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Var. acutiflora, Vasey. (MS.) ' N". Var. 



Abundant along the borders of brooks, and in river valleys, through- 

 out the southern part of Vancouver Island, extending to Nanaimo, 

 Qualicum, and Comox ; also Alberni, on the west coast. (Macoun.) 



698. DEYEUXIA, Clarion. (REED-BENT GRASS.) 



(2778.) D. sequivalvis, Benth. & Hook., Gen. Plant III., 1153. 

 A. xquivalvis, Trin. Agrost. II., 116 ; Macoun, Cat. No. 2128, b- 

 A. canina, var. eequivahis, Trin. ; Bong. Veg. Sitch. 171. 

 A. canina, Linn., /J. melaleuca, Bong. ; Hook., Fl. II., 240. (?) 

 A. mUebrandii, Thurber ; Boland. Trans. Calif. Agri. Soo. 136, (1864.) 



Eather common on the grassy beds of snow-slides, at Eoger's Pass, 

 Selkirk Mountains, B.C. (Macoun.) Sitka, and Ounalashka. {Bothr. 

 Alash,) Summits of the Eocky Mountains. {Hooker, Fl.) 



(2779.) D. Aleutica, Vasey, Cat. Grasses, U. S. 50, (1885.) 



Calamagrostis Aleviica, Trin. ; Hook., Fl. II., 241 ; Macoun, Cat. No. 2140. 

 C. albicans, Buckl. Proced. Acad. Philad. 92, (1862.) 



Crevices of rocks along the west coast of Vancouver Island and in 

 marshes, covered at high tide, on the Alberni Canal. (Macoun.} 

 Queen Charlotte Islands. (Dawson.) Sitka. (Barclay.) Ounalashka, 

 and Sitka. (Bothr. Alask. & Booker, FL) Ounalashka, 1885. (Mr. 

 S. Applegate.) 



(2780.) D. breviaristata, Vasey, Bull. Torr. Club XV., 48, N. Sp. 



" Culm 2-3 feet high, radical leaves very long, panicle 4 inches long, 

 nai-row and loose, branches unequal, vertieills numerous, the longer 

 ones about 1 inch long, erect, flowering, mostly to the base — empty 

 glume 2 lines long, ve y narrow, acute, membranaceous, scabrous on 

 the keel ; flowering glumes as long as the empty ones, and about the 

 same texture, lanceolate, acutish, 3 nerved, smoothish ; awn from 

 about the middle, shorter than the fl. gl. or sometimes nearly absent; 

 hairs rather sparse and fine, ^ to J as long as the fl. gl., those of the 

 pedicel scanty but longer ; palet as long as its glume, acute." 



In crevices of rocks amongst the islands in the outer part of Barclay 

 Sound, near Cape Beale, Vancouver Island. (Macoun.) 



