CATALOGUE OF CANADIAN PLANTS. 1*75 



Var. aristata, Bailey, Bot. Gaz. X., 293, (1885.) 



C. aristata, R. Br. ; Hook., Fl. II., 222, (1840) ; Macoun, Cat. No. 1958. 



C. atherodes, Sprengl. Syst. Veg. III., 828. 



C. orthostachys, C. Meyer, Fl. Alt. IV., 231. 



C. aristata var. longo-lanceata, Dew. Sill. Journ. XVIII., 102, (1854. Y~ 



Marshes along the Grand Trunk Eailway, three miles east and five 

 miles west of Belleville, Ont., and in low boggy places, Crow River, 

 close to the bridge at Marmora, Hastings Co., Ont. (Macoun.) Wet 

 ground near the Ottawa and Prescott Railway, Fresco tt, Ont. (Billings.) 

 Lakes Superior and Huron. (Richardson.} Along the Kaministiqua 

 River twenty miles from Lake Superior ; very abundant throughout 

 the whole prairie region, and extending north to Peace River and 

 Lake Athabasca, to the base of the Rocky Mountains at Morley, 

 and in the Columbia Valley at Donald. (Macoun.} Nelson River, 

 Keewatin. (R. Bell.} Cumberland House, and Fort Carleton, on the 

 Saskatchewan. (Hooker, Fl.} This Carex produces much of the marsh 

 hay of the prairie region, and in summer is the chief food of Indian 

 ponies. It never grows in brackish marshes, and all ponds where 

 it grows have good water the whole season. 



Dr. Gray and Prof. Bailey place C. mirata, Dewey, under this 

 variety, but I think they are in error, as it has not the characters 

 which separate this form from the species, but rather those of variety 

 imberbis. I believe, however, it is a distinct variety. An examination 

 of Prof. Dewey's Herbarium will decide this, as he had many speci- 

 mens of it, collected by myself at Belleville, Ont., over twenty years 

 ago. Indeed, the probabilities are that both C. Bella-villa and C. mirata 

 equal C. livida, var. divergens, Bailey. 



(2689.) C. Alaskana, Boeckeler, Bugler's Bot. Jahrb. VII., Pt. 



III., 277, (1886$ 



Alaska. (Krause.} Specimens referred by Arthur Bennett, F.L.S., 

 with doubt to this species, were gathered in damp woods on the left 

 bank of the Red Deer River, about a mile and a half above the mouth, 

 at the head of Lake Winnepegoosis, Man., 1881. (Macoun.} 



Addendum to CyperaceaB. 



(2690.) Scirpus Clintonii, Gray, Ed. V., 561. 



S. planifolius. Muhl. ; Torr. Bot. N. York II., 351, in part. 



A rare species in Canada ; only known from New Brunswick, but 

 will likely be found along Lake Erie. Madawaska ; Dideguash, St. 

 Patrick, KB. (Fowler, Cat.) 



