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(2854.) p. cenisia, All. ; Yasey, Cat. Grasses U. S., 81, (1885.) 



P. arctica, R. Br.; Hook., Fl. II., 246, in part; Macoun, Cat. No. 2191. , 

 Pflexuosa, Wahl. Fl. Suec. (1824.) 

 Labrador ; Eocky Mountains to the Arctic sea-shore and islands in 

 every direction. (Hooker, FL) Ford's Harbor, Labrador ; CapeChud- 

 leigh, Nottingham Island, Digge's Island, and Mansfield Island, Hud- 

 son Strait. (iB. Bell.) Fort George, Little Charlton- Island, and " The 

 Twins," James Bay; west coast of Hudson Bay. (J. M. Macoun.') 

 Between Fort Churchill and Cape Lady Pelly, north of Hudson Bay. 

 {Dr. Hae.) Point Barrow, Alaska. (John Murdoch.) Cape Lisburne, 

 Kotzebue Sound, Ounalashka, and Sitka. (Rothr. Alask.) On the beds 

 of snow-slides on all the higher Eocky and Selkii-k mountains. 

 (Macoun.) Hills north of Finlayson Lake, N.W.T. (Dawson.) Green- 

 land. (Lange.) 



(2855.) P. OOMPRESSA, Linn. (English Blue Grass.) 



This is considered an excellent pasture grass, but is much inferior to 

 Poa pratensis. Truro, Annapolis and Kingston, N. S. (Macoun.) 

 Harvey, York Co. ; Fredericton Junction, and St. John; Bellisle, N.B. 

 (Fowler, Cat.) Magdalen Islands, N.S. (J. Richardson.) St. Charles 

 Eiver, Q. (St. Oyr.) Field, Ste. Anne des Monts Eiver, Gasp^, Q 

 (Macotin.) Vicinity of Tadousac, Q. (A. T. Drummond.) ISTeighbor- 

 hood of Ottawa. (Fletcher, Fl. Ott.) Common at Prescott, Ont, 

 (Billings.) Very common throughout central Ontario, in old pastures 

 and westward to Owen Sound. (Macoun.) Vicinityof Hamilton, Ont, 

 (Logie.) Sterile sandy soil, London, Ont. ; also Parry Sound, Georgian 

 Bay. (Burgess.) In pastures at Cedar Hill, and Cloverdale, Vancouver 

 Island. (Macoun.) 



(2856.) P. Californica, Vasey, Cat. Grasses U. S. 81, (1885.) 

 P. andina, Nutt in herb. Gray ; Macoun, Cat. No. 2185. 

 •Eragrostis Fendleri, Steud. Syn. Gram. 278. 

 Atropis Califomica, Munro. (MS.) 



Abundant on the mountain slopes along the Fi'aser Eiver, at Lytton, 

 and up the Thompson to Spence's Bridge, B.C. (Macoun.) 



(285'7.) P. cuspidata, Vasey & Scribner. 



Eather common on the higher slopes of the Eocky and Selkirk 

 mountains, and frequent in all the valleys. (Macoun.) 



(2858.) P. debilis, Torr. Bot. N. York, II., 459. 



Not uncommon in woods eastward. Eocky woods at Pirate's Cove, 

 Canso, N.S. (Macoun & Burgess.) Petitcodiac, N.B. (Fowler, Cat.) 



