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Eiver, Keewatin. (J. M. Macoun.*) Saskatchewan, and northward to 

 Bear Lake. (Bailey.) Canada to Mackenzie Eiver. (Hooker, FL) 

 JVtethy Portage. (Richardson.*) 



<2605.) C. acuta, Linn., Sp. PL, 1388, (1757.) 



C. aperta, var. divaricata, Bailey, Bot. Gaz. IX., 119, in part, (1884.) 

 We have few specimens which we can refer here, but place them 

 mostly under the variety which follows. Sitka. (Rothr. Alask.*) Lewes 

 Eiver, lat. 62, N.W.T. (Dawson.) 



Yar. prolixa, Hornem. Plantel. Ed. IY. 



C.prolixa, Fries. Mant. III., 150, (1835.) 

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



Yery abundant in low grounds, producing very good hay in numerous 

 ^places, especially at Cedar Hill, and Nanaimo. Specimens were col- 

 lected at Cedar Hill, Goldstream, Shawnigan Lake, Qualicum, Mount 

 Arrowsmith, and Sproat Lake, on the west coast of Yancouver Island. 

 (Macoun.) In meadows at Yictoria, Yancouver Island. (Fletcher.') 



(2606.) C. GLAUCA, Scopoli, Fl. Germ. 455. 



Introduced on dry clay banks of the railway cutting just outside of 

 Windsor, N.S. (Macoun & Burgess.} On the border of a meadow, in 

 poor soil, London, Ont. (Burgess.) 



(2607.) C. torta, Boott; Tuckerman, Enum. Meth. (1843.) 



C. torta, var. composita, Porter. 



Borders of streams and in wet meadows in the maritime provinces. 

 Halifax, N.S. (Sommers, Oat.) Along a small stream at Truro, N.S. 

 (Macoun & Burgess.) Salmon Creek, and Gaspereaux Eiver; Petitco- 

 diac, N.B. (Fowler, Cat.) 



,(2608.) C. salina, Wahl., Fl. Lapp. 246, (1812.) 



C. cuspidata, Wahl. Kongl. Acad. Handl. XXIV., 164, (1802.) 

 C. stricta, Hook. & Am. Bot. Beechey's Voy., 131, (1834.) 

 C. recta, Boott, Hook., Fl. II., 220, (1840.) 

 C. hsematolepis, Drej. Re vis. Grit. Car. 44, (1841.) 



Yery abundant in salt marshes in almost every part of Nova Scotia 

 /and around the Gulf of St. Lawrence. Newfoundland. (Reeks.) 

 Coast of Labrador and about Hudson Bay. (Bailey.) Louisburg, and 

 North Sydney, Cape Breton ; Truro, Annapolis, Yarmouth and Halifax, 

 N.S. (Macoun.) Salt marsh at Molus Bay, Kent Co., N.B. (Fowler, 

 >Cat.*) Salt Lake and English Bay, Anticosti ; Cape Eosier, Fox Eiver, 



