152 Canadian Record of Science. 



Column slightly incurved, 1J" long. Flowers greenish- 

 yellow, the lip with a purplish middle, and purplish nerves 

 radiating into the apical lobes. The flowers and column, as 

 well as the leaves and upper stem, bear the silky hairs 

 mentioned, some of which are 2" long. 



Collected by xMiss E. Taylor at Fort Smith, Great Slave 

 Eiver, in 1892. 



Phalaris minor, Retz. 



On ballast heaps at Nanaimo, Vancouver Island. {John 

 Macoun. Kerb. No. 323.) New to Canada. 



Agrostis inflata, Scribner, n. sp. 



Culms rather stout, 3-5 inches high, branched below. 

 Sheaths smooth, striate-veined, much exceeding the inter- 

 nodes, inflated, especially the uppermost, which partially 

 encloses the short (l-2in.), densely flowered panicle. 

 Ligule prominent. Leaf-blade flat, J— 2in. long. Spikelet 

 \\ lines long. Empty glumes lanceolate, awn-pointed, 

 especially the second one, scabrous on the keel. Flowering 

 glume about half the length of the. empty ones, slender- 

 awned on the back near the middle, awn exceeding the 

 glumes, callus minutely hairy on the anterior side. 



Described from specimens collected on rocks at Esqui- 

 mault, Vancouver Island, by Prof. John Macoun, June 9th, 

 1893. (Herb. No. 258.) More mature, rather shorter and 

 stouter specimens, with slightly broader, more striate- 

 veined sheaths, were collected on rocks at Beacon Hill, 

 Vancouver Island, August 7th, 1893. (Herb. No. 259.) 



Prof. Scribner further writes : " The spikelets in this 

 grass are very nearly those of Agrostis microphylla, Steud., 

 and it may prove to be only a much depressed form of that 

 species." But this does not seem to me probable. An 

 examination of our specimens of A. microphylla from Ore- 

 gon, Washington, and British Columbia shows nothing like 

 these plants, with the exception of specimens collected by 

 Dr. G. M. Dawson on Texada Island, Gulf of Georgia, which 

 answer well to the description of A. inflata, though a Utile 

 taller. 



