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(Macoun.) Low grounds around Prescott, Ont. (Billings.) Vicinity 

 of Hamilton, Ont. (JJogie.) Swamps, London, Ont. (Burgess. Millman.} 

 Owen Sound, Ont. ; common around Lake Superior and up the Nipigon 

 Eiver; swamps at Port Arthur, and westward through the forest coun- 

 try and prairie to Brandon, Man. (Macoun.) Michipicotin Eiver, Ont. 

 (B. Bell.) Lake Mistassini, IST.E.T. (J. M. Macoun.) Common in 

 swamps and bogs from Morley westward through the Eocky Moun- 

 tains, to the summit of the Selkirk Mountains, B.C. ; . boggy places at 

 Nanaimo and on Mount Mark, Vancouver Island. (Macoun.) Swamp 

 near Victoria, Vancouver Island. (Fletcher.) Hudson Bay to Norway 

 House, north of Lake Winnipeg. (Hooker, Fl.) 



(2518.) C. SCirpoidea, Michx., Fl. L, lYl, (1803) ; Pursh, PI. I., 

 34; Hook., PI. IL, 208. 



C. Michauxii, Schwein. An. Tab. I., 64, (1823.) 



C. WormskioldiaTia, Schwein. & Torr. I., 294, (1824.) 



C. scirpina, Tuckerman, Enum. Math. 8, (1843.) 

 Cold boggy places or mountain summits. Summit of Mount Albert^ 

 Shickshock Mountains, Gasp^, Q. (Porter.) Bog at Sydney Mine, 

 Cape Breton ; Salt Lake, and Jupiter Eiver, Anticosti ; Eed, and Chicken 

 bays, Lake Huron, Ont. (Macoun.) Swamp between Badger Creek 

 and Turtle Mountain, Man. (Dawson. Burgess.) Severn Lake, Kee- 

 watin ; Souris Plain, Man. (J. M. Macoun.) G-riswold, Man. (Bur- 

 man.) Not uncommon on the prairies, from Brandon north-westward 

 to Edmonton ; abundant in boggy meadows, from Morley westward 

 through the Eocky, and Selkirk mountains, B.C. ; summit of Mount 

 Arrowsmith, alt. 5,500 feet, Vancouver Island. (Macoun.) Fort Nor- 

 man, Mackenzie Eiver; Eocky Mountains. (Hooker, Fl.) Arctic 

 sea-coast. (Richardson.) Greenland. (Lange.) 



(2519.) C. obtusata, Liljeblad, Kongl. Acad. Handl. (1793) ; Hook., 

 Fl. IL, 209. 



C. affinis, B. Br. Eich. App. Frankl. Narr., 763, (1823) ; Hook., Fl. 



II., 209. 

 C. JRackkma, Dew. Sill. Journ. XXIX., 250, (1836.) 

 C. obesa, var- monostachya, Boeckeler, Linnsea XLI., 185- 



Abundant in the prairie region on gravelly slopes, and amongst the 

 foot-hills. Newfoundland. (Reeks.) Near Moose Mountain Creek, 

 Soiu-is Plain, Assiniboia. (J. M. Macoun.) Port Qu'Appelle, Assini- 

 boia. (Fletcher.) Quite common on dry slopes, from Portage la 

 Prairie westward to the Eocky Mountains, and northward throughout 

 the Saskatchewan region ; on dry gravelly slopes in the foot-hills at 

 Morley, and westward to Canmore, in the Eocky Mountains ; Bridge 



