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ville, and Andover, X.B. (Brittain.) St. Stephen, N.B. ( Vroom.) 

 Damp woods, near London, Ont. {Burgess. MiUman.) 



(2850.) P. andina, Nult.; Vasey, Cat. Grasses U. S., 79, (1885.) 



This species seems to be badly characterized or poorly understood. 

 Ungava, Labi-ador. (Barnston.) Sand beaches, Poplar Eiver, Lake 

 Nipigoii, Ont. {Macoun.) 



Var. purpurea, Vasey. (MS.) 



Red Deer Lakes, Hand Hills, and Red Deer River, Alberta. (Macoun.) 



(2851.) P. ANNi-.v, Linn. ; Hook., Fl. II., 245. 



This species has become naturalized wherever settlements have been 

 made, and it seems to thrive as well on the shores of Hudson Bay as 

 under the genial skio-^ of Vancouver Island. Gi'eenland. (Lange,) 



(2852.) P. Bolanderi, Vasey, Coult. Bot. Gaz. VII., 32. 

 On sand at Sookc, Vancouver Island. (Fletcher.) 



(2853.) P. caesia, Smith; Gray, Man. Ed. V., 629. 



P. nenwmii/<, Hook., Fl. 11., 246. 



F. fjlauca, Vahl., Fl. J^an. t. 964, (1790) 



An abundant and useful grass forming much of the pasture in the 

 eastern and northern pai-ts of the prairie region. At Windsor, N.S. 

 (Macom.) Taborville, King's Co., N.B. {Fmoler, Cat.) Summit of 

 Mount Albert, Gaspe, Q. {Porter.) Very common at Belleville, along 

 the Eiver Moira, Ont. ; north-east coast of Lake Superior, and around 

 Thunder Bay, and up the Kaministiqua to Kakabeka Falls. {Macoun.) 

 Gravelly shores, London, and Parry Sound, Georgian Bay. {Burgess.) 

 Vicinity of Hamilton, Ont. {Logic.) Severn Eiver, and west coast of 

 Hudson Bay. (./. M. Macoun.) Point Wilkins, Lake Winnipegoosis, 

 Man. ; west of Touchwood Hills ; Brandon, and Old Wives Lakes ; 

 south of Battloford. {Macoun.) Moose Mountain Creek, Assiniboia. 

 (■/. M. Macoun.) North Fork of Old Man River, Rocky Mountains ; 

 Lake Lindeman, lat. 59° 40'; Dease River, lat. 59°; Frances Eiver, 

 lat. 61°; Pelly Banks, lat. 62°, B.C., and KW.T. {Dawson.) Spence's 

 Bridge, B.C. {Macoun.) 



Var. strictior, Gray, Man. Ed. V., 629. 



Damp rocks near Sault Ste. Marie; Flat Rock Portage, Nipigou 

 House, Lake Nipigon ; on dry slopes of the foot-hills of the Rocky 

 Mountains, at Morley. {Macoun.) Wet gravelly shore of Lake 

 Superior, at Port Arthui-. {Burgess.) 



