236 GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA. 



feet, Vancouver Island. (Macoun.) On the Arctic sea-coast and is- 

 lands; and Rocky Mountains. (Hooker, Fl.) Eae River, Arctic coast- 

 (Dr. Eae.) 



Yar. polyphylla, Vasey, Cat. Grasses U. S. 90, (1885.) 

 A fine tall grass growing on hillsides at Goldstream and Nanaimo, 

 Vancouver Island. (Macoun.) 



Yar. vivipara, Gray, Man. Ed. V., 633. 



Common along the coast of Anticosti, at Jupiter, River. (Macoun.) 

 Severn River, Keewatin. (J. M. Macoun.) Cumberland House, Bear 

 Lake, and Arctic sea-coast. (Hooker, Fl.) 



(2906.) F. Richardsonl, Hook., PI. II., 250. 



Arctic sea-coast. (Hooker, FL) Alaska. ( Vasey.} 



(2907.) F. rubra, Linn. ; Hook., Fl. II., 250. 



All forms of this species have running root-stocks. Cape Forteau, 

 Yarmouth, N.S., and North Sydney, Cape Breton. (Macoun & Burgess.) 

 Riviere de Brig, Anticosti, and along the Gasp coast, near Fox River. 

 (Macoun.') London, Ont., and Emerson, Man. (Burgess.} Near Vic- 

 toria, Vancouver Island. (Fletcher.} Abundant along the whole coast 

 of Vancouver Island, from Esquimalt to Qualicum. (Macoun.} Sitka, 

 and Kotzebue Sound. (Rothr. Alask.) Bartlett Bay, and Sitka, Alaska. 

 (Meehan.) Queen Charlotte Islands. (Dawson.} 



Var. villosa, Yasey. (MS.) 



Festuca rubra, var. I., Hook. Fl. II., 250. 



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

 Apparently not rare in^the foot-hills of the Rocky Mountains. (Macoun.) 



Besides the above variety, we have vars. genuinea, longiseta, and 

 planifolia, Vasey, which may be distinct enough to separate them from 

 the species. All are common on the coast of Vancouver Island, near 

 Victoria. 



(2908.) F. scabrella, Tori-.; Hook., Fl. II., 252. (Bunch Grass.) 



F. Macounii. Vasey ; Macoun, Cat. No. 2204. 

 Melica Hallii, Vasey, Coult. Bot. Gaz. VI., 296. 



Summit of Mount 1 Albert, Shickshock Mountains, Gaspe", Q. ; Moose 

 Mountain Creek, and Souris Plain, Assiniboia. (J. M. Macoun.) Abun- 

 dant around Brandon, and west to Moose Mountain and Moose Jaw; com- 

 mon at Calgary, and westward in the foot-hills at Morley ; on moun- 

 tains at Spence's Bridge, B.C. (Macoun.) Middle Fork of Old Man 



