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722. BRIZA, Linn. Gen. 84. (QUAKING1GRASS.) 



(2846.) B. MEDIA, Linn.; Gray, Man. Ed. V., 633. 



Introduced and naturalized in a few places. Meadow near London, 

 Ont. ; very rare. {Millman.) On dry rocks at the Halfway House, 

 near Nanaimo, Vancouver Island. (^Macoun.') 



723. POA, Linn. Gen. 83. (MEADOW GRASS.) 



(284*7.) P. abbreviata, E.Br.; Hook., PI. IL, 24*7. 



Melville Islands, and Igloolik ; Kotzebue Sound. (Hooker, Fl.) 

 Port Bowen, Labrador, 1825. (Lieut. Boss.) Digge's Island, Hudson 

 Strait. (jB. Bell.) On rocks near the sea, Cadboro Bay, and on sand 

 at Qualicum, Yancouver Island. (Maccmn.) Greenland. (Lange.) Some 

 of these references are doubtful. 



(2848.) P. alpina, Linn.; Hook., PI. II., 246. 



Abundant on mountains and on the northern coast. Nain, coast of 

 Labrador; and Cape Chudleigh, Hudson Strait. (B. Bell.) New- 

 foundland. (Sir Joseph Banks.) Jupiter Eiver, and Gunn Eiver, 

 Anticosti; Eivi^re Ste. Anne des Monts, Gasp6, Q. (Macoun.) Mount 

 Albert, Gasp^, Q. (Porter.) Harbor Island, Mingan, Q. (St. Cyr.) 

 Iforth shore of Lake Superior. (Agassiz.) At Otter Head, and Pie 

 Island, Lake Superior; Point "Wilkins, Lake Wiraiipegoosis, Man. 

 (Macoun.) " The Twins," James Bay ; west coast of BCudson Bay. 

 (J. M. Macoun.) York Factory to Fort Churchill. (B. Bell.) Between 

 Eepulse Bay and Cape Lady Pelly. (Dr. Bae.) Eather abundant on 

 the Eocky Mountains, from the Kananaskis westward to Eoger's Pass, 

 in the Selkii-k Mountains ; Stewart's Lake Mountain, and Fort Mc- 

 Leod, B.C. ; summit of Mounts Benson and Arrowsmith, Vancouver 

 Island. (Macoun.) Eastern and western summits of North Kootanie 

 Pass, Eocky Mountains; Lake Lindeman, lat. 59° 40', B.C., and Pelly 

 Banks, lat. 62°, N.W.T. (Dawson.) From the elevated grounds of the 

 Saskatchewan to the Eocky Mountains, and Bear Lake. (Soaker, Ft.) 

 Pond's Bay, BaflEin's Bay. {Br. Walker.) Greenland. (Lange.) 



(2849.) D. alsodes, Gray, Man. Ed. V., 630. 



P. nemoralis, Terr., Fl. I., 111. 

 Dartmouth, near Halifax, N.S. (Sommers, Cat.) Between Florence- 



