CATALOGUE OF PLANTS. 171 Northeast Creek; Sargent Mt.; High Head, and elsewhere (Rand);—Somerville; Sea Wall (R. & R.). Var. excelsior, Bailey. $ Yau. Cauo Taller and more slender (often 2° high), the heads usually c.d. more scattered and mostly somewhat greener. Bailey, l. c. Common in bogs and low grounds throughout the Island. 675 Var. cephalantha, Bailey. C. echinata, Murray, var. cepha- lantha, Bailey. Gray, Man., 6th ed., 618. Cauo Rather stiff but slender and tall, or the top of the culm weak c (1°-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-beaked perigynia usually spread nearly or quite at right angles. Bailey, l. c. Frequent. Little Cranberry Isle; Barr Hill; Seal Harbor (Redfield);—meadow, Doctors Brook; High Head meadow (Rand); — Salisbury Cove (R. & R.). 676 Var. angustata (Carey), Bailey. C. echinata, Murray, var. angustata, Bailey. Gray, Man., 6th ed., 618. C B IC Very slender, sometimes almost thread-like, weak, bearing long and narrow divaricate perigynia, which are either in loose small heads or in scattered spikes. Bailey, l. c. Rare. Wet ground at junction of Prettymarsh and Seal Cove roads (Rand). 677 C. Atlantica, Bailey. C. echinata, Murray, var. conferta, Bailey. Gray, Man., 6th ed., 618. Murau Cauo Hal. Tall (16'-24') and very stiff and strong, the leaves broad but 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, bifid beak, strongly many-nerved, especially upon the back, squarrose or usually retrorse at maturity, shelling off readily when ripe. Bailey, l. c. Frequent. Sargent Mt.; Freeman Heath; meadow on Sunken Heath Brook; wood road to Aunt Bettys Pond (Rand). None of the specimens thus far collected are really typical.