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tains, and at Golden City, in the Columbia Valley, B.C. ; abundant in 

 meadows and thickets in many parts of Vancouver Island, especially 

 at Victoria and Nanaimo. (Macoun.) 



(2550.) C. athrostachya, Olney, Proced. Am. Acad. VII.,~393, 



(mi.) 



Grassy thickets and meadows, growing in large clumps. Abundant 

 in the Cypress and Bear Hills, Alberta; in British Columbia, at 

 McLcod's Lake, lat. 55 ; quite common in meadows and thickets 

 in the neighborhood of Victoria, and Nanaimo, Vancouver Island. 

 (Maeoun.) 



(2551.) C. sychnocephala, Carey, Sill. Journ. IV., 24, (1847.) 



C. cyperoides, Dew. Sill. Journ. III., 171, (1847.) 



Quite common in many localities in Ontario and the prairie region. 

 Always found growing in tufts in ditches and wet, sandy places. 

 Ditches along the Canadian Pacific railway, near Ottawa. (Fletcher, 

 FL Ott.) Near the Freight House, Prescott Junction, Ont. (Billings.) 

 Millpond, Madoc Village ; in a meadow along the Moira Eiver, Mar- 

 mora township, and along Crow Eiver, near Marmora village, all in 

 Hastings Co. ; abundant along the Port Hope and Lindsay Eailroad, 

 three miles south of Lindsay ; border of a swamp five miles from Owen 

 Sound, on the road to Southampton, Ont. ; abundant on the margin of 

 ponds, from Manitoba westward to near Battleford, on Battle Eiver. 

 (Macoun.) Quite common in gravel and wet sand, on the west shore 

 of Lake Winnipeg. (J. M. Macoun.) 



* * * Spikelets distinct or nearly so. 

 f Spikelets male at top. 



(2552.) C. tenella, Schkuhr, Eiedgr. 104, (1801.) 



C. disperma, Dew. Sill. Journ. VIII., 266, (1824) ; Hook., Fl. II., 211. 

 C. gracilis, Gray, Sill. Journ. IV., 22, (1847.) 



Abundant in cedar swamps and wet woods generally, from the 

 Atlantic to the Pacific. Newfoundland. (Cormack.) Truro, and 

 sphagnum swamp at the head of the North West Arm, Halifax, N.S. 

 (Macoun & Burgess.) Magdalen Islands. (J. Richardson.) Near Pictou, 

 N.S. (McKay.) Damp shady woods. Bass Eiver, N.B. (Fowler, Cat.) 

 Tobique Eiver, N.B. (Hay.) Bogs at Salt Lake and Jupiter Eiver, 

 Anticosti. (Macoun.) Island of Orleans, Q. (St. Cyr.) Madeline 

 Eiver, Gasps', Q. (Porter.) Eecollet Swamp, Montreal. (C. F. McUrea.) 

 Abundant at Sugar Bush Lake, Montcalm Co., Q. (D' Urban.) Dow's 

 Swamp and other places at Ottawa. (Fletcher, Fl. Ott.) Marshy 



