202 GEOLOGICAL StTRVET OP CANADA. 



697. CINNA, Linn. Gen. 15. (WOOD-REED GRASS.) 



(2776.) C. arundinacea, Linn.; Michx., P]. I., 38. 



MueMenbergia Oinna, Trin. ; Hook., Fl. II., 237. 

 Agrostis Oinna, Pursh, Fl. L, 64. 



This species and the next have been confounded and mostly reported 

 as C. pendula, but they appear quite distinct. ISTewfoundland. (Reeks.'} 

 Near Bedford, Halifax Co., IST.S. (Sommers, Cat.) • "Woods along 

 Brighara's Creek, near Hull, Q. (Fletcher, Fl. Ott.) Eather rare at 

 Belleville, Ont. (Macoun.) Swampy soil, London, Ont. (Burgess, 

 Millman.) Vicinity of Hamilton, Ont. (Logie.) Saskatchewan. 

 (Hooker, Fl.) 



(27'7t.) C. pendula, Trin.; Vasey, Cat. Grasses, U. S. 49, (1885.) 



C. latifolia, Griesb. ; Eothrock's Alaskan Plants, 459. 



C. arundinacea, Linn., yaa.pendvla, Gray, Man. Ed. V., 613. 



MueMenbergia pendvla. Bong.; Hook., Fl. II., 237. 



Much commoner than the preceding, and more northern in its dis- 

 tribution, A beautiful and conspicuous grass. Damp woods at Why- 

 cocogmah. Cape Breton. (Macoun.) In deep shady places, Molus and 

 Bass rivers, N". B. (Fowler, Cat.) Dideguash River, KB. (Hay.) 

 Salt Lake, Jupiter River, and Becscie River, Anticosti. (Macoun.) 

 Ste. Catherine, Jacques Cartier Rivor, Q. (St. Cyr.) Sandy banks of 

 the Riviere Rouge, Argenteuil Co., Q. (D' Urban.) Yicinity of Ottawa. 

 (Fletcher, Fl. Ott.) Banks of Nation River, near railway crossing, and 

 and noi-thward; rare, Prescott, Ont. (Billings.) Abundant in low, 

 damp woods, along streams and small brooks, throughout central 

 Ontario ; also at Port Hope and Owen Sound, and westward all around 

 Lake Superior to the Nipigon River. (Macoun.) North shore of Lake 

 Superior! (Agassiz.) Wet woods, London, Ont. (Burgess. Millman.) 

 Parry Sound, Georgian Bay. (Burgess.) Sault Ste. Marie. (Fletcher.) 

 Oba Lake, Ont. (R. Bell.) Lake Mistassini, N.E.T. (J. Richardson.) 

 Loon Strait, Lake Winnipeg. (J. M. Macoun.) Abundant in wet woods, 

 northern Manitoba; Cypress Hills, and northward to Edmonton and 

 Peace River; Columbia Valley, and westward through the valleys of 

 the Selkirk Mountains, B.C. (Macoun.) Sitka. (Hooker, FL) 



Var. mutica, Vasey. 



Pelly Banks, lat. 62°, N.W.T., 1887. (Dawson.) 



