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II. Spike composed of sessile and androgynous, or rarely dioecious spikelets. 



Stigmas II. 



* Spikes dioecious, or the spikelets androgynous with the male and female 

 flowers irregularly intermixed. 



(2526.) C. bromoides, Schk. (1802); Pursh, Fl. I., 35, (1814); 



Hook., Fl. II., 212. 



Swamps and wet grassy places ; rather rare. Marsh near Truro, 

 N.S. ' (Macoun.) Pollet Biver and Portage, Petitcodiac; Arthurette, 

 and Salmon Eiver, N.B. (Fowler, Cat.) Vicinity of Ottawa. (Fletcher, 

 FL Ott.) Common in swamps at Prescott, Ont. (Billings.) Piece of 

 damp woods east of Belleville, Ont. (Macoun.) Swamps near Hamil- 

 ton, Ont. (Logie.) Bogs and swamps at London, and Parry Sound, 

 Ont. (Burgess.) British America ; Eocky Mountains. (Hooker, Fl.) 



(2527.) C. Siccata, Dew. Sill. Journ. X., 278, (1826) : Hook., Fl. 

 II., 212. 



C.pallida, C. A. Meyer, Cyp. Nov. No. 21, (1830.) 



Dry gravelly, or sandy soil, having a wide range to the north-west- 

 ward. Vicinity of Ottawa. (Fletcher, Fl. Ott.) Grand Trunk gravel 

 pit, near Prescott, and woodlands west of Brockville, Ont. (Billings.) 

 Dry thickets east and west of Belleville, Ont.; Eice Lake Plains, and 

 sandy ground generally throughout central Ontario. (Macoun.) Vicin- 

 ity of London, Ont. ; Lake of the Woods, and Emerson, Man. (Burgess.) 

 Red River prairie, lat. 49. (Dawson.) Stony Mountain, Man. (Prof. 

 Fowler.) East coast of Lake Nipigon, and at the Pic and Michipicotin 

 rivers, Lake Superior ; Point Meuron, and Kakabeka Falls, Kaminis- 

 tiqua Eiver; very abundant in many parts of the prairie region, 

 especially on gravelly slopes ; common on dry hill-sides, at Morley 

 and westward to Canmore in the Eocky Mountains ; abundant around 

 Cache Creek, and on the dry slopes near Spence's Bridge, B.C. (Macoun.) 

 Methy Portage and Saskatchewan Eiver. (Richardson.) Pelly Eiver, 

 lat. 63. N.W.T. (Dawson.) Cumberland House, Saskatchewan Eiver ; 

 Lake Winnipeg and Eocky Mountains. (Hooker, Fl.) 



(2528.) C. disticha, Hudson, Fl. Angl., 403, (1762.) 



C. intermedia, Good. Linn. Trans. II., 154, (1792) ; Hook., Fl. II., 212. 

 a Sartwellii, Dew. Sill. Journ. XLIIL, 90, (1842.) 



Marshes and margins of bogs, rather local. Newfoundland. (Reeks.) 

 Eiver side, Kemptville, Ont. (Porter.) Ditch along the G. T. Eailway, 

 between the wooden bridges, Belleville ; also on Bleecker's Farm, west 

 of the college, and on Ferry Point, south of Belleville Ont. ; abundant 



