Contributions to Canadian Botany. 153 



AvENA STRIGOSA, Schieb. 



A weed in cultivated fields nearSooke, Vancouver Island, 

 1893. (John Macoun. Herb. No. 48.) New to Canada. 



PoA TBiviALis, L., var. PiLicuLMis, Scribner, new var. 



Culms smooth, very slender from a creeping rhizome, 

 radical leaves short, those of the culm 1-2 inches long, a 

 line wide or less, acute, scabrous ; ligule 2 lines long, acute. 

 Panicle 1-2 inches long, pyramidal. Spikelets two-flowered, 

 H lines long, much longer than the pedicels. Empty 

 glumes very acute, narrow-lanceolate, the first one-nerved 

 a little shorter than the three-nerved second glume, l)Oth 

 scabrous on the sharp keel. Flowering glume 1^ lines 

 long, acute distinctly five-nei-ved, pubescent on the sharp 

 keel for one-half its length, and with a cobwebby tuft at 

 base. 



In wet meadowH at Comox, Vancouver Island, 1893. 

 {John Macoun. Herb. No. 282.) 



