106 QEOLOGICAI, SURVEY OF CANADA. 



Barrow and the Arctic coast. (Botkr. Alask.) Canada to the Eocky 

 Mountains, and to the Arctic sea-shore and islands. (Hooker, Fl.) 

 Between Fort Churchill and York Factory. (Br. Bae.) Port Kennedy, 

 lat. 72°. (Dr. Walker.) Nottingham, and Digge's islands, Hudson 

 Strait. (B. Bell.) 



Yar. angustifolium, Gray, Man. Ed. V., 566. 



E. angustifolium, Eoth. ; Pursh, Fl. I., 58 ; Hook., Fl. II., 231. 



Doubtless many of the references under var. latifolium belong here, 

 but we had no means of determining, and so placed them all under the 

 general head. Campbellton, N.B. (Chalmers.') North Sydney, Cape 

 Breton, and Yarmouth, N.S. ; marshes, Mount Albert, Gasp^, Q. ; bogs, 

 Salt Lake, Anticosti ; peaty swamps, near Belleville, Ont. ; Eed Eock, 

 Lake Superior. (Macoun.) Kemptville, Ont. (Porter.) Greenland. 

 (Lange.) 



(2494.) E. gracile, Koch.; Hook., Fl. IL, 23L 

 E. angustifolium, Torr. Bot. N. York, II., 359. 

 Peat and other bogs, common eastward. Newfoimdland. (Cormack.) 

 Bogs, Windsor, and Halifax, N.S. (Sommers, Cat.) Goldenville, Guys- 

 boro Co., N.S. (Faribault.) Dartmouth, N.S. (McGill Coll. Herb.) 

 Eather common at Bass Eiver ; Lancaster, N.B. (FovMr, Cat.) Dow's 

 swamp and other places, Ottawa; uncommon. (Fletcher, Fl. Ott.) 

 Dr. Jessup's swamp and northward from Prescott, Ont. (Billings.) 

 Loboro Lake, Ont. (Prof . Fowler.) Swamp, a little east of Belleville, 

 Ont. ; Big Swamp, Murray, and in marshy meadows near Trenton, 

 Northumberland Co. ; Chicken Bay, shore of Lake Huron, and marshy 

 spots, Point Aux Pins, Lake Superior. (Macoun.) Chm-chill Eiver, 

 and York Factoi-y, Hudson Bay. Cape Chudleigh, Hudson Strait. 

 (B. Bell.) Saskatchewan to the Arctic sea. (Hooker, Fl.) Port 

 Wrangel, Alaska. (Meehan.) 



Yar. paucinervium, Engelm. ; Gray, Man. Ed. Y., 566. 

 Mossy bog near London, Ont. (Millman. Burgess.) 



668. RHYNCHOSPORA, Vahl. (BEAK-RUSH.) 



(2495.) R. fusca, Eoem. & Schultes, Syst. II., 81. 



R. alba, p., fusca, Pursh, Fl. I., 49. 

 Schcenus fuscus, Linn-, Sp. II., 1664. 

 Peat bogs and beaver meadows. Peat bogs. North Sydney, Cape 

 Breton. (Macoun & Burgess.) Near Hampton, N.B. (Fowler, Cat.) 



