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spike very short (usually only a fourth or a third of an inch long), 

 closely sessile-inclined and inconspicuous ; lowest bract leaf-like, often 

 an inch or two long." On the sides of ravines, Truro, and Pirate's 

 Cove, Strait of Canso, W.S. 1883. (Macoun & Burgess.) 



(2649.) C. varia, Muhl., in Wahl. Kongl. Acad. Hand!., XXIV., 159. 

 (1803.) Bailey, Mem. Torr. Bot. Club, I., 40. 



Eeferences under C. Emmonsii, Dewey, Part IV., 159, belong here. 



(2650.) C. Novae-Anglise, Schw.; Bailey, Mem. Torr. Bot, Club, 

 I., 44. 



C. Novse-Angliie, Macoun, Cat. IV., 160, in* part. 



" Very slendei', stoloniferous, the culms 6 to 8 inches high, about 

 the length of the very narrow loose leaves; staminate spike quite 

 distinct, erect and prominent, 3 to 8 lines long, mostly minutely 

 peduncled, exceedingly narrow (about half a line broad) ; pistillate 

 spikes usually two, the upper near the base of the staminate spike, the 

 lower from J to 1 inch removed and short-stalked and subtended by a 

 bract which nearly or quite equals the culm, both rather loosely three 

 to six-flowered ; radical spikes none ; perigynium very narrow, often 

 nearly oblanceolate, very thinly hairy, the sharp beak prominent; 

 stigmas often two." In damp woods, Point Pleasant, Halifax, N.S. 

 {Burgess & Macoun.') G-rassy places at Cove Head and Brackley 

 Point, Prince Edward Island. (Macoun.) Woods near St. Martin, 

 N.B. 1888. (Brittain.) 



(3198.) C. deflexa, Hornemann; Bailey, Mem. Torr. Bot. Club, 

 I., 41. 



C. Novse-Angliss, Macoun, Cat. IV., 160, in part. 



" Very low, much tufted ; culms from 1 to 6 inches long, setaceous 

 more or less curved or spreading, little exceeding or shorter than the 

 narrow leaves ; staminate spike exceedingly minute and nearly always 

 invisible in the head ; pistillate spikes two or three, two to five- 

 flowered, green or green-and-brown, all aggregated into a small head, 

 the lowest one always more or less short-peduncled and subtended by 

 a leafy bract, a half inch or less long ; radical spikes very few or none ; 

 perigynium very small, much contracted below, sparsely haii-y or 

 nearly smooth, the flat beak exceedingly short." Ou sandy or rocky 

 places near water, G-asp^ Peninsula, Q. (Macoun.) Portage, Kent 

 Co., KB. (Brittain.) 



