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Pacific, but is always found in cool situations. Cumberland Islands, 

 Arctic coast. {Parry.) Newfoundland. (Cormack.') Nain, coast of 

 Labrador.. {E. Bell.) Upper Gaspereau, Queen's Co., N.B. (Wetmore.) 

 Salt Lake, Anticosti. {Macoun.) Mount Albert, Gasp^, Q. {Macoun. 

 Porter.) Thunder Eiver, Q. (St. Cyr.) Lake Mistassini, N.B.T. (J.M. 

 Macoun.) Common along the north shore of Lake Superior and west- 

 ward to Eainy Lake, and the Lake of the "Woods ; abundant in the 

 Eocky Mountains, from Canmore west to Hector; common along 

 small streams in tiie mountainous parts of Yancouver Island. [Macoun.) 

 Goose Creek [Mountains, 5,800 feet alt.. Cariboo, B.C. (Bowman.) 

 Port Etches, Alaska. (^Barclay.) Sitka, Ounalashka. and Kotzebue 

 Sound. (Bothr. Alask.) Fort Wrangel, Alaska. (Meehan.) North 

 West America, from the Columbia to Kotzebue Sound. (Hooker, Fl.) 

 Greenland. (Lange.) 



Var. melanocarpa, B. Meyer. 



L.parmflora, var. melanocarpa, Gray, Man. Ed. V., 536. 

 Juncus melanocarpus, Michx., Fl. I., 190 ; Pursh, Fl. I., 238. 



This form is easily distinguished from the pi-eceding by its dark 

 brown capsules, and the more contracted habit of the inflorescence. 

 Labrador. (Br. Morrison.) St. John, N.B. (Millman.) Shore of Lake 

 Superior, at the Pic, and along Current Eiver, Thunder Bay. (Macoun.) 

 ObaLake, Ont. ; Hayes Eiver, and west coast of Hudson Bay. (R. Bell.) 

 On the higher Eocky Mountains, in the Bow Eiver Pass, and north- 

 ward to the Peace Eiver Pass, laf. 56°, and west to Fort MoLeod, lat. 

 55°, B.C. (Macoun.) Camp Akamina, 49th parallel. South Kootanie 

 Pass, and western summit of the North Kootanie Pass, Eocky Moun- 

 tains ; Klootch-oot-a Lake, B.C. ; Lake Lindeman, lat. 60°, and hills 

 north of Finlayson Lake, lat. 61° 40". (Dawson.) Kotzebue Sound- 

 (Beechy.) Throughout the wooded country to the prairies of the Eocky 

 Mountains. (Hooker, Fl.) Greenland. (Lange.) 



Var. subcongesta, Watson, Bot. Calif. II., 202. 



Not uncommon in the mountains near lat. 49°. Western summit of 

 North Kootanie Pass, and in the South Kootanie Pass, Eocky Moun- 

 tains. (Dawson.) A form between this and var. parviflora has been 

 gathered at Golden City, in the Columbia Valley. The capsules and 

 sepals are very light colored, and approach the west coast form of the 

 above variety. (Macoun.) 



(2390.) L. divaricata, Watson, Proced. Am. Acad. XIV., 302. 



Abundant in deep shade along the mountain brooks at Goldstream, 

 Vancouver Island, and probably common, though overlooked. (Macoun. ) 



