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(2545.) C. Hoodii, Boott; Bailey, Mem. Ton-. Bot. Club, I., 14; 

 Macoun, Cat. IV., 119. 



C. muricata, Linn., var. confixa, Bailey ; Macoun, Cat. IV., 119. 



In thickets at Agassiz, B.C., May 14th, 1889. (Macoun.) 



(2549.) C. festiva, Dew., var. pachystachya, Bailey, Mem. Toit. 

 Bot. Club, I., 51. 



C-f estiva, Dew., var. gracilis, Macoun, Cat. IV., 120, in part. 



"Culm more or less prolonged (1 to 3 ft.), flat and weak, longer than 

 the lax leaves ; heads small and globular or oblong, dull dark brown, 

 the spikes often somewhat distinct, very short ; perigynium spreading, 

 about the length of, or somewhat longer than, the ovate-lanceolate 

 muticous brown scale." Cedar Hill, near Victoria; Nanaimo ; and Mount 

 Mark, near Qualicum, Vancouver Island. (Macoun.) Alaska. (Ghamisso.) 



Var. gracilis, Olney; Macoun, Cat. IV., 120. 



In grassy thickets at Agassiz, B.C., May 10th, 1889. (Macoun.) 



(3192.) C. illota, Bailey, Mem. Ton'. Eol. Club, I., 15. 



C. Bonplandii, Kunth? var. minor, Boott, Proc. Acad. Phila. (1863), 77. 

 C. Bonplandii, var. anguslifolia, W. Boott, Bot. Calif. II., 233. (1880.) 



" Distinguished from small forms of C. festiva, Dew., as follows : — 

 Very slender and usually tall (6 in. to 19 in.), the head very small 

 and globular or short-oblong (J in. or less in diameter) ; perigynium 

 completely marginless, thick below, stipitate, nerved, entirely smooth 

 on the ' edges, the cylindrical and scarcely-cut beak projecting 

 beyond the obtuse or muticous dark brown scale. The perigynia are 

 considerably like those of the G. canescens gi-oup. This species stands 

 midway between G. festiva and G. heleonastes." By little pools on the 

 mountains north of Griffin Lake, B.C., at an altitude of 6000 feet, Aug. 

 1889. (Macoun.) 



(2551.) C. synchnocephala, Carey; Macoun, Cat. IV., 121. 



In damp spots on the flat land north of the Perry, at Kamloops, 

 B.C., June 22nd, 1889. (Macoun.) 



(2554.) C. remota, Linn.; Macoun, Cat. IV, 122. 



Professor Bailey writes me that this species is of very doubtful 

 occurrence in Canada, so we cancel it. 



