a in the Lake region (Asa Gray): Micnican, Keweenaw Co., Aug., °° 5 
_ (0. A. Farwell, no. 756) ; Round Island, Lake Superior, Aug. 2 1849 
502 PROCEEDINGS OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY. 
« « Culms more slender (averaging 1.5 mm. in diameter), about 8 (rarely 11) dm. 
high: leaves 2 to 5 (average 3.5) mm. wide: involucre black at base: scales 
greenish-black : bristles drab or olive-brown, not ferruginous. 
S. atrocinctus. Inflorescence 0.5 to 1.5 dm. high; the dichotomous 
rays of the umbel slender, elongated and drooping at the tips: spikelets 
ovate to ovoid-oblong, 3 to 6 mm. long, scattered on slender pedicels, or 
in glomerules of from 3 to 6, the outer generally distinctly pedicelled. — 
S. Eriophorum », Torr. 1. c. 331. S. Eriophorum, Torr. Fl. N. Y. ii. 
* 356; Gray, Man. 528; Béckl. Linnea, xxxvi. 731; in part. S. Erio- 
phorum, Michx., var. laxus, Gray, Man. ed. 2, 501, in part. S. cyperinus, 
Kunth, var. Eriophorum, Britton, Trans. N. Y. Acad. Sci. xi. 82; Brit- 
ton & Brown, Ill. Fl. i. 271; in part. Eriophorum cyperinum, L., var. 
laxum, Wats. & Coult. in Gray, Man. ed. 6, 582, in part. — The common 
species of the northeastern States and Canada, from Prince Edward Island 
and Lake Mistassini to the Saskatchewan, south to Connecticut, western 
New York, and Iowa. Specimens examined : — PRINCE Epwarp Ist- 
AND, Beackley Point, Aug. 24, 1888 (John Macoun): Ontario, Nipigon 
River, July 20, 1884 (John Macoun): Manrropa, Lake Winnipeg Val- 
ley, 1857 (E£. Bourgeau): SaskatcHEWwAN, without more definite 
locality, 1858 (H. Bourgeau): Maine, Fort Fairfield, 1881 (Kate Fur- 
bish) ; Orono, July 4, 1889 (JL L. Fernald) ; Northeast Harbor, July; 
1883 (EZ. L. Rand, R. W. Greenleaf); Sargent Mt., Mt. Desert Island, 
Aug. 6, 1883 (R. W. Greenleaf’); Long Pond Meadows and “ The Cleft, 
Seal Harbor, July 28, Aug. 7, 1890 (J. H. Redfield); Bubble Pond, 
Mt. Desert Island, Aug. 13, 1890 (J. H. Redfield) ; Rumford, July 4, 
1890 (J. C. Parlin) ; North Berwick, June, 1892 (/. C. Parlin) ; Wells, 
July 1, 1898 (Kute Furbish) : New Hampsuire, Crawford Notch, July 
28, 1853 (Wm. Boott); Randolph, July 28, 1897 (#. F. Williams) ; 
Shelburne, Aug. 12, 1883 (W. Deane); Jackson, July 29, 1890 (J. &. 
Churchill) ; Tuckerman’s Ravine, Mt. Washington, Aug. 28, 1889 (J. B 
Churchill) ; East Jaffrey, July 19, 1897 (B. L. Robinson, no. 325): 
Massacuuserts, Lynnfield, July 19, 1854 (Wm. Boott) ; Lowell, July 
9, 1882 (C. W. Swan) ; Chelmsford, July 24, 1882 (0. W. Swan) ; cha 
Pond, Cambridge, June 15, J853 (Wm, Boott); Boston, June 27, 188 
(C. W. Swan); Sharon, July 1, 1894 (E. F. Williams) ; summit, Grey- 
lock Mt, Aug. 4, 1898 (J. R. Churchill): Ruovr Isuanp, Providence 
(8. T. Olney): Connecticut, Southington, June 29, 1898 (Luman An- 
___ drews, no. 431), June 30, 1898 (0. H. Bissell, no. 706); New 8 stat 
1890 
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