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and in a marshy meadow, Point aux Pins, Lake Superior ; Flat Eook 

 Portage, Lake Nipigon. (Macoun.) Lake Mistassini, N.B.T. (J. M. 

 Macoun.) Vicinity of Hamilton, Ont. (Logie.) Parry Sound, Geor- 

 gian Bay. (Burgess.) 



(2888.) C. DLSTANS, Wahl. ; Gray, Man. Ed. V., 628. 

 Atropis distans, Griseb. ; Ledeb. Fl. Eoss. IV., 388. 

 A careful examination of all our specimens from both the east or 

 Atlantic coast and the west coast, has satisfied us that this species is 

 not indigenous to Canada. All forms not introduced are placed under 

 the var. airoides or ff. maritima. On ballast heaps, Pictou, N. S. j 

 North Sydney, Cape Breton. {Macoun & Burgess.) Carleton, St. John, 

 ISr.B., 1811. (Fowler.) 



Var. airoides, Vasey, Cat Grasses U. S. 81, (1885.) 

 Glyceria airoides, Thufber, Bot. Wilkes Exp. 490. 

 Poa airoides, Nutt. ; Hook., Fl. II., 245. 

 P. fascicvlata, Hook., Fl. II., 245. 

 Very abundant in saline marshes throughout the interior west of 

 Winnipeg, at Moose Mountain, C6teau de Missouri, Eed Deer Lakes, 

 and Edmonton ; Castle Mountain, in Rocky Mountains. Seed evidently 

 brought from the prairie. (Macoun.) Fort Carleton. (Hooker, Fl.} 



(2889.) C. elongata, Trin.; Hook., Fl. IL, 248. 



Poa elongata, Terr., Fl. I., 112. i 



Bass Eiver, and Salmon Eiver, N.B. (Fowler, Cat.) Lower Tobique 

 Eiver, KB. (Sai/.) St. David, Charlotte Co., KB. ( From.) Titus- 

 ville, King's Co., N.B. (Brittain.) Pentecost Eiver, Q. (St. Cyr.} 



(2890.) C. fluitans, E. Br. ; Hook., Fl. IL, 248. 



Festuca fluitans, Linn. ; Michx., Fl. I., 66; Pursh, Fl. I., 84. 

 Very common in ditches and muddy places from the Atlantic to the 

 Pacific. In shallow water, Bass Eiver ; and at St. John, N.B. (Fowler, 

 Oat.) Common around Ottawa. (Fletcher, Fl. Ott.) Abundant at 

 Prescott Junction, Ont. (Billings.) Very common in ditches and 

 ponds througout central and western Ontario, and extending to Lake 

 Nipigon and the west side of Thunder Bay, and Kaministiqua Eiver. 

 (Macoun.) North shore of Lake Superior. (Agassiz.) Vicinity of 

 Hamilton. (Logic.) London, Toronto, Niagara Falls, Hatchley, and 

 Point aux Pins, Lake Brie. (Burgess.) Port Colborno, Lake Erie. 

 (McGill Coll. Herb.) Michipicotin Eiver, Ont.; and Nelson Eiver, 

 Keewatin. (M. Bell.) Throughout the northern part of the prairie 

 region, and south to the dry, treeless district ; rather common in the 



