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Lake Mistassini, N.E.T. ; Charlton Island, " The Twins," and Fort 

 George, James Bay ; Severn River, Keewatin ; Muskeg Island, Lake- 

 Winnipeg. (J. M. Macoun.) Lakes Superior and Huron ; Fort Simpson, 

 Fort Chipweyan, and Methy Portage. (Richardson.') Wet prairies at 

 Emerson, Man. (Burgess.) Extremely abundant over the whole prairie 

 region, on the borders of ponds and in marshes, extending north- 

 westerly to Peace River, in lat. 58; rather common in the Rocky 

 Mountains, from Calgary, on Bow River, to Roger's Pass, in the Sel- 

 kirk Mountains, B.C. j common in northern British Columbia, extend- 

 ing far northward ; rather rare on Vancouver Island ; only observed at 

 Lost Lake, near Cedar Hill. (Macoun.) Canada to Mackenzie River ; 

 Rocky Mountains. (Hooker, Fl.) Ounalashka and Kotzebue Sound. 

 (Rothr. Alask.) 



Yar. epigeios, Laest. Yet. Ac. Handl., 339, (1822.) 



C. stans, Drej. Revis. Grit. Car. 40, (1841.) 



C. aquatilis, var. minor, Boott, 111. 163. 



From Colorado to the Arctic coast. (Bailey.) Arctic sea-coast. 

 {Richardson.) In meadows at the mouth of Madeline River, Gaspe* 

 coast, Q. ; in ditches near Windsor, N. S. Evidently approaching 

 C. stricta, but neither young nor old sheaths reticulated; another 

 form named C. borealis by Olney, was gathered along the shore of 

 Lake Superior, at Thunder Bay, in 1869. This specimen seems to 

 approach C. vulgaris var. juncella. (Macoun.) 



(2603.) C. Stricta, Lamarck, Diet, De. Bot. III., 387, (1789.) 

 C. acuta, Pursh, Fl. I., 38, (1814.) 

 C. angustata, Boott, Hook., Fl. II., 218, (1840.) 

 C. strictior, Dew., Wood's Cl. Book, 755, (1861.) 

 C. Virginiana, var. elongata, Boeckeler, Linnsea, XL., 432, (1875.) 



Common in ditches ; growing in thick clumps, especially in the 

 eastern provinces. Newfoundland. (Reeks.) Halifax, N.S. (Sommers, 

 Cat.) Common in boggy meadows at North Sydney, and Louisburg, 

 Cape Breton ; abundant in ditches and bogs at Point Pleasant, Halifax, 

 and Yarmouth, N.S. (Macoun.) Glenelg, Guysboro Co., N.S. (Fari- 

 bault.) Richibucto, Kent Co. ; Fredericton, Norton, and Salmon River, 

 N.B. (Fowler, Cat.) Becscie River, Anticosti. (Macoun.) Yicinity 

 of Ottawa. (Fletcher, Fl. Ott.) Common around Prescott, Ont. 

 (Billings.) Yicinity of Hamilton, Ont. (JLogie.) Common in marshy 

 meadows near Belleville, and at Trenton, and Owen Sound, Ont.; near 

 Lake Ellen, Nipigon River, and along the Kaministiqua, west of Port 

 Arthur. (Macoun.) West of Grand Island marsh, Georgian Bay. 

 (R. Bell.) Wet river bank, London, Ont. (Burgess.) Port Colborne, 

 Lake Erie. (McGill Coll. Herb.) 



