384 GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA. 



spike very short (usually only a fourth or a third of an inch long), 

 closely sessile-inclined and inconspicuous ; lowest bract leaf-like, often 

 an inch or two long." On the sides of ravines, Truro, and Pirate's 

 Cove, Strait of Canso, KS. 1883. (Macoun & Burgess.} 



(2649.) C. varia, Muhl., in Wahl. Kongl. Acad. Hand!., XXIV., 159. 

 (1803.) Bailey, Mem. Torr. Bot. Club, I., 40. 



Eeferences under 0. Eminonsii, Dewey, Part IV., 159, belong here. 



(2650.) C. Novae-Anglise, Schw. ; Bailey, Mem. Torr. Bot. Club, 

 I., 44. 



C. Novse-Anglise, Macoun, Cat. IV., 160, in part. 



" Very slender, stoloniferous, the culms 6 to 8 inches high, about 

 the length of the very narrow loose leaves; staminate spike quite 

 distinct, erect and prominent, 3 to 8 lines long, mostly minutely 

 peduncled, exceedingly narrow (about half a line broad) ; pistillate 

 spikes usually two, the upper near the base of the staminate spike, the 

 lower from J to 1 inch removed and short-stalked and subtended by a 

 bract which nearly or quite equals the culm, both rather loosely three 

 to six-flowered ; radical spikes none ; perigynium very narrow, often 

 nearly oblanceolate, very thinly hairy, the sharp beak prominent; 

 stigmas often two." In damp woods, Point Pleasant, Halifax, N.S. 

 (Burgess & Macoun.) Grassy places at Cove Head and Brackley 

 Point, Prince Edward Island. (Macoun.') Woods near St. Martin, 

 N.B. 1888. (Brittain.) 



(3198.) C. deflexa, Hornemann; Bailey, Mem. Torr. Bot. Club, 

 I, 41. 



C. Nwse-Anglix, Macoun, Cat. IV, 160, in part. 



" Very low, much tufted ; culms from 1 to 6 inches long, setaceous 

 more or less curved or spreading, little exceeding or shorter than the 

 narrow leaves ; staminate spike exceedingly minute and nearly always 

 invisible in the head; pistillate spikes two or three, two to five- 

 flowered, green or green-and-brown, all aggregated into a small head, 

 the lowest one always more or less short-peduncled and subtended by 

 a leafy bract, a half inch or less long ; radical spikes very few or none; 

 perigynium very small, much contracted below, sparsely hairy or 

 nearly smooth, the flat beak exceedingly short." On sandy or rocky 

 places near water, Gasp Peninsula, Q. (Macoun.) Portage, Kent 

 Co., N.B. (Brittain.) 



