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604. SIS YRINCHIUM, Linn. Gen. 1017. (BLUE-EYED GRASS) 



(2275.) S. anceps, Cav. Pursh, Fl. I, 31; Hook., Fl. II., 207. 



S. Bermudiana, Michx., Fl. L, 33. 



S. Bermudiana, Linn. Var. anceps. Gray, Man. Ed. V., 517. 



Very common, either under this form or the next, from the Atlantic 

 to the Pacific. As the next is the commoner form, we place all general 

 references to S. Bermudiana under it and only record here the speci- 

 mens we have seen. Newfoundland to the Saskatchewan. (Hooker^ Fl?) 

 New Harbor, Newfoundland. (Rev. A. Waghorne.) Amherst Island 

 Magdalen Islands, N.S. (J. Richardson.) Coast of Gaspe", Q., and at 

 Belleville, Ont. (Macoun.) Vicinity of Hamilton, Ont. (Logie.) 

 Kitaman Eiver, Kootanie Valley, Eocky Mountains. (Dawson.) 

 Donald, Columbia Valley, B.C. (Macoun.) Sitka. (Rothr. Alask.) 



(2276.) S. mucronatum, Michx. Fl. L, 33; Hook., Fl. II., 206. 



S. Bermudiana, Linn. Var. mucronatum, Gray, Man. Ed. V., 517. 



Petty Harbor, Newfoundland. (R. Bell.*) Windsor, Halifax and 

 Pictou, N.S. (Sommers, Cat.') Wet meadows, Louisburg, Cape Breton. 

 (Macoun.) Meadows at Sherbrooke, Guysboro Co., N.S. (Faribault.) 

 Among grass, everywhere, New Brunswick. (Fowler, Cat.) Through. 

 out Quebec and Ontario, and extending to Hudson Bay on the north, and 

 including the prairie region, the Eocky Mountains, British Columbia 

 and Vancouver Island. All collectors throughout this immense region 

 have met with it, and although it takes the form of Var. albidum 

 on the prairies, and becomes more scabrous and taller on Vancouver 

 Island, there are no constant characters to separate it into varieties. 



(2277.) S. Californicum, Ait. Hort. Kew. (Ed. 1) IV., 135. 

 S. linealum, Torrey, Pacif. Ry. Rep., IV., 143. 



Abundant along the shores of Shawnagin Lake ; Home Lake, near 

 Qualicum ; and Sproat Lake, near Alberni, Vancouver Island, 1887. 



2278.) S. grand iflorum, Dougl. Hook., Fl. II., 207. 



A. most lovely flower and one of the earliest ; on dry mossy rocks, 

 amongst oaks in the southern part of Vancouver Island, especially at 

 Victoria and Cedar Hill. (Dawson, Fletcher, Macoun.) 



