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III. Uppermost spikelet androgynous, male at base; the others female^ 



* Stigmas II. 



(2574.) C. bicolor, Allioni, Fl. Ped. II., 267 ; Hook., Fl. II., 216. 



Greenland, and Labrador. {Hooker, Fl.) Greenland. (Lange.) We- 

 have Eocky Mountain specimens of 0. aurea, which have black scales- 

 with a white centre, which approach this, but the beak of the fruit, 

 is that of the latter species. 



* * Stigmas III. 



(2575.) C. Buxbaumii, Wahl. Kongl. Acad. Handl. X3^IV., 163,. 

 (1802.) 



C. canescens, Hook., Fl. IT., 216, (1840.) 

 Bogs and beSver meadows ; not uncommon from the Atlantic to the- 

 Paciflc. Newfoundland. (Befks.) Bog at the head of the North 

 West Arm, Halifax, N.S. ; bogs at Louisburg, Cape Breton. (Macoun.) 

 Eestigouche, near the mouth of the Upsalquitch ; Lily Lake, N.B. 

 (J?bw/er, Caf.) Near St. John, N.B. (Burgess.) Salt Lake, and Jupiter 

 Eiver, Anticosti; Point Fame, and Matane, Gasp^ coast, Q. (Macoun.) 

 Bogs, vicinity of Ottawa. (Fletcher, Fl. Oft.) Beaver meadow, bor- 

 der of Hooper's Lake, Tudor, Hastings Co. ; Eed Bay, Lake Huron ;. 

 Sturgeon Lake, Nipigon Eiver ; en rocks at the head of the rapid 

 Current Eiver, Port Arthur, and on marshy ground at Pic Eiver, and 

 Otter Head, east coast Lake Superior. (Macoun.) Bogs, near King- 

 ston, Ont. (Prof. Fowler.) Lake Mistassini, N.E.T. (J. M. Macoun.) 

 In mountain meadows, and bogs from Morley westward through the- 

 Eocky Mountains to Eoger's Pass, Selkirk Mountains ; shores of Horn© 

 Lake, near Qualicum, Vancouver island. (Macoun.) Canada to Cum- 

 berland House, on the Saskatchewan; Lake Winnipeg, near Norway 

 House; Observatory Inlet, and Sitka. (Hooker, Fl.) Sitka. (Mothr. 

 Alask.) 



(2576.) C. Cmelini, Hook., Bot. Eeechy's Yoy., 118, (1834);. 

 Hook., Fl. II., 216. 

 Oregon to Alaska. (Bailey.) North West coast, and Kotzebuo- 

 Sound. (Hooker, Fl.) Sitka, Ounalashka, and Kotzebue Sound. (Bothr. 

 Alask.) Port Etches, Alaska. (Barclay. Specimen sent from British 

 Museum.) 



(2577.) C. Mertensii, Prescott, (1833); Hook., Fl. II., 217. 

 C. Columbiana, Dew. Sill. Journ. XXX., 62, (1836.) 

 One of the finest carices we have, and even worthy of a place in our- 



