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Kootanie Pass, Rocky Mountains ; upper crossing of the Blackwater 

 River, B.C. (Dawson.) Occasionally met with on dry gravelly slopes 

 in the Rocky Mountains, from Castle Mountain to Donald in the 

 Columbia Valley; Soda Creek, Eraser River, and Spence's Bridge, 

 B.C. (Macoun.) 



(2745.) O. melanocarpa. Muhl. Gram. 79. 



0. asperifolia, Kunth, Enurn. I., 176, in part. 

 Milium racemosum, Smith; Bigel. Fl. Bost., 25. 

 Piptatherum mgrum, Torr., Fl. I., 79. 

 Urachne racemosa, Trin. Diss. L, 174. 



Rocky woods, rather rare and local. Woods, vicinity of Ottawa. 

 (Fletcher, Fl. Ott.) Mirivvin's Woods, near Prescott, Ont. (Billings.) 

 Very common amongst Laurentian rocks at Shannonville, and through- 

 out North Hastings, Ont, (Macoun.) Jones Falls, Rideau Canal, Ont. 

 (Millman.) Wooded hillsides, London, Ont. (Burgess. Millman.) 



(2746.) O. cuspidata, Benth. Journ. Linn. Soc. XIX., 82. 



Ericoma cuspidata, Nutt. Gen. I, 40 ; Macoun, Cat. No. 2143. 



Stipa membranacea, Pursh, Fl. II., 728 ; Hook., Fl. II., 237. 



S. hymenoides, Rcem. & Schultz. Syst. II., 339. 



Urachne lanata, Trin. Panic. 38. 



Fendleria rhynchelytroides, Steud. Syn. Gram. 420. 



A most beautiful grass, growing in large clumps on sand in the 

 prairie region and British Columbia. White Mud River, Assiniboia, 

 and Milk River Ridge, Alberta. (Dawson. Burgess.} Very abundant 

 amongst sand hills at the source of the Qu'Appelle ; north of the 

 Cypress Hills; and south of Battleford. (Macoun} Fort Carleton, 

 Saskatchewan River. (Hooker, FL) 



688. MILIUM, Linn. Linn. Gen. 79. (MILLET-GRASS) 



(2747.) M. effusum, Linn.; Hook., Fl. II., 235. 



A fine tall grass, growing in cold damp woods throughout the north- 

 ern forest region. Wet thickets, Whycocomagh, Cape Breton ; and at 

 Salt Lake, and Jupiter River, Anticosti. (Macoun.) Richmond, Carle- 

 ton Co., KB. (Fowler, Cat.) Between Florenceville and Andover, 

 N.B. (Brittain.) Nepisiquit Lakes, KB. (Hay.) Island of Orleans, 

 and Thunder River, Q. (St. Cyr.) Sugar Bush Lake, Montcalm Co., 

 Q. (D 'Urban.) Damp woods near Ottawa. (Fletcher, FL Ott.) Woods, 

 near Prescott, Ont; common. (Billings.) Cold woods, and cedar 

 swamps, central Ontario, westward to Owen Sound, and north-westerly 

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