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following specimens, many of them distributed as A. hyemalis, var. 

 geminala (Trin.) Hitchc. into which var. data seems to pass, are 

 characteristic. Newfoundland: swampy woods, Bell Island, Con- 

 ception Bay, Howe & Lang, no. 1 302 (awned form with panicles 3 

 dm. long); serpentine tablelands, alt. 380 m., Bonne Bay, Fernald k 

 Wiegand, no. 2514 (awned); open peat bogs, Birchy Cove (Curling), 

 Fernald & Wiegand, no. 2513 (awned). Magdalen Islands: wet 

 bogs among the sand ridges back of the Narrows, Alright Island, 

 Fernald, Long k St. Jo/in, no. (1850 (awnless); dry open woods and 

 clearings and sphagnous bog near Ktang du Nord village, Grindstone 

 1., Fernald, liartrtun, Long & St. John, nos. (iS47, 0848 (awnless); 

 wet bogs and mossy pond-margins among sandhills between East 

 Cape and East Point, Coffin I., Fernald, Long, k St. John, no. 0851 

 (awned); dunes de la Pointe-de-l'Est, He de la Grande-Entree, Marie- 

 l 'ietorin k Rolland-Gennain, no. 9018 (awnless); sur la Dune du Nord, 

 Grand Ktang, Marie-Victor in k Rottand-Germain, no. 9017; dry 

 clearing, Brion Island, St. John, no. 1766 (awnless). Nova Scotia: 

 Canso, ./. Fowler (awned); Sable Island, 87. John, nos. 1130, 1305 

 (awnless); springy sphagnous bog near mouth of Broad River, Fernald 

 k Bissell, no. 19,913 (awnless); wet peaty sloughs in barrens, Lower 

 Argyle, Fernald, Bissell, Graves, l.ong k hinder, no. 19,911 (awnless); 

 swampy spruce woods, Belleville, Ixmg k Linder, no. 19, 900; sphag- 

 nous swale bordering Salmon (Greenville) Lake, Yarmouth Co., 

 Fernald, Bissell, Graves, Long k Linder, no. 19,912 (awnless); dryish 

 sphagnous swales and bogs by Harris's Lake, Tiddvillc, Digby Co., 

 Fernald k Long, no. 19,914 (awnless). 



* A. perennans ( Walt ) Tuckenu. Common throughout, espe- 

 cially in woodlands and thickets and on banks of streams. Highly 

 variable and perhaps more than a single species. 



Calamagrostris Pickeringii Gray. Boggy barrens, Digby and 

 Yarmouth Cos. to Queens. Less common than the next. Previously 

 recorded only from Cape Breton. See p. 101. 



Calamagrostts Pickeringii Gray, var. DEBILIS (Kearney) Fer- 

 nald k Wiegand, Bhodora, xv. 135 (1913). Common on sphagnous 

 bogs and peaty barrens, Digby and Yarmouth Cos. to Queens. 

 Previously unknown between Massachusetts and Cape Breton. 

 See pp. 99, 148. 



* C. neglecta (Ehrh.) Gaertn., Meyer & Sclierb. Springy swales 

 sou tli of Amherst, thence common northward in eastern New Bruns- 

 wick, Prince Edward Island and the Magdalen Islands. See p. 131. 



Ammophila previligulata Fernald, Rhodora, xxii. 71 (1920). 

 Common throughout, on sandy shores and dunes. 



* Sphenopiiolis pallens (Spreng.) Scribn. Talus and crevices of 

 gypsum cliffs, Port Bevis (Victoria Co.) and Five-Mile River (Hauls 

 Co.). Sec pp. 104, 170. 



* Acena fatua L. Waste places, Yarmouth. Seep. 130. 



* DANTHONIA COMPRESSA Aust. Dry thickets and borders of 

 woods, Yarmouth to Annapolis and Halifax Cos. 



