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Port Arthur; at Emerson, Man. (Burgess.) Kingston, Ont. (Millman.} 

 Eupert Eiver, ]Sr.E.T. ; Severn River, Keewatin. (J. M. Macoun.) 

 Churchill Eiver, Hudson Bay. (R Bell.) ISTot uncommon between Win- 

 nipeg and Point du Chien, Man. (Dawson.) In muddy places through- 

 out the prairie region, especially northward, and from Calgary through 

 the Eocky Mountains to the Columbia Valley; through northern 

 British Columbia, to Fort McLeod, lat. 55°. (Macoun.) Ilgaoho Brook, 

 B.C. (Dawson.) Eed Eiver, Man., 1826. (Douglas.) Canada to Bear 

 Lake. (Hooker, Fl.) Departure Bay, Vancouver Island. (Meehan.) 



Var. robustus, Vasey, Bull. Torr. Bot. Club, XV., 13. 



In wet places at Ladner's Landing, on the Fraser Eiver, BC, 1885. 

 (Fletcher.) Ponds, near Victoria and Cedar Hill (1875) ; and on Mount 

 Benson, near Nanaimo, Vancouver Island. (Macoun.) Alaska. (Vasey.) 

 This is a new variety. 



(2Y31.) A. Macounii, Vasey, Bull. Torr. Bot. Club, XV., 12. 

 A. geniculatm, var. pumila, Vasey. (MS. ?), 1875. 

 On dry rocks close to Victoria, 1875. Abundant in hollows in rocks 

 where water lies, in the spring at Cadboro and Oak bays, near Victoria, 

 Vancouver Island, 1887. (Macoun.) Very near if not identical with 

 A. Howellii, Vasey. 



(2732.) A. PEATBNSis, Linn. ; Pursh, Fl. I., 65; Hook., Fl. II., 234. 



Introduced from Europe and very abundant in meadows in the 

 Atlantic provinces. USTewfoundland. (Beeks.) Bedford, Halifax Co., 

 iN'.S. (Sommers, Cat.) Very abundant at Annapolis (where it is 

 locally named French Timothy), Grand Pr6, "Windsor, and Halifax, !N".S ; 

 common at Louisburg, Cape Breton, where its French origin is again 

 seen ; not uncommon in meadows at Victoria, and I^anaimo, Vancouver 

 Island. (Macoun.) 



(2733.) A. occidentalis, Scribner, Coulter's Bot. Gaz. XI., 17», 

 (1886.) 



A. alpinus, Dawson, Bound. Eep. 377. 



A. pratends, var. cdpestris, Vasey, Cat. Grasses, U. States, 34, (1885.) 

 A. alpinus, Hook., Pi. II., 234, in part. 

 North Fork of Old Man Eiver, foot-hills of Eocky Mountains. 

 (Dawson.) The leafy bract at the base of the spike is very characteristic 

 of this species. 



