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Lake Supedor, and in swamps at Port Arthur, Thunder Bay ; Nipigon 

 Eiver, Lake Superior. {Macoun.) Lake Mistassini, N.B.T. (J. M. 

 Macoun.) Mossy bog, London, Ont. (Burgess. Millman.) Abundant 

 in marshes at Swan Lake House, and around the Porcupine Mountain, 

 Man. ; Beaver Creek, in the Selkirk Mountains, B.C. ; swamps near 

 McLeod's Lake, northern British Columbia. (Macoun.) Vancouver 

 city, Burrard Inlet,' B.C. (^Prof. Fowler.) It is .probable that some 

 •of the above references belong to the next vai'iety, as we have not 

 -seen the specimens. 



Var. alpicola, Wahl. 



C. gphierostycha, Dew. Sill. Journ. XLIX., 44, (1845.) 



C. canescens, var. vitilis, Macoun Cat. No. 1968, in part, (1878.) 



Smaller than the species (seldom over a foot high), the culm stiff in 

 most alpine forms, more or less slender in the subalpine forms ; spikes 

 small and globular, or nearly so, well defined brown or tawny. Alpine 

 -or subalpine, across the continent. (Bailey.) Marshes at Truro, and 

 Halifax, N.S. (Burgess & Macoun.) Along the Gasp^ coast, and up 

 the Ste. Anne des Monts Eiver, and on Mount Albert, Shickshock 

 Mountains, Q. ; Partridge Lake, North Hastings, and in a swamp near 

 Bellville, Ont. (Macoun.) 



(2557.) C. arcta, Boott, 111., 155, t. 497. 



C. canescens, var. polystachya, Boott. ; Bich. Journ. II., 344. 

 C. Kunzd, Olney, Proced. Am. Acad., 407, (1872.) 



Swamps and ditches; extending from New Brunswick westward to 

 Yancouver Island. Petitcodiac, Hampton, Portage, and Moss Glen, 

 King's Co., N.B. (Brittain.) Gatineau Point, near Hull, Q. (Fletcher, 

 Fl. Ott.) Wet shore of Lake Champlain, Q. (Pringle.) Abundant 

 -on Long Portage, Nipigon Eiver; also on a Portage near Eainy Lake, 

 Dawson route ; very abundant in ditches and wet meadows at Victoria, 

 and Nanaimo, Vancouver Island. (Macoun ) Cedar Hill, near Victoria, 

 Vancouver Island. (Fletcher.) Burrard Inlet, at Vancouver city, B.C. 

 (Prof. Fowler.) Eainy Lake and Lake of the Woods. (Richardson.) 



<2558.) C. Deweyana, Schweinitz, An. Tab. (1823) ; Hook., Fl. 

 II., 213. 



C. remota, Rich. App. Frankl. Exp. (1823) ; Pursh, Fl. I., 37. 

 In dry grassy thickets, abundant from the Atlantic westward- 

 Point Pleasant, near Halifax ; and Windsor, N.S. (Macoun.) Bass 

 "Eiver ; Petitcodiac ; Gaspereau Eiver, and Salmon River ; Aroostook 

 Falls, N.B. (Fowler, Cat.) Tobique Eiver, N.B. (Hay.) Thickets 

 along the Jupiter Eiver, Anticosti ; Eiver Ste. Anne des Monts, Gasp^ 



