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(2854.) P. cenisia, All. ; Yasey, Cat. Grasses U. S., 81, (1885.) 



P. arctica, R. Br.; Hook.. Fl. II., 246, in part; Macoun, Cat. No. 2191. 

 Pflexuosa, Wahl. Fl. Suec. (1824.) 



Labrador ; Rocky Mountains to the Arctic sea-shore and islands in 

 every direction. (Hooker, FL) Ford's Harbor, Labrador ; Cape Chud- 

 leigh, Nottingham Island, Digge's Island, and Mansfield Island, Hud- 

 son Strait. (R. Bell.) Fort George, Little Charlton Island, and " The 

 Twins," James Bay; west coast of Hudson Bay. (J. M. Macoun.') 

 Between Fort Churchill and Cape Lady Pelly, north of Hudson Bay. 

 (Dr. Eae.} Point Barrow, Alaska. (John Murdoch.} Cape Lisburne, 

 Kotzebue Sound, Ounalashka, and Sitka. (Eothr. Alask.) On the beds 

 of snow-slides on all the higher Rocky and Selkirk mountains. 

 (Macoun.) Hills north of Finlayson Lake, N.W.T. (Dawson.) Green- 

 land. (Lange.) 



(2855.) P. COMPRESSA, Linn. (English Blue Grass.) 



This is considered an excellent pasture grass, but is much inferior to 

 Poa pratensis. Truro, Annapolis and Kingston, N. S. (Macoun.) 

 Harvey, York Co. ; Fredericton Junction, and St. John; Bellisle, N.B. 

 (Fowler, Cat.) Magdalen Islands, KS. (J. Richardson.) St. Charles 

 River, Q, (St. Cyr.) Field, Ste. Anne des Monts River, Gasps', Q. 

 (Macoun.) Vicinity of Tadousac, Q. (A. T. Drummond.) Neighbor- 

 hood of Ottawa. (Fletcher, FL Ott.) Common at Prescott, Ont. 

 (Billings.) Very common throughout central Ontario, in old pastures, 

 and westward to Owen Sound. (Macoun.) Vicinity of Hamilton, Ont. 

 (JJogie.) Sterile sandy soil, London, Ont. ; also Parry Sound, Georgian 

 Bay. (Burgess.) In pastures at Cedar Hill, and Cloverdale, Vancouver 

 Island. (Macoun.) 



(2856.) P. Californica, Vasey, Cat. Grasses U. S. 81, (1885.) 



P. andina, Nutt. in herb. Gray ; Macoun, Cat. No. 2185. 

 Eragrostis Fendkri, Steud. Syn. Gram. 278. 

 Atropis Californica, Munro. (MS.) 



Abundant on the mountain slopes along the Fraser River, at Lytton, 

 and up the Thompson to Spence's Bridge, B.C. (Macoun.) 



(2857.) P. cuspidata, Vasey & Scribner. 



Rather common on the higher slopes of the Rocky and Selkirk 

 mountains, and frequent in all the valleys. (Macoun.) 



(2858.) P. debilis, TOIT. Bot. N. York, II., 459. 



Not uncommon in woods eastward. Rocky woods at Pirate's Cove, 

 Canso, N.S. (Macoun & Burgess.) Petitcodiac, N.B. (Fowler, Cat.) 



