146 GEOLOGICAL STTRVEY OF CANADA. 



River, Keewatin. (J. M. Macoun.) Saskatchewan, and northward to 

 Bear Lake. (^Bailey.) Canada to Mackenzie Eiver. (Hooker, Fl.)^ 

 Methy Portage. (Richardson.) 



<2605.) C. acuta, Linn., Sp. PL, 1388, (1751) 



C. aperta, var. divaricata, Bailey, Bot. Gaz. IX., 119, in part, (1884.) 

 We have few specimens which we can refer here, but place them 

 mostly under the variety which follows. Sitka. (Rothr. AlasJc.) Lewes 

 Hiver, lat. 62°, KW.T. (Dawson.') 



Var. prolixa, Hornem. Plantel. Ed. IV. 



C.proKxa, Fries. Mant. III., 150, (1835.) 

 a aperta, Boott, Hook., Fl. II., 218, (1840.) 



Very abundant in low grounds, producing very good hay in numerous 

 places, especially at Cedar Hill, and Nanaimo. Specimens were col- 

 lected at Cedar Hill, Goldstream, Shawnigan Lake, Qualicum, Mount 

 Arrowsmith, and Sproat Lake, on the west coast of Vancouver Island. 

 {^Macoun.) In meadows at Victoria, Vancouver Island. (Fletcher.) 



(2606.) C. GLAucA, Scopoli, Fl. Germ. 455. 



Introduced on dry clay banks of the railway cutting just outside of 

 Windsor, ;N".S. (Macoun & Burgess.) On the border of a meadow, in 

 poor soil, London, Ont. (Burgess.) 



(2607.) C. torta, Boott; Tuckerraan, Enum. Meth. (1843.) 

 C. torta, var. composita,'Porter. 

 Borders of streams and in wet meadows in the maritime provinces. 

 Halifax, N.S. (Sommers, Gat.) Along a small stream at Truro, N.S. 

 (Macoun & Burgess.) Salmon Creek, and Gaspereaux Eiver; Petitco- 

 diac, KB. (Fowler, Cat.) 



(2608.) C. salina, Wahl, Fl. Lapp. 246, (1812.) 



a cuspidata, Wahl. Kongl Acad. Handl. XXIV., 164, (1802.) 

 a stncta. Hook. & Am. Bot. Beechey's Voy., 131, (1834.) 

 C. recta, Boott, Hook., Fl. II., 220, (1840.) 

 C. hiematolepis, Drej. Eevis. Crit. Car. 44, (1841.) 



Very abundant in salt marshes in almost every pai-t of Nova Scotia 

 rand around the Gulf of St. Lawrence. Newfoundland. (Reeks.) 

 ■Coast of Labrador and about Hudson Bay. (Bailey.) Louisburg, and 

 North Sydney, Cape Breton ; Truro, Annapolis, Yarmouth and Halifax, 

 N.S. (Macoun.) Salt marsh at Molus Bay, Kent Co., N.B. (Fowler, 

 •Cat.) Salt Lake and English Bay, Anticosti ; Cape Rosier, Fox Eiver, 



