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693. SPOROBOLUS, R. Br. DROP-SEED GRASS.) 



(.2757.) S. asperifolius, Thurber, Bot. Calif. 11., 270. 



Vil/a asperifolius, ^'ees. & Meyer, in Trin. Agrost. I., 73. 

 Sporobolus arenaccus, Buckl. Proced. Acad. Pliilad. 89, (1862.) 



Dry, open prairie, on the east side of Eeed Lake, Assiniboia, 1880. 

 (Macoun.) Upper valley of the Columl)ia, near a hot spring, B.C. 

 {JDawson.) Chinaman'sRanche, on the Thompson Eiver, B.C. (Fletcher.) 



(2758.) S. cryptandrus, Graj-, Man. Ed. II., 542. 



Affroslis eryptandra, Torr. Ann. Lye. X. York. I., 151. 

 I'll/a eryptandra, Trin. Agrost. I., 47. 

 ]'. aspera, Logie, Cat. Hamilton Plants. 



On the .sands of Presqu'ile Point, Lake Ontario. (Macoun.) Along 

 Burlington Beach, near Hamilton, Ont. (Logie.) On sand along the 

 lake shore, Toronto Lsland ; Point aux Pins, Lake Ei-ie. (Burgess.) 

 Sandy .shore. Hamilton, Ont. (Millman.) Point Edward, River St. 

 Clair, Ont. (J. M. Macoun.) Amongst sand, Stinking Lake, and 

 Mapie Creek, north of Cj-press Hills, Assiniboia. (Macoun.) 



(2759.) S. cuspidatus, Scribner, Torr. Bull. IX., 103. 



Vilja cusjiiduta, Torr. ; Hook., Fl. II., 238. 



Agroslis eryptandra, Torr. Ann. Lye. N. York I., 151. 



Simonds, Carleton Co., N.B. (Brittain.) Rather common on dry 

 prairies, from Manitoba westward to the Rocky Mountains. (Macoun.) 

 North Fork of Old Man River, Rocky Mountains. (Dawson.) Banks 

 of the Saskatchewan, near the Rocky Mountains, and plains of the Red 

 River. {Hooker, Fl.) The limits of this and the next species are so 

 poorly defined that I cannot satisfactorilj' separate them. 



(2760.) S. depauperatus, (?) Scribner, Torr. Bull, IX., 103. 



ra/o depauperata, Torr. ; Hook., Fl. II., 257. 

 r. utilis, Ton., Pacif. R. Rep. V., 365. 



Amongst gravel along Jupiter River, Anticosti. (3facoun.) Hurri- 

 cane Hills, Assiniboia. (.7. M. Macoun.) Very common in damp 

 prairie, from Manitoba, Touchwood Hills, and westward and southward 

 across the southern prairie region ; damp places in the foot-hills, and 

 westward through the Rocky Mountains to the Columbia A^alley, at 

 Donald. (Macoun.) 



