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"Grand Etang and Madeline Eiver, Gasp^ coast, Q. (Macoun.) Mouth 

 of Saguenay Eiver, Q. (Pringle.) Ouatchechou, Q. (St. Cyr.) Hud- 

 son Bay, Labrador, and Kotzebue Sound. (Hooker, Fl.) 



Var. mutica, Wahl. Fl. Lapp. 246, (1812. t 



C. lanceata, Dew. Sill. Journ. XXIX., 249, (1836.) 

 C. reducta, Drej. Eevis. Crit. Car. 46, (184].) 

 G salina, var. minor, Boott, 111. 160, in part. 

 C. salina, var. /3., Boott, Hook., Fl. II., 219, (1840.) 

 Cumberland House, on the Saskatchewan, and Hudson Bay. 

 (^Hooker, FL) Coast of Greenland. (Lange.') 



Var. ? robusta, Bailey, Coult. Bot. Gaz. XIII., 87. 



Taller and coarser than the species (two to three feet high), the 

 culm spongy at the base; leaves soft; bracts very leafy, surpassing 

 the culm ; spikes heavy, short and thick (usually an iach or less long, 

 and nearly half an inch thick), mostly dense and truncate at the base, 

 somewhat aggregated, the lower short stalked ; scales ranging from 

 lanceolate and acute to ovate and obtuse, brown with a white mid- 

 nerve, longer than the thinner nerveless perigynium. All the peri- 

 gynia are empty. (^Bailey.) The specimens were growing in large 

 patches between tides in the bed of Qualicum Eiver, Vancouver Island 

 They were generally covered with water to the height of a foot or more 

 at high tide. I cannot believe that this is a form of G. salina, as it is 

 quite distinct from that species in general appearance, but leave it 

 with Prof. Bailey to settle it. CoUeated July 29, 1887. (Macoun.) 



Since the ^bove was in type, I have received further information 

 regarding this form from Mr. Arthur Bennett, F.L.S., Croydon, Eng-^ 

 land. The specimens sent to him were forwarded to Kew, and were 

 examined by Mr. C. B. Clarke, who could not match them in Kew 

 herbarium, but suggested G. pulla. Good., as a possibility. Later 

 examinations seem to convince Mr. Clarke that this is G. physocarpa, 

 Presl, Eeliq. Haenk. I., 205. Mr. Bennett thinks, on the other hand, 

 that if Kunth represents correctly Presl's plant, he cannot agree with 

 him, and says, "if this is not 0. physocarpa, then it is a new 

 species so far as we have material at Kew to go upon, for which I pro- 

 pose the name G. Macounii (non Dewey Sill. Journ.) characterized by 

 its extremely (almost wanting) short beak to the perigynia with a 

 smaller base, semi-inflated nerved fruits much shorter than the 

 glumes." 



(2609.) C. ambusta, Boott, 111. 64. 



C. salina, var. ambusta, Bailey, Carex, Cat. (1884.) 

 UngavaBay, North Labrador; northern British Columbia; Sitka, 



