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to the Lake of the Woods. (Macoun.) North shore of Lake Superior. 

 (Agassiz.) Vicinity of Hamilton, Ont. (Logie) London, Kingston, 

 Parry Sound, and Sault St. Marie, Ont. (Burgess.) Oxford House, 

 Keewatin. (E. Sell) Lake Mistassini, KE.T. ; Souris Plain, and 

 Medicine Hat, N.W.T. (J. M. Macoun.) Common in wet places on 

 the prairie, and north-westward to Peace Eiver, and Lake Atha- 

 basca; abundant in the Eocky and Selkirk mountains; throughout 

 British Columbia to lat. 56; common on Vancouver Island. (Macoun.) 



(2895.) C. Obtusa, Trin. ; Hook. Fl. II., 249. 



Poa obtusa, Muhl.; Torr., Fl. L, 112. 

 St. Stephen, N.B. ( Vroom.) Apparently very rare in Canada. 



(2896.) C. pallida, Trin.; Gray, Man. Ed. V., 627. 



In and around springs ; rather local. At North Sydney, Cape Breton, 

 {Macoun & Burgess.) In water Petitcodiac, N.B. (Fowler, Cat.) 

 Vicinity of Ottawa. (Fletcher, Fl. Ott.) At O'Brien's Bridge, and 

 Canniffton, Hastings Co.; one mile south of Gibson's Mountain, Prince 

 Edward Co. ; at Cold Creek Bridge, Wooler, Northumberland Co. ; and 

 boggy ground, Sydenham Falls, Owen Sound. (Macoun.) Wet sandy 

 shore, Port Cockburn, Muskoka, Ont. (Burgess.) Vicinity of Hamil- 

 ton, Ont. (Logie. 



(2897.) C. pauciflora, Presl ; Hook, Fl. II., 248. 



.Not uncommon in marshes around Lesser Slave Lake, and westward 

 to Peace Eiver, at Hudson's Hope ; in the vicinity of springs and along 

 brooks in swamps in the valleys of the Selkirks ; rather common on 

 Vancouver Island, at Somenos, Nanaimo, and Stamp Eiver, on the 

 west coast. (Macoun.) Vicinity of Victoria, Vancouver Island. 

 {Fletcher) Sitka, Alaska, (Meehan) Nootka Sound. (Hooker, Fl) 

 Vancouver city, Burrard Inlet, B.C. (Prof. Fowler) 



(2898.) C. pumila, Vasey, Bull. Torr. Bot. Club XV., 48. 



A very small but distinct (new) species, gathered in salt marshes 

 along Barclay Sound, west coast of Vancouver Island, 1887. (Macoun.) 



729. FESTUCA, Linn. (FESCUE-GRASS.) 



(2899.) F. duriuscula, Linn. ; Pursh, Fl. L, 83. 



F. ovina, Linn., var. duruiscula, Gray, Man. Ed. V., 633. 

 We place under this species all coast forms without running root- 



