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Yar. pungens, Bailey, Mem. Torr.Bot. Club, I., 7. 

 C. vesicaria, var. major, Macoun, Cat. IV., 171, in part. 



u Slender ; spikes narrowly cylindrical (the size of a pencil) one to 

 two inches long, usually dark colored ; scales firm, very sharp-pointed, 

 half or a third as long as the the perigynium." Wet places at Cowichan, 

 Nanaimo and Cameron Lake, Vancouver Island, 1887; common in 

 swamps at Port Hammond, Agassiz, and eastward to Craigellachie, 

 Eagle Eiver, B.C. (Macoun.) 



(2684.) C. lurida, Wahl.; Bailey, Mem. Torr. Bot. Club, I., 10. 

 Eeferences under C. tentaculata, Muhl., Part IV., 173, belong here. 



(2687.) P. Pseudo-Cyperus, Linn., var. Americana, Hochst. ; 

 Bailey, Mem. Torr. Bot. Club, 1 , 54. 



Keferences under C. Pseudo-Cyperus, var. comosa, W. Boott, Part IV., 

 174, belong here. 



674. PANICUM. 



(3201.) P. nitidum, Lam., var. barbulatum, Michx. 



Not uncommon at Kamloops and along the shores of Shuswap Lake, 

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



676. SPARTINA. 



(2713.) S. gracilis, Trin.; Macoun, Cat. IV., 182. 



Common in saline, boggy places at and around Kamloops, B.C., 1887. 

 (Macoun.) 



684. ALOPECURUS. 



(2730.) A. geniculatus, Linn., var. caespitosus, Scribner, MS. 



A. Macounii, Vasey, Macoun, Cat. IV., 189 =J. Howellii and A. saccatus, 

 Vasey. 



"Culms low (2 to 6 in.), erect, panicles J to 1 in. long, uppear sheaths 

 sometimes inflated." 



" The spikelets are the same as in A. geniculatus, Linn. Perhaps a 

 couplo of sub-varieties could be made on the varying length of the 

 leaves, but we do not carry matters that far in this country." (Scribner.) 

 On the old waggon road, at the first tunnel, as it rounds the bluff at 



