180 GEOLOGICALtSTJRVET OP CANADA. 



(2704.)^P. scoparium, Lam. Bncycl. lY. 



P. pauciflorum, Ell. (?) ; Gray, Man. Ed. V., 648. 

 Sparingly collected on Point Pel^e, Lake Erie. (Burgess.) Spence's 

 Bridge, B.C. (^Fletcher.) Abundant at Long Lake, near Departure 

 Bay, shores of Shawnigan and Home Lakes, and common at Alberni,. 

 on the west coast of Yancouver Island. {Macoun.) 



(270.').) P. virgatum, Linn.; Michx., Fl. I, 352 ; Pursh, Fl. L, 67 ;. 

 Hook., PL II., 235. 

 Sandy shores of rivers and lakes. Sands of Presqu'ile Point, Lake 

 Ontario ; shores of Bed and Chicken Bays, Lake Huron. (^Macoun.y 

 Port Colborne, Lake Erie. {McGill Coll. Herb.) Point aux Pins,. 

 Lake Erie. {Burgess.) Bed Deer River, north of Porcupine Mountain,. 

 Man. ; sand hills, at the source of the Qu'Appelle Eiver, Assiniboia^ 

 (^Macoun.) Lake Huron, and Saskatchewan. {Hooker, Fl.) Red River,. 

 Man., 1826. {Douglas.) 



(2706.) P. xanthophysum, Gray, Gram. & Cyp. I., 20; Hook., 

 PI. II., 235. 

 Bather rare in open, rocky, or sandy woods. Yicinity of Ottawa. 

 {Fletcher, Fl. Ott.) Fields near the Grand Trunk gravel pit, Prescott,. 

 Ont. {Billings.) Diy thickets and meadows, east of Belleville ; very 

 common ; also on Rice Lake Plains, and at Port Dover Junction,. 

 Ont. {Macoun.) Yicinity of Hamilton, Ont. {Logie.) Port Colborne^ 

 Lake Erie. {McGill ColV Serb.) La Oloche, Trading Post, Georgian 

 Bay. {B. Bell.) Sandy soil, twenty miles up the Kaministiqua, west 

 of Lake Superior ; not uncommon in thickets along the Assiniboine, as- 

 far west as Fort Ellice, Man. {Macoun.) Plains of the Saskatchewan,. 

 {Soaker, Fl.) 



674. SETARIA, Beauv. (BRISTLY FOXTAIL-GRASS.) 



(27.07.) S. GLAUCA, Beauv. ; Hook., PI. II., 236. 



Panicum glaucum, Linn. ; Michx., Fl. I., 46 ; Pursh, Fl. I., 66. 

 Pennisetum glaucum, B,. Br., Prodr. 195. 



Naturalised in cultivated grounds, and on waste places about towns 

 and cities. A common weed in gardens and manured ground, Bass 

 Eiver, N.B. {Fowler, Cat.) St. Eemi, Q. (McGill Coll. Serb.) Point 

 L6vis, Q. {Macoun.) Quebec city. {St. Cyr.) Yicinity of Ottawa. 

 {Fletcher, Fl. Ott.) Yery common at Prescott, Ont. {Billings.) Abun- 

 dant in all cultivated grounds near barns, and on waste lots in villager 



