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(2561.) C. echinata, Murray, Prodr. Goett. 76, (1770.) 



C. stelMata, Good., 'Linn. Trans. II., 144,(1792); Hook., Fl. IL, 214; 

 Macoun, Cat. No. 2066. 



C. stellvlata, var. sterilis, Torr. Bot. N. York, II., 380, (1843.) 



C. sterilis, W. Boott, Bot. Calif. II., 236, (1880.) 

 Culms stiff; spikes large, all contiguous or nearly so; perigynium 

 large, much attenuated above. (Bailey.) Apparently commonest 

 eastward. Only our own specimens and what have been named 

 C. sterilis, are referred to the species. All others go with the second 

 variety. Topsail, Newfoundland. (B. Bell.) Petticodiac, N.B. (Brit- 

 tain.) Swamps at Truro, and Yarmouth, N.S. (Macoun.) Glenelg, 

 <Tuysboro, N.S. (Faribault.) St. Charles Islands, Mingan, and Tadou- 

 eac, Q. (St. Cyr.) Eivi^re do Brig, Anticosti ; Gasp6 Basin, and 

 L'anse 4. Valon, Gasp^, Q. ; Livingston Point, Lake jSTipigon, and 

 Lake Maria, Nipigon Eiver, Ont. (Macoun.) Swampy river flat, 

 London, Ont. (Burgess, Millman.) Not uncommon in marshes at 

 MorVey and westward through the Eocky and Selkirk mountains, B.C. ; 

 borders of marshes at Goldstream, Alberni, and Mount Mark, near 

 Qualicum, Vancouver Island. (Macoun.) 



Yar. conferta, Bailey, Oarex, Cat. (1884.) 



G. stellvlata, var. conferta, Chapm. Flora, 534, (1860.) 



Bogs at the head of the North West Arm, near Halifax, N.S. 

 (Macoun & Burgess.) Along the coast from Newfoundland southward 

 to Florida. (Za Pylaie.) Differs fi-om the species in the oblong den- 

 sely flowered, and more spreading spikes, and recurved perigynium. 

 (Bailey.) 



Yar. microstachys, Boeckeler, Linneea. XXXIX., 125, (1875.) 



C. sdrpoides, Sohkuhr,Riedgr. Nacbtr. 19, (1805) ; Pursh, Fl. I., 37. 



C. steriUs, Willd. ; Pursh, Fl. I., 34, (1814.) 



C. sterilis, vars. /?. & y., Torr. Cyp., 392, (1836.) 



C. stellulala, vars. sdrpoides & angustata. Gray, Man. Ed. Y., 579, (1868) ; 



Macoun, Cat. No. 2066 vars. 

 C. echinata var. angustata, Bailey, Carex, Cat. (1884.) 



More slender ; spikes small and more scattered ; perigynium smaller 

 and less conspicuously beaked. (Bailey.) Yery abundant in swamps 

 and marshes throughout the eastern provinces. Halifax, N.S. (8om- 

 mers, Gat.) Petitcodiac ; common in Kent Co., at Bass Eiver ; also 

 Carleton Co., N.B. (Fowler, Gat.) Common in swamps at Truro, 

 N.S. ; and along the Ste. Anne des Monts Eiver, Gasp^, Q. (Macoun.) 

 Mingan, and Pentecost rivers, Q. (St. Gyr.) Bogs and marshes, com- 

 mon near Ottawa. (Fletcher, Fl. Ott.) Yeiy common around Pres- 



