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III. Uppermost spikelet androgynous, male at base; the others female* 



* Stigmas II. 



(2574.) C. bicolor, Allioni, Fl. Fed. II., 26*7 ; Hook., Fl. II., 216. 

 Greenland, and Labrador. (Hooker, Fl.*) Greenland. (Lange.) We- 

 have Eocky Mountain specimens of C. aurea, which have black scales 

 with a white centre, which approach this, but the beak of the fruit 

 is that of the latter species. 



* * Stigmas III. 



(2575.) C. Buxbaumii, Wahl. Kongl. Acad. Handl. XXIV., 163, 

 (1802.) 



C. canescens, Hook., Fl. IT., 216, (1840.) 



Bogs and beaver meadows ; not uncommon from the Atlantic to the 

 Pacific. Newfoundland. (Reeks.) Bog at the head of the North 

 West Arm, Halifax, N.S. ; bogs at Louisburg, Cape Breton. (Macoun.) 

 Restigouche, near the mouth of the Upsalquitch ; Lily Lake, N.B. 

 (Fowler, Cat.) Near St. John, N.B. (Burgess.) Salt Lake, and Jupiter 

 River, Anticosti ; Point Fame, and Matane, Gasps' coast, Q. (Macoun.) 

 Bogs, vicinity of Ottawa. (Fletcher, Fl. Ott.) Beaver meadow, bor- 

 der of Hooper's Lake, Tudor, Hastings Co. ; Red Bay, Lake Huron ;. 

 Sturgeon Lake, Nipigon River ; on rocks at the head of the rapid 

 Current River, Port Arthur, and on marshy ground at Pic River, and 

 Otter Head, east coast Lake Superior. (Macoun.) Bogs, near King- 

 ston, Ont. (Prof. Fowler.) Lake Mistassini, N.E.T. (J. M. Macoun.) 

 In mountain meadows, and bogs from Morley westward through the 

 Rocky Mountains to Roger's Pass, Selkirk Mountains ; shores of Home 

 Lake, near Qualicum, Vancouver Island. (Macoun.) Canada to Cum- 

 berland House, on the Saskatchewan ; Lake Winnipeg, near Norway 

 House; Observatory Inlet> and Sitka. (Hooker, F I.) Sitka. (Rothr. 

 Alask.) 



(2576.) C. Cmelini, Hook., Bot, Eeechy's Voy., 118, (1834) ; 



Hook., Fl. II., 216. 



Oregon to Alaska. (Bailey.) North West coast, and Kotzebue 

 Sound. (Hooker, Fl.) Sitka, Ounalashka, and Kotzebue Sound. (Rothr. 

 Alask.) Port Etches, Alaska. (Barclay. Specimen sent from British 

 Museum.) 



(2577.) C. Mertensii, Prescott, (1833); Hook., Fl. II., 217. 



C. Columbian^ Dew. Sill. Journ. XXX., 62, (1836.) 

 One of the finest carices we have, and even worthy of a place in our- 



