CATALOGUE OF CANADIAN PLANTS. 



693. SPOROBOLUS, R. Br. (DROP-SEED GRASS.) 



(2*757.) S. asperifolius, Thurber, Bot. Calif. II., 270. 



Vilfa asperifolius, Nees. & Meyer, in Trin. Agrost. I., 73. 

 Sporobolus arenaceus, Buckl. Proced. Acad. Philad. 89, (1862.) 



Dry, open prairie, on the east side of Eeed Lake, Assiniboia, 1880. 

 {Macoun.) Upper valley of the Columbia, near a hot spring, B.C. 

 (JDawson.} Chinaman's Ranche, on the Thompson River, B.C. (Fletcher.) 



(2758.) S. cryptandrus, Gray, Man. Ed. IT., 542. 



Agrostis cryptandra, Torr. Ann. Lye. N. York. I., 151. 

 Vilfa cryptandra, Trin. Agrost. I., 47. 

 V. aspera, Logie, Cat. Hamilton Plants. 



On the sands of Presqu'ile Point, Lake Ontario. (Macoun.) Along 

 Burlington Beach, near Hamilton, Ont. (Logie.) On sand along the 

 lake shore, Toronto Island ; Point aux Pins, Lake Erie. (Burgess.) 

 Sandy shore, Hamilton, Ont. (Millman.) Point Edward, River St. 

 Clair, Ont. (J. M. Macoun.} Amongst sand, Stinking Lake, and 

 Mapie Creek, north of Cypress Hills, Assiniboia. (Macoun.} 



(2Y59.) S. cuspidatus, Scribner, Torr. Bull. IX., 103. 



Vilfa cuspidata, Torr. ; Hook., Fl. II., 238. 



Agroslis cryptandra, Torr. Ann. Lye. N. York L, 151. 



Simonds, Carleton Co., N.B. (Brittain.) Rather common on dry 

 prairies, from Manitoba westward to the Rocky Mountains. (Macoun.) 

 North Fork of Old Man River, Rocky Mountains. (Dawson.) Banks 

 of the Saskatchewan, near the Rocky Mountains, and plains of the Red 

 River. (Hooker, FL.) The limits of this and the next species are so 

 poorly denned that I cannot satisfactorily separate them. 



(2760.) S. depauperatus, (?) Scribner, Torr. Bull, IX., 103. 



Vilfa depauperata, Torr. ; Hook., Fl. II., 257. 

 V. utilis, Torr., Pacif. E. Rep. V., 365. 



Amongst gravel along Jupiter River, Anticosti. (Macoun.) Hurri- 

 cane Hills, Assiniboia. (<7. M. Macoun.) Yery common in damp 

 prairie, from Manitoba, Touchwood Hills, and westward and southward 

 across the southern prairie region ; damp places in the foot-hills, and 

 westward through the Rocky Mountains to the Columbia Valley, at 

 Donald. (Macoun.) 



