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or round-ovate, or ovate-oblong, thin but firm in texture, bearing 

 a nerve upon either angle but otherwise nerveless or sometimes 

 bearing a few very faint nerves near the base, rounded into a very 

 short and terete beak which is either entire or somewhat erose ; 

 pistillate scales brown, lance-ovate, ending in a sharp whitish tip 

 which nearly or quite equals the perlgynium. Richibucto and 

 Lake Mistassin, Canada, Michaiix ; Island in the Saguenay, near 

 Lake St. John, Lower Canada, A, H. Smith ; Rothsay, New 

 Brunswick, Fozvler ; Drury's Cove, St. John's, N. B. Hb. Gray,; 

 Newfoundland, La Pylaie [Hb. Gray.) ; outlet of Moosehead 

 Lake, Maine, G E. & A. H. Smith. 



Very young specimens from Kennebeckasis, N. B., coll. by 

 Fowler and distributed by Olney (Exsicc. fasc. v. No. i8) as 

 '' form. mtJtory'' cannot be determined, but they do not appear to 

 belong here. The specimens distributed under this number were 

 mixed. (See var. obtusa), 



^ Var. OBTUSA. 



Culm mostly shorter and even more slender; pistillate spikes 

 mucii smaller (from ^ in. long to smaller and globular), closely 

 sessile ; pistillate scale very obtuse, little, if any more than half 



the length of the perlgynium. Marguerite River, Lower Canada, 

 A. 77. Smith, In my own collection, Olney's No. i8 of fasc. v, 

 from Kennebeckasis, N. B., Fowler^ contains one specimen of this 

 variety. This is evidently an admixture from Smith's collection, as 

 Olney had Smith's plants. In Herb. Gray, this admixture does 

 not occur in Olney's set. 



sj Var. MAJOR. 



C, miliaris^ van, Olney. Exsicc. v. No. i6 (1871), v. s. 



Much stouter (often fully two feet high), the culm thick and 

 very sharply angled; leaves stout and canaliculate or involute; 

 staminate spikes short-stalked ; pistillate spikes one to five, mostly 

 short-oblong, but often cylindrical (varying from ^ in. to i ^ in. 

 long), stout and very dark and dull brown, the lower one or two 

 short-peduncled ; scale varying from wholly obtuse to muticous. 



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Ungava Bay, N. Labra- 



dor, 1884, Turner \ Outlet of Moosehead Lake, Porter, This 

 plant lacks entirely the slender and graceful habit of C fniliaris, 

 but I can detect no other constant gharacters of separation. 



