CATALOGUE OF CANADIAN PLANTS. 133 



Var. alata, Bailey, Carex, Cat. (1884.) 



C. alata, Torr. Gyp. 396, (1836.) 



C. alata, var. pulchra, Olney, Exsicc. L, 14, (1870.) 



Bass Eiver, Kent Co., N.B., 1870. (Prof. Fowler vide Olney.) _Not 

 "uncommon in thickets west of Portage la Prairie, Man. (Macoun.) 



Var. mixta, Bailey, Carex, Syn. 151, (1886.) 



C. lagopodioides, W. Boott, Bot. Calif. II., 237, (1880.) 

 C. adusta, W. Boott, Bot. Calif. II., 238, (1880.) 



This variety is the representative of G. straminea on Vancouver 

 Island. It is rather rare, being observed only on Cedar Hill, and at 

 Uanaimo, and Alberni. (Macoun.) 



Var. moniliformis, Tuckerman, Enum. Meth., 17, (1843.) 

 C.fcenea, var. (?) sabulonum, Gray, Man. Ed. V., 580, (1868.) 

 C. silicea, Olney, Proced. Am. Acad. VII., 393, (1868.) 

 C. straminea, var. silicea, Bailey, Carex, Cat. (1884.) 



This variety is intended to include only the maritime form on the 

 Atlantic coast. Sand beach, South Bar, North Sydney, Cape Breton ; 

 on the beach, Point Pleasant, Halifax, N.S. (Macoun.) Sand beaches 

 on the coast at Kouchibouguac, N.B. (Fowler, Cat.) IT Anse a Griffon, 

 G-aspe* coast. (Macoun.) 



Var. aperta, Boott, 111. 120. 



C. tenera, Dew. Sill. Journ. VIIL, 97, (1824.) 



C. tenera, var. major, Olney, Exsicc. II., 15, (1870.) 



C. straminea, var. tenera, Bailey, Bot. Gaz. X., 381, (1885.) 



This form is very little known in Canada, but is very likely common 

 in the eastern provinces, and taken either for the type or var. tenera. It 

 is distinguished from my tenera by its globular spikelets disposed in a 

 loose nodding head, with a long setaceous bract at the base of the lower 

 one. In damp meadows near Casseiman, thirty miles south of Ottawa. 

 (Fletcher, Fl. Ott.) 



(2573.) C. leporina, Linn., var. Americana, Olney, Proced. 

 Am. Acad., 407, (1872.) 



C.petasata, Dew. Sill. Journ. XXIX., 246, (1836) ; Hook., Fl. II., 214. 

 C.ovalis, Good.; Hook., Fl. II., 214, (1840.) 



Eocky Mountains. (Hooker, FL) Abundant in British Columbia, 

 at Yale, Cache Creek, Clinton, and northward to the Nachacco, and 

 Fort McLeod, lat. 55; also on the summit of Mount Arrowsmith, 

 Vancouver Island. (Macoun.) Stikine Eiver, above the Canon, and at 

 'Telegraph Creek, lat. 58, B.C. (Dawson.) Oimalashka. (Rothr. Alask.) 



