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Massassagua Point, near Belleville ; and on dry rocks, Tudor, North 

 Hastings, Ont., and Livingstone Point, Lake Nipigon, Ont. (Macoun.) 

 Woods near London, Ont. (Burgess. Millman.) Very abundant on, 

 the dry prairie west of Winnipeg, at Brandon, File Hills, Long Lake,. 

 Moose Jaw Creek, Old Wives Lakes, and westward to the Rocky 

 Mountains. (Macoun.) Oba Lake, Ont. ; and Nelson River, Keewatin. 

 (Jl. Bell.} Turtle Mountain, Man., and South Antler Creek, Assiniboia. 

 (Burgess.) Stony Mountain, Man. (Prof. Fowler.) 



Var. tenera, Boott, 111. 120. 



C. tenera, Olney, Car. Bor. Am. (ined.) 



This form is distinguished by its weak culm, longer leaves,'much- 

 . smaller spikelets and its different habit. Its usual habitat is damp 

 meadows, where it grows in large clumps. It is distinguished from 

 var. aperta by its erect culms and smaller spikelets. Kent Co., N.B. ; 

 rather rare. (Fowler, Oat.) Windsor, and Pictou, N.S. (Macoun.') 

 Casselman, and Billing's Bridge, near Ottawa. (Fletcher, Ft. Ott.) 

 Port Colborne, Lake Erie. (McGill Coll. Herb.) Common in wet 

 meadows in central Ontario, extending westward to Port Arthur, and 

 Fort William, Thunder Bay, Lake Superior. (Macoun.) Observation 

 Point, Lake Winnipeg. (J. M. Macoun.) Abundant in damp soil, from 

 Winnipeg westward to Manitoba House, Lake Manitoba, Brandon, 

 File Hills, and the Elbow of the South Saskatchewan. (Macoun^ 

 Lake Winnipeg. {Hooker, Fl.) 



Var. festucacea, Boott, 111. 120. 



C.festucacea, Willd. (1805) ; Pursh, Fl. I., 38 ; Hook., Fl. II., 215. 



Heads larger than the preceding, usually more scattered, slightly 

 tapering to the base ; perigynia long-beaked, and slightly spreading. 

 St. John, and Digdeguash, N.B. (Fowler, Cat.) In meadows at Bad- 

 deck, Cape Breton. (Macoun. Burgess.) Vicinity of Ottawa. (Fletcher, 

 Fl. Ott.) Banks of the Rivie're Rouge, at Bevin's Lake, Argentcuil 

 Co., Q. (D 1 Urban.) Rather common in low wet meadows at Belle- 

 ville, and westward through Ontario to Thunder Bay, Lake Superior. 

 (Macoun.) Woodstock, Ont. (Millman.) London, and Parry Sound v 

 Ont.' (Burgess.) 



Var. f cenea, Torrey, Cyp. 395, (1836.) 



C.fcenea, Willd. Enum. PI. Hort. Berol. 957, (1809.) 



C. straminea, var. chlorostachys, Boeckeler, Linnsea XXXIX., 118, (1875.) 



We have no Canadian specimens of this variety except one from 

 Olney, which he obtained from Prof. Fowler, of Queen's College, King- 

 ston, Ont., in 1870, collected in Kent Co., New Brunswick. 



