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(2545.) C. Hoodii, Boott; Bailey, Mem. Torr. Bot. Club, I., 14; 

 Macoun, Cat. IV., 119. 



C. muricata, Linn., var. confixa, Bailey ; Macoun, Cat. IV.j 119. 

 In thickets at Agassiz, B.C., May 14th, 1889. (Macoun.) 



(2549.) C. festive, Dew., var. pachystachya, Bailey, Mem. Torr. 

 Bot. Club, I., 51. 



C-f estiva, Dew., var. gracilis, Macoun, Cat. IV., 120, in part. 



"Culm more or less prolonged (1 to 3 ft.), flat and weak, longer than 

 the lax leaves; heads small and globular or oblong, dull dark brown, 

 the spikes often somewhat distinct, very short ; perigynium spreading, 

 about the length of, or somewhat longer than, the ovate-lanceolate 

 muticous brown scale." Cedar Hill, near Victoria ; Nanaimo ; and Mount 

 Mark, near Qualicum, Vancouver Island. (Macoun.) Alaska. (Ohamisso.) 



Var. gracilis, Olney; Macoun, Cat. IV., 120. 



In grassy thickets at Agassiz, B.C., May 10th, 1889. (Macoun.) 



(3192.) C. illota, Bailey, Mem. Ton-. Bot. Club, I., 15. 



C. Bonplandii, Kunth? var. minor, Boott, Proc. Acad. Phila. (1863), 77. 

 C. Bonplandii, var. angustifolia, W. Boott, Bot. Calif. II., 233. (1880.) 



" Distinguished from small forms of C. f estiva. Dew., as follows : 

 Very slender and usually tall (6 in. to 19 in.), the head very small 

 and globular or short-oblong (^ in. or less in diameter) ; perigynium 

 completely margin less, thick below, stipitate, nerved, entirely smooth 

 on the edges, the cylindrical and scarcely-cut beak projecting 

 beyond the obtuse or muticous dark brown scale. The perigynia arc 

 considerably like those of the C. canescens group. This species stands 

 midway between C. f estiva and C. heleonastes" By little pools on the 

 mountains north of Griffin Lake, B.C., at an altitude of 6000 feet, Aug. 

 1889. (Macoun.) 



(2551.) C. synchnocephala, Carey; Macoun, Cat. IV., 121. 



In damp spots on the flat land north of the Ferry, at Kamloops, 

 B.C., June 22nd, 1889. (Macoun.) 



(2554.) C. remota, Linn.; Macoun, Cat. IV., 122. 



Professor Bailey writes me that this species is of Very doubtful 

 occurrence in Canada, so we cancel it. 



