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720. DISTICHLIS, Rafin. (SPIKE-GRASS.) 



(2844.) D. maritima, Eaf. Journ. Phys. LXXXIX., 104. 



Brizopyrum spicatum, Hook. & Arn. ; Hook., Fl. II., 254, in part ; Gray,. 



Man. Ed. V, 628. 



' B. boreale, Presl, Rel. Hsenk. I., 280. 

 B. Americanum, Link. Hort. Berol. I., 160. 

 Poa Michauxii, Kunth, Enum. I., 325. 

 Festuca distichophylla, Michx., Fl. 1., 67; Pursh, Fl. I., 84. 



Abundant in salt marshes at Victoria, Cadboro Bay, and Nanaima 

 on the east, and Barclay Sound on the west side of Vancouver Island. 

 (Macoun.} Straits of De Fuca, and Nootka. (Hooker, Fl} 



Var. stricta, Thurber, Bot. Calif. II., 306. 



Brizopyrum spicatum, var. strictum, Gray. 



B. spicatum, Hook. & Arn. ; Hook., Fl. II., 254, in part; Macoun, Cat. 



No. 2175. 

 Poa boreale, Hook., Fl. II., 245. 



We place all our interior specimens under the variety, as they have 

 the loose panicle, few erect spikelets and pale green color that 

 characterize it. Very abundant by salt marshes throughout the whole 

 prairie region, from Winnipeg westward to the mountains, and the dry 

 interior of British Columbia. Hand Hills, and Eed Deer Lakes, 

 Alberta. (Macoun.} Maple Creek, Alberta. (J. M. Macoun.} Thompson 

 Eiver, B. C. (J. A. Hill.} " Chinaman's Eanche," above Spence's 

 Bridge, B. C. (Fletcher.} Plains of the Eed Eiver to the Eocky 

 Mountains. (Hooker, Fl.) Milk Eiver, lat. 49. (Millman.} Saline 

 soil, Wood Mountain, Assiniboia. (Burgess.} Eed Eiver, Man., 1827, 

 (Douglas.} 



721. DACTYLIS, Linn. Gen. 86. (ORCHARD GRASS.) 



(2845.) D. GLOMERATA, Linn. ; Nees. Gen. t. 65. 



Cultivated in orchards and lawns, and escaped to roadsides in many 

 parts of the older provinces. It seems better suited for Vancouver 

 Island than timothy, as it produces better pasture. 



