CATALOGUE OE PLANTS. 
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northeast Creek ; Sargent Mt.; High Head, and elsewhere 
(Rand); —Somesville; Sea Wall (R. & R.). 
Var. excelsior, Bailey'. ^ 
Taller and more slender (often 2° high), the heads usually^ ^ 
more ■ scattered and mostly somewhat greener. Bailey, 1. 
Common in hogs and low grounds throughout the Island. ' 
Var. cephalantha, Bailey. C. echinata, Murray, var. cepha- 
lantha, Bailey. Gray, Man., 6th ed., 618. 
Rather stiff hut slender and tall, or the top of the culm weak 
(l°-2° high); head mostly continuous or more or less dense and ^ 
composed of five to eight approximate (rarely scattered), large 
(15-30-flowered) green or greenish loose spikes, in which the ma¬ 
ture narrow long-heaked perigynia usually spread nearly or quite 
at right angles. 'Bailey, 7. c. Rrequent. Little Cranberry Isle; 
Barr Hill; Seal Harbor (Eedfield) ; —meadow. Doctors Brook; 
High Head meadow (Rand) ; — Salisbury Cove (R. & R.). 
Var. angustata (Carey), Bailey. C. echinata, Murray, var. 
angustata, Bailey. Gray, Man., 6th ed., 618. 
Very, slender, sometimes almost thread-like, weak, hearing 
long and narrow divaricate perigynia, which are either in loose 
small heads or in scattered spikes. Bailey, 1. c. Rare. Wet 
ground at junction of Prettymarsh and Seal Cove roads (Rand). 
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C. Atlantica, Bailey. C. echinata, Murray, var. conferta, 
Bailey. Gray, Man., 6th ed., 618. 
Tall (16'-24') and very stiff and strong, the leaves broad 
hut stiff and usually becoming somewhat involute when dry; 
spikes contiguous Or scattered, spreading, globular or short- 
cylindrical, densely flowered, green; the terminal one slenderly * , _ 
contracted below or even entirely staminate; perigynium large 
and very broad (the body about as broad as long), with a dis¬ 
tinct rough, l?ifid beak, strongly many-nerved, especially upon 
the back, squarrose or usually retrorse at maturity, shelling 
off readily when ripe. Bailey, 1. c. Frequent. Sargent Mt.; 
Freeman Heath ; meadow on Sunken Heath Brook ; wood road 
to Aunt Bettys Pond (Rand). Hone'of the specimens thus far 
collected are really typical. 
