3S2 GEOLOGICAL SURVIiT OP CAI^ADA. 



(SIDY.) C. Macounii, A. Bennett; Bailey, Mem. Torr. Bot. Club, 

 I., 45. 



C salina, var. (?) rohusta, Bailey ; Macoun, Cat. IV., 147. 



See description and notes on page 147. 



(2611.) C. cryptocarpa, Meyer, var. pumila, Bailey, Mem. Torr. 

 Bot. Club, I., 27. 



C. cryptocarpa, Macoun, Cat. IV., 148 in part. 



"Low (6 to 12 in. bigh); pistillate spikes, commonly two, short 

 (f in. or less), ovate or sbort-oblong ; scales bi-oad and muticous, but 

 little longer than the much lighter colored perigynium.'" Queen 

 Charlotte Islands. (Dawson.) Vicinity of Victoria, Vancouver Island. 

 (Fletcher.) Gordon Head, Nanaimo, Qualicum and Comox, Vancouver 

 Island; common in salt marshes along Burrard Inlet, B.C. 1889. 

 (Macoun.) 



(2613.) C. Barbarse, Dew. ; Macoun, Cat. IV., 148. 



Quite common on the border of Burnaby Lake, and eastward in 

 marshes to Griffln Lake, in the Gold Eange, B.C. 1889. (Macoun.) 



(2620.) C. Raynoldsii, Dew. ; Macoun, Cat. IV., 151. 



In a mountain valley north-west of Spence's Bridge, B.C. 1889. 

 (J. M. Macoun.) 



(2627.) C. SalterensSs, Bailey, Mem. Torr. Bot. Club, I., 7. 



C. vaginata, Tausch. ; Macoun, Cat. IV., 153. 



Professor Bailey separates this species from the European 0. vaginata 

 by its much more slender and less csespitose habit, narrower leaves and 

 less conspicuous sheaths, its alternately-flowered spikes, and its much 

 smaller, less inflated, and conspicuously nerved perigynium. All 

 references in Part IV., 153, belong here. Low ground near Hamilton, 

 Ont., 1889. (Burgess.) 



(2636.) C. laxiflora, Lam. ; Macoun, Cat. IV., 155. 



Professor Bailey has revised this spepies and finds the type to be 

 what we have been calling C. laxiflora, var. intermedia, Boott. It 

 embraces slender plants, characterized by narrow leaves (usually less 

 than J in. in width), a peduncled, or at least very conspicuous staminate 

 spike, scattered pistillate spikes, which are very loose flowered and 



