252 GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OP CANADA. 



(2965.) E. hyemale, Linn. ; Hook. Fl. IL, 270 in part. 



Quite common throughout the northern forests, and westward through 

 the mountains to the Pacific. Eather rare at Bass Eiver ; also at 

 Drummond, Victoria Co., IST.B. (Fowler's Oat.) Portage, Kent Co. ; 

 Bairdsville and Simmonds, Carleton Co., N.B. (Brittain.) Eivi^re 

 de Bi'ig, and Jupiter Eiver, Anticosti ; Brackley Point, and elsewhere 

 on P. E. I. ; common along the Gasp6 coast, Q. (^Macoun.) Lac St. 

 Joseph, Portneuf Co., Q. (St. Gyr.) Yicinity of Ottawa. (^Fletcher Fl. 

 Ott.) Gravelly banks, London, Ont. (Burgess.) Queen Charlotte 

 Islands. (Dawson.) 



(2966.) E. ramosissimum, Desf. 



"We refer to this species forms intermediate between F. hyemale and 

 F. variegatum but which differ from the first in having a short black 

 sheath with soft fragile teeth which are united in groups by thin white 

 membranous margins, and tipped with a long soft point, from the 

 latter by the greater number of ridges, greater size and longer teeth. 

 Speko's Point, Lake Nepigon, Ont. , Shawnagin Lake, Vancouver 

 Island. (Macoun.) 



(296*7.) E. variegatum, Schleicher, Hook. Fl. IL, 270. 



In sand by rivers and lakes ; not rare. Kear Andover, N.B. ; rare 

 (Brittain.) Eivi^re de Brig, and Salt Lake, Anticosti, and at Gasp^ 

 Basin, Q. (Macoun.) Border of the Montmorency Eiver at Beau- 

 port, Q. (St. Gyr.) Wet places, Niagara Falls. (Burgess.) Shore 

 of Lake Ontario, at Presqu'Ile Point, near Brighton ; sands. Lake 

 Nepigon; Bed Deer Eiver, Lat. 53°, Man. ; along the Bow Eiver, in 

 sand and westward through the Eocky Mountains to the Columbia at 

 Donald, in sand along Shuswap Lake, and on the Indian Eeservation at 

 Kamloops, B.C. ; also along the shores of Home and Cameron lakes,Van- 

 couver Island. (Macoun.) Elk Eiver, Kootanie Valley ; along the 

 Upper Liard Eiver, N.W.T. (Dawson.) Frequent in Canada and 

 thence to the Saskatchewan and Arctic Sea. (Hooker Fl.) Green- 

 land. (Bosenvinge). Bai-tlett Bay, Alaska. (Meehan.) 



(2968.) E. scirpoides, Michx. Fl. IL, 281. 



E. variegatum var. p. Hook. Fl. II., 270. 



Common on the slopes of cool ravines and in swampy woods north- 

 ward. Nottingham Island, Hudson Strait. (E. Bell.) Pictou, N.S. 

 (McKay.) Common about Eiver Charlo and Point Le Nim, N.B. 

 (Fowler's Gal.) Wet places at Truro, N.S. ; Brackley Point and other 



