236 GEOLOGICAL SURTEY OF CANADA. 



feet, Vancouver Island. (Macoun.) On the Arctic sea-coast and is- 

 lands; and Rocky Mountains. (Hooker, Fl.) Eae Elver. Arctic coast- 

 (Dr. Rae.) 



Var. polyphylla, Tasey, Cat. Grasses U.S. 90, (1885.) 

 A fine tall grass growing on Jiillsides at Goldstream and Nanaimo, 

 Vancouver Island. (Macoun.) 



Tar. vivipara, Gray, Man. Ed. V., 633. 



Common along the coast of Anticosti, at Jupiter, Eiver. (Macoun.) 

 Severn Eiver, Keewatin. (J. M. Macoun.) Cumberland House, Bear 

 Lake, and Arctic sea-coast. (Hooker, Fl.) 



(2906.) F. RichardsonI, Hook., Fl. II., 250. 

 Arctic sea-coast. (Hooker, Fl.) Alaska. ( Vasey.) 



(2907.) F. rubra, Linn. ; Hook., Fl. II., 250. 



All forms of this species liavo running root-stocks. Cape Forteau, 

 Yarmouth, N.S., and North Sydney, Cape Breton. {Maroun & Burgess.) 

 Eivicre de Brig, Anticosti, and along the (rasp^ coast, near Fox Eivei-. 

 (Macoun.) London, Ont., anil Emerson, Man. (Bitrges's.) Xear Vic- 

 toria, Vancouver Island. (Fletcher.) Abundant along the whole coast 

 of Vancouver Island, from Esquimalt to Qualicum. (Macoitn.) Sitka, 

 and Kotzebue Sound. (Rothr. Alask.) Bartlett Bay, and Sitka, Alaska. 

 (Meehan.) (^ueen Charlotte Islands. (Dauson.) 



Var. villosa, Vasey. (MS.) 



Fi^stuca rubra, var. I., Hook. Fl. II., 250. 



North Fork of Old Man Eiver, Eocky Mountains. (Dawson.) 

 Apparently not rare in the foot hills of the Eocky Mountains. (Maccnin.) 



Besides the above variety, we have vare. genuinea, longiseta, and 

 ■planifolia, Vasey, which may be distinct enough to separate them from 

 the species. All are common on the coast of Vancouver Island, near 

 Victoria. 



(2908.) F. SCabrella, Torr. ; Hook., Fl. II., 252. (Bunch Grass.) 



F. Macounii. Vasey ; Macoun, Cat. No. 220i. 

 Melica Ilallii, Vasey, Coult. Bot. Gaz. VI., 296. 



Summit of Mount Albert, .'^hickshock Mountains, Gasp^, Q. ; Moose 

 Mountain Creek, and Souris Plain, Assiniboja. (J. M. Macoun.) Abun- 

 dant around Brandon, and west to Moose Mountain and Moose Jaw; com- 

 mon at Calgary, and westward in the foot-hills at Morley; on moun- 

 tains at Speuce's Bridge, B.C. (Macoun.) Middle Fork of Old Man 



