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722. BRIZA, Linn. Gen. 84. (QUAKING1GRASS.) 





(2846.) B. MEDIA, Linn.; Gray, Man. Ed. V., 633. 



Introduced and naturalized in a few places. Meadow near London, 

 Ont. ; very rare. (Millman.) On dry rocks at the Halfway House, 

 near Nanaimo, Vancouver Island. (Macoun.) 



723. POA, Linn. Gen. 83. (MEADOW GRASS.) 



(2847.) P. abbreviate, R. Br. ; Hook., Fl. II., 247. 



Melville Islands, and Igloolik; Kotzebue Sound. (Hooker, Fl.} 

 Port Bowen, Labrador, 1825. (Lieut. Ross.) Digge's Island, Hudson 

 Strait. (R. Sell) On rocks near the sea, Cadboro Bay, and on sand 

 at Qualicum, Vancouver Island. (Mdcoun.) Greenland. (Lange.) Some 

 of these references are doubtful. 



(2848.) P. alpina, Linn.; Hook. ; Fl. II., 246. 



Abundant on mountains and on the northern coast. ' Nain, coast of 

 Labrador; and Cape Chudleigh, Hudson Strait. (Ji. Bell.) New- 

 foundland. (Sir Joseph Banks.) Jupiter River, and Gunn River, 

 Anticosti ; Riviere Ste. Anne des Monts, Gasps', Q. (Macoun.) Mount 

 Albert, Gasps', Q. (Porter.) Harbor Island, Mingan, Q. (St. Cyr.) 

 North shore of Lake Superior. (Agassiz.) At Otter Head, and Pie 

 Island, Lake Superior ; Point Wilkins, Lake Winnipegoosis, Man. 

 (Macoun.) " The Twins," James Bay ; west coast of Hudson Bay. 

 (J. M. Macoun.) York Factory to Fort Churchill. (R. Bell) Between 

 Repulse Bay and Cape Lady Pelly. ( Dr. Mae.) Rather abundant on 

 the Rocky Mountains, from the Kananaskis westward to Roger's Pass, 

 in the Selkirk Mountains ; Stewart's Lake Mountain, and Fort Mc- 

 Leod, B.C. ; summit of Mounts Benson and Arrowsmith, Vancouver 

 Island. (Macoun.) Eastern and western summits of North Kootanie 

 Pass, Rocky Mountains; Lake Lindeman, lat. 59 40', B.C., and Pelly 

 Banks, lat. 62, N.W.T. (Dawsm.) From the elevated grounds of the 

 Saskatchewan to the Rocky Mountains, and Bear Lake. (Hooker, Fl.) 

 Pond's Bay, Baffin's Bay. (Dr. Walker.) Greenland. (Lange.) 



(2849.) D. alsodes, Gray, Man. Ed. V., 630. 



P. nemoralis, Torr., Fl. L, 111. 

 Dartmouth, near Halifax, N.S. (Sommers, Oat.) Between Florence- 



