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Lake Superior, and in swamps at Port Arthur, Thunder Bay ; Nipigon 

 River, Lake Superior. (Mawun.) Lake Mistassini, N.E.T. (/. M. 

 Macoun.) Mossy bog, London, Ont. (Burgess. Millman.) Abundant 

 in marshes at Swan Lake House, and around the Porcupine Mountain, 

 Man.; Beaver Creek, in the Selkirk Mountains, B.C. ; swamps near 

 McLeod's Lake, northern British Columbia. (Macoun.) Vancouver 

 city, Burrard Inlet, B.C. (Prof. Fowler.') It is probable that some 

 of the above references belong to the next variety, as we have not 

 seen the specimens. 



Var. alpicola, Wahl. 



C. sphxrostycha, Dew. Sill. Journ. XLIX., 44, (1845.) 



C. canescens, var. mtilis, Macoun Cat. No. 1968, in part, (1878.) 



Smaller than the species (seldom over a foot high), the culm stiff in 

 most alpine forms, more or less slender in the subalpine forms ; spikes 

 small and globular, or nearly so, well defined brown or tawny. Alpine 

 or subalpine, across the continent. (B<dley.) Marshes at Truro, and 

 Halifax, N.S. (Burgzss & Macoun.') Along the Gasp coast, and up 

 the Ste. Anne des Monts Eiver, and on Mount Albert, Shickshock 

 Mountains, Q. ; Partridge Lake, North Hastings, and in a swamp near 

 Bollville, Ont. (Macoun.) 



(2557.) C. arcta, Boott, 111., 155, t. 497. 



C. canescens, var. polystachya, Boott. ; Rich. Journ. II., 344. 

 C. Kunzei, Olney, Proced. Am. Acad., 407, (1872.) 



Swamps and ditches; extending from New Brunswick westward to 

 Vancouver Island. Petitcodiac, Hampton, Portage, and Moss Glen, 

 King's Co., N.B. (Brittain.) Gatineau Point, near Hull, Q. (Fletcher, 

 FL Ott.) Wet shore of Lake Champlain, Q. (Pringle.) Abundant 

 on Long Portage, Nipigon Eiver ; also on a Portage near Eainy Lake, 

 Dawson route ; very abundant in ditches and wet meadows at Victoria, 

 and Nanaimo, Vancouver Island. (Macoun ) Cedar Hill, near Victoria, 

 Vancouver Island. (Fletcher.) Burrard Inlot, at Vancouver city, B.C. 

 (Prof. Fowler.) Eainy Lake and Lake of the Woods. (Richardson.) 



(2558.) C. Deweyana, Schweinitz, An. Tab. (1823) ; Hook., Fl. 

 II., 213. 



C. remota, Rich. App. Frankl. Exp. (1823) ; Pursh, Fl. I., 37. 

 In dry grassy thickets, abundant from the Atlantic westward. 

 Point Pleasant, near Halifax ; and Windsor, N.S. (Macoun.) Bass 

 Eiver; Petitcodiac; Gaspereau Eiver, and Salmon Eiver; Aroostook 

 Falls, N.B. (Fowler, Cat.) Tobique Eiver, N.B. (Hay.) Thickets 

 -along the Jupiter Eiver, Anticosti; Eiver Ste. Anne des Monts, Gaspe* 



