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693. SPOROBOLUS, R. Br. (DROP-SEED GRASS.) 



{2151.) S. asperifolius, Thm-ber, Bot. Calif. 11., 2M. 



Vilfa asperifolius, Nees. & Meyer, in Trin. Agrost. I., 73. 

 Sporobolus arenaceus, Buokl. Proced. Acad. Philad. 89, (1862.) 



Dry, open prairie, on the east side of Eeed Lake, Assiniboia, 1880. 

 {Macoun.) Upper valley of the Columbia, near a hot spring, B.C. 

 {Dawson.) Chinaman's Eanche, on tho Thompson Eiver, B.C. (Fletcher.) 



(2758.) S. cryptandrus, Gray, Man. Ed. II., 542. 



Agrostis cryptandra, Torr. Ann. Lye. N. York, I., 151. 

 Vilfa cryptandra, Trin. Agrost. I., 47. 

 V. aspera, Logie, Cat. Hamilton Plants. 



On the sands of Presqu'ile Point, Lake Ontario. (Macoun.) Along 

 Burlington Beach, near Hamilton, Ont. (Logie.) On sand along the 

 lake shore, Toronto Island ; Point aux Pins, Lake Erie. (Burgess.) 

 Sandy shore, Hamilton, Ont. (Millman.) Point Edward, Eiver St. 

 Clair, Ont. (J. M. Macoun.) Amongst sand, Stinking Lake, and 

 Mapie Creek, north of Cypress Hills, Assiniboia. (Macoun.) 



<2759.) S. CUSpfdatUS, Scribner, Torr. Bull. IX., 103. 



VUfa cuspidata, Torr. ; Hook., Fl. II., 238. 



Agrostis cryptandra, Torr. Ann. Lye. N. York I., 151. 



Simonds, Carleton Co., ]S".B. (Brittain.) Eather common on dry 

 prairies, from Manitoba westward to the Eocky Mountains. (Macoun.) 

 Iforth Fork of Old Man Eiver, Eocky Mountains. (Dawson.) Banks 

 of the Saskatchewan, near the Eocky Mountains, and plains of the Eed 

 Eiver. (Hooker, Fl.) The limits of this and the next species are so 

 poorly defined that I cannot satisfactorily separate them. 



(2760.) S. depauperatUS, (?) Scribner, Torr. Bull, IX., 103. 



Vilfa depauperata, Torr. ; Hook., Fl. II., 257. 

 V. utilis, Torr., Paeif. E. Rep. V.,,365. 



Amongst gravel along Jupiter Eiver, Anticosti. (Macoun.) Hurri- 

 cane Hills, Assiniboia. (J. M. Macoun.) Very common in damp 

 prairie, from Manitoba, Touchwood Hills, and westward and southward 

 across the southern prairie region ; damp places in the foot-hills, and 

 westward through the Eocky Mountains to tho Columbia Valley, at 

 Donald. (Macoun.) 



