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(254Y.) C. stenophylla, Vahl. (1803); Hook., Fl. II., 211. 

 C. dunuscula, C. A. Meyer, Cyp. Nov., 214, (1831.) 

 Not uncommon throughout the prairie region, from Portage la 

 Prairie westward to Kananaskis Station in the Eocky Mountains. 

 •{Macoun.) Prairie west of Turtle Mountain, Man. {Dawson.) Carletoa 

 House, on the Saskatchewan ; Eocky. Mountains. (Hooker, FL) 



<2548.) C. chordorhiza, Ehrh.; Hook., Fl. II., 211. 



C.fulvicoma. Dew. Sill. Journ. XXIX., 249, (1836) ; Hook., FL II., 211. 

 Peat bogs and marshes, generally northward. Shippegan, ^N'.B. 

 '{May.) Lakeville, Carleton Co., KB. {Brittain.) Salt Lake, and 

 Ellis Bay, Anticosti; marsh at the mouth of the Kaministiqua, on the 

 left bank. {Macoun.) Marshes, London, Ont. {Burgess. Millman.) 

 Lake Mistassini, N.E.T. {J. M. Macoun.) Peat marsh. Telegraph 

 Ti-ail, lat. 54°, B.C. {Macoun.) Hudson Bay to Cumberland House ; 

 Lake Winnipeg, Norway House and Cumberland House, Saskatchewan 

 Eiver. {Sooker, Fl.) 



t t Spikelets male at bottom. 



'(2549.) C. festlva, Dew. Sill. Journ. XXIX., 246, (1836); Hook., 

 FI. II., 215. 



C. oreades, C. A. Meyer, Bull. Acad. Brux. IX., 248, (1842). 

 Very abundant from the prairie region westward to the Pacific 

 coast, in thickets and meadows. "White Mud Eiver, 49th parallel : 

 Michel Creek, Crow Nest Pass, Eocky Mountains. {Dawson.) In 

 coulees and willow clumps. Cypress and Eagle Hills, and northward to 

 Lesser Slave Lake ; common in damp meadows and thickets, from 

 Morley through the Eocky and Selkirk mountains, and northward in 

 British Columbia; very abundant in meadows and thickets throughout 

 Vancouver Island. {Macoun.) Cumberland House to Bear Lake ; 

 Eocky Mountains. {Hooker, FL) Fi-aser Eiver, near Tale, B.C. 

 {Fletcher.) Lake Lindeman, lat. 59°, B.C. {Dawson.) Shuswap Lake, 

 JB.C. {Prof. Fowler.) Greenland. {Lange.) 



Vai-. Haydeniana, W. Boott, Bot. Calif II., 234, (1880.) 



a Haydeniana, Olney, Bot King's Exp. V., 364, (1871.) 

 On the summits of the higher Eocky Mountains, from Castle Mt. to 

 Kicking Horse Lake. {Macoun.) 



Var. gracilis, Olney, Proced. Am. Acad., 40*7, (1872.) 



On the beds of " snow slides" at the summit of the Selkirk Moun- 



