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the side smooth, obtuse, a httle exceeding the flowering glume 

 which is smooth, ovate-oblong, obtuse, the sides united to the 

 middle or above, the awn from near the base, 2 or 3 times as long 

 as its glume, bent at the middle. 



Grows on dry rocks, at Oak Bay, Vancouver Island. 



Collected by Prof. John Macoun. 



This species has a close resemblance to the preceding, but 

 seems sufficiently marked by the difference in the leaves and 

 sheaths and in the details of the flowers. 



Alopecurus GENICULATUS, var. ROBUSTUS. — Culms genicu- 

 late below, thick, simple or branching at the lower joints, i to l}4 

 ft. long, smooth; culm leaves 4 or 5, nodes black, smooth, sheaths 

 loose and inflated, 3 to 5 inches long, the lower longer than the 

 internodes, blade 3 to 6 inches long, 3 lines wide, ligule 2 lines 

 long, acute ; spike 2 to 3 inches long, 3 to 4 lines wide, cylindri- 

 cal, dense, exserted when mature; spikelets little more than I line 

 long, nearly half as wide; empty glumes httle united below, the 

 keels and lateral glumes ciliate-pubescent, obtuse and denticulate 

 at the apex; flowering glume nearly equal to the empty ones, 

 ovate-oblong, obtuse, smooth, the sides united to the middle, awn 

 from the middle, slender and httle exceeding the glume. 



We have specimens from Alaska. Mr. J. Macoun collected it 

 in Vancouver Island in 1875 and again during the present season. 



Alopecurus Californicus. — Under this name I Indicate 

 several forms from California and Oregon which have been re- 

 ferred to A, pratensis. They differ from that species in having 

 smaller spikelets (about i^ lines long instead of from 2 to 3), the 

 empty glumes only slightly united at the base (one-fourth to 

 one-fifth in A. pratensis), and obtuse or obtusish (not acute as in 

 A, pratensis) at the apex. In the different forms there is con- 

 siderable difference in the length and thickness of the spike, and 

 in the height and thickness of the culm. Further study of 

 these forms is needed. 



Re-discovery of Nymphsea elegans, Hook.i at a new Station, 



In June, 1849, '* i" ^ ^ox\A near the head of the Leona " river, 

 Dr. Charles Wright collected a number of specimens of a rare 

 and beautiful water-lily. These were doubtfully referred by Dr, 



