252 GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA. 



(2965.) E. hyemale, Linn. ; Hook. Fl. II., 270 in part. 



Quite common throughout the northern forests, and westward through 

 the mountains to the Pacific. Bather rare at Bass Biver ; also at 

 Drummond, Victoria Co., N.B. (Fowler's Cat.} Portage, Kent Co. ; 

 Bairdsville and Simmonds, Carleton Co., N.B. (Brittcrin.) Riviere 

 de Brig, and Jupiter River, Anticosti ; Brackley Point, and elsewhere 

 on P. E. I. ; common along the Gasp6 coast, Q. (Macoun.) Lac St. 

 Joseph, Portneuf Co., Q. (St. Cyr.) Vicinity of Ottawa. (Fletcher Fl. 

 Ott.) Gravelly banks, London, Ont. (Burgess.} Queen Charlotte 

 Islands. (Dawson.) 



(2966.) E. ramosissimum, Desf. 



We refer to this species forms intermediate between E. hyemale and 

 E. variegatum but which differ from the first in having a short black 

 sheath with soft fragile teeth which are united in groups by thin white 

 membranous margins, and tipped with a long soft point, from the 

 latter by the greater number of ridges, greater size arid longer teeth/ 

 Spekc's Point, Lake Nepigon, Ont., Shawnagin Lake, Vancouver 

 Island. (Macoun.} 



(2967.) E. variegatum, chleicher, Hook. Fl. II., 270. 



In sand by rivers and lakes; not rare. Near Andover, N.B. ; rare 

 (Brittam.) Riviere de Brig, and Salt Lake, Anticosti, and at Gasp^ 

 Basin, Q. (Macoun.) Border of the Montmorency River at Beau- 

 port, Q. (St. Cyr.) Wet places, Niagara Falls. (Burgess.*) Shore 

 of Lake Ontario, at Presqu'Ile Point, near Brighton ; sands, Lake 

 Nepigon ; Red Deer River, Lat. 53, Man. ; along the Bow River, in 

 sand and westward through the Rocky Mountains to the Columbia at 

 Donald, in sand along Shuswap Lake, and on the Indian Reservation at 

 Kamloops, B.C. ; also along the shores of Home and Cameron lakes, Van- 

 couver Island. (Macoun.) Elk River, Kootanie Valley ; along the 

 Upper Liard River, N.W.T. (Dawson.) Frequent in Canada and 

 thence to the Saskatchewan and Arctic Sea. (Hooker- FL) Green- 

 land, (ftosenvinge). Bartlett Bay, Alaska. (Meehan.) 



(2968.) E. scirpoides, Michx. Fl. II., 281. 

 E. variegatum var. ft. Hook. Fl. II., 270. 



Common on the slopes of cool ravines arid in swampy woods north- 

 ward. Nottingham Island, Hudson Strait. (E. Bell.) Pictou, N.S. 

 (McKay.) Common about River Charlo and Point Le Nim, N.B. 

 (Fowler's Cat.) Wet places at Truro, N.S. ; Brackley Point and other 



