 



Scirpus Eriophorum, Michx., var. laxus, Gray, Man. Ed. V, 565. 



This is distinguished from all the other forms by its scattered heads, 

 but more particularly by the long pedicelled lateral heads and sessile 

 middle one. Along the Restigouche, near Campbellton, N .B. ; wet mea- 

 dows, Whycocomagh, Cape Breton ; common at Belleville, Ont. ; also 

 Flat Rock Portage, Lake Nipigon, Ont. (Macoun.) Severn River, 

 Keewatin. (J. M. Macoun.) Wet places, London, Ont. (Burgess. 

 Millman.) 



