222 GEOLOGICAL SIRVET OF CANADA. 



722. BRIZA, Linn. Gen. 84. (QUAKINGIGRASS.) 



(2846.) B. MEDIA, Linn.; Gray, Man. Ed. V., 633. 



Introduced and naturalized in a few places, ileadow near London, 

 Ont. ; very rare. {Millman.) On dry rocks at the Halfway House, 

 near Nanaimo, Vancouver Island. {Macoun.') 



723. POA, Linn. Gen. 83. ^MEADOW GRASS.) 



(2847.) P. abbreviata, R. Br. : Hook., Fl. II., 247. 



Melville Islands, and Igloolik ; Kotzebue Sound. (Hooker, Fl.) 

 Port Bowen, Labrador, 1825. {Lieut. Ross.) Digge's Island, Hudson 

 Strait. (R. Bell.) On rocks near the sea, Cadboro Bay, and on sand 

 at Qualicum, Vancouver Island. (Macoun.) Greenland. {Lange.) Some 

 of these references are doubtful. 



(2848.) P. alpina, Linn.; Hook.. Fl. II., 246. 



Abundant on mountains and on the northern coast. Nain, coast of 

 Labrador; and Cape Chudleigh, Hudson Strait. {R. Bell.) New- 

 foundland. {Sir Joseph Banks.) Jupiter River, and Gunn River, 

 Anticosti; Rivii^re Ste. Anne des Monts, Gasp^, Q. (Macoun.) Mount 

 Albert, Gasp6, Q. (Porter.) Harbor Island, Mingan, Q. (St. Cyr.) 

 North shore of Lake Superior. (Agassiz.) At Otter Head, and Pie 

 Island, Lake Superior ; Point Wilkins, Lake Winnipegoosis, Man. 

 (Macoun.) '■ The Twins," James Bay ; west coast of Hudson Bay. 

 (J. M. Macoun.) York Factory to Fort Churchill. (R. Bell.) Between 

 Repulse Bay and Cape Lady Pelly. ( Dr. Rae.) Rather abundant on 

 the Rocky Mountains, from the Kananaskis westward to Roger's Pass, 

 in the Selkirk Mountains; Stewart's Lake Mountain, and Fort Mc- 

 Leod, B.C. ; summit of Mounts Benson and Arrowsmith, Vancouver 

 Island. (Macoun.) Eastern and western summits of North Kootanie 

 Pass, Rocky Mountains; Lake Lindeman, lat. 59° 40', B.C., and Pelly 

 Banks, lat. 62°, N.W.T. (Bauson.) From the elevated grounds of the 

 Saskatchewan to the Rocky Mountains, and Bear Lake. (Hooker, Fl.) 

 Pond's Bay, Baffin's Bay. (Dr. Walker.) Gi-eenlaud. (Lange.) 



(2849.) D. alsodes, Gray, Man. Ed. V., 630. 



P. nemoralis, Torn, Fl. I., 111. 

 Dartmouth, near Halifax, N.S. (Sommers, Oat.) Between Florence- 



