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Massassagua Point, near Belleville ; and on dry rocks, Tudor, North 

 Hastingp, Ont., and Livingstone Point, Lake Nipigon, Ont. (Macoun.} 

 "Woods near London, Ont. (Burgess. Millman.) Veiy abundant on 

 the dry prairie west of Winnipeg, at Brandon, File Hillf?, Long Lake^ 

 Moose Jaw Greek, Old Wives Lakes, and westward to the Eocky 

 Mountains. {Macoun.) Oba Lake, Ont. ; and Nelson Eiver, Keewatin. 

 (JS. Bell.) Turtle Mountain, Man., and South Antler Creek, Assiniboia. 

 (Burgess.) Stony Mountain, Man. (Frof. Fowler.) 



Var. tenera, Boott, 111. 120. 



C. tenera, Olney, Car. Bor. Am. (ined.) 



This form is distinguished by its weak culm, longer leaves, much 

 smaller spikelets and its different habit. Its usual habitat is damp- 

 meadows, where it grows in large clumps. It is distinguished from 

 var. aperta by its erect culms and smaller spikelets. Kent Co., N.B. y 

 rather rare. (Fowler, Cat) Windsor, and Pictou, N.S. (Macoun.) 

 Casselman, and Billing's Bridge, near Ottawa. (Fletcher, FL Ott.)- 

 Port Colborne, Lake Erie. (MeGill Coll. Serb.) Common in wet. 

 meadows in central Ontario, extending westwai-d to Port Arthur, and 

 Fort William, Thunder Bay, Lake Superior. (Macoun.) Observation^ 

 Point, Lake Winnipeg. (J. M. Macoun.) Abundant in damp soil, from: 

 Winnipeg westward to Manitoba House, Lake Manitoba, Brandon, 

 File Hills, and the Elbow of the South Saskatchewan. (Macoun.y 

 Lake Winnipeg. (Hooker, FL) 



Yar. festucacea, Boott, 111. 120. 



Cfestucacea, Willd. (1805) ; Pursh, Fl. I., 38 ; Hook., Fl. 11., 215. 



Heads larger than the preceding, usually more scattered, slightly 

 tapering to the base ; perigynia long-beaked, and slightly spreading. 

 St. John, and Digdeguash, N.B. (Fowler, Cat.) In meadows at Bad- 

 deck, Cape Breton. (Macoun. Burgess.) Vicinity of Ottawa. (Fletcher,. 

 Fl. Ott.) Banks of the Eivi^re Eouge, at Bevin's Lake, Argentcuil 

 Co., Q. (X>' Urban.) Eather common in low wet meadows at Belle- 

 ville, and westward through Ontario to Thunder Bay, Lake Superior. 

 (Macoun.) Woodstock, Ont. (Millman.) London, and Parry Sound^ 

 Ont. (Burgess.) 



Var. foenea, Torrey, Cyp. 395, (1836.) 



C.foenea, Willd. Enum. PI. Hort. Berol. 957, (1809.) 



C. straminea, var. chlorostachys, Boeckeler, Linnsea XXXIX., 118, (1875.) 



We have no Canadian specimens of this variety except one from 

 Olney, which he obtained from Prof. Fowler, of Queen's College, King- 

 ston, Ont., in 1870, collected in Kent Co., New Brunswick. 



