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stocks, and with F. rubra all those which have. Eather common on 

 the Atlantic coast, and apparently indigenous. Newfoundland. {Sir 

 Joseph Banks.) At Bedford, Annapolis, and McNah's Island, Halifax 

 JIarbor. (Macoun.) Magdalen Islands, N.S. (McKay. J. Richardson.) 

 Pennant, Halifax Co., N. S. (Sommers, Gat.) Coast of Labrador. 

 (Mc frill Coll. Serb.) Eichibucto, Shediac, and Moncton, N.B. ; scarce. 

 (Fowler, Cat.) Ellis Bay, Anticosti. (St. Cyr.) Gasp^ Basin, Gasp^ 

 Co., Q. ; Wellington Beach, Lake Ontario ; dry fields, near Trenton, 

 and Port Hope, Ont. ; very abundant at Queenston Heights ; and in 

 many places around Lake Superior. (Macoun.) West coast of Hud- 

 son Bay. (J. M. Macoun.) Not uncommon on gravelly slopes in the 

 Eocky and Selkirk mountains. (Macoun.) 



(2900.) F. ELATIOR, Linn. ; Pursh, Fl. I., 83. 



Cultivated on lawns and in some meadows. Meadows at Windsor, 

 and in fields at Halifax, N.S. (Macoun.) In fields atPredericton, N.B. 

 (Fowler, Cat.) Beauport, Q. (St. Cyr.) In meadows at London, Ont. 

 (Burgess.) Vicinity of Hamilton, Ont. (Logic.) Moose Factory, 

 James Bay. (Cottar & Dr. Hoyden.) 



(2901.) F. microstachya, Nutt.; Watson, Bot. King Exp. Y., 388. 

 Yery common on dry gravelly slopes throughout southern Yancou- 

 ver Island, on all the dry slopes at Nanaimo, Goldstream, and Alberni. 

 (Macoun.) Cadboro Bay, near Victoria, Vancouver Island. (Fletcher.) 

 Sooke, south-west of Vancouver Island. (Dawson.) 



Var. divergens, Thurb.; Yasey, Cat. Grasses U. S. 90, (1885.) 

 Very abundant on gravellj^ slopes on the mountains around Gold- 

 stream, and an dry locks near Wellington Mine, Departure Bay, Van- 

 couver Island. (Macoun.) 



Var. pauciflora, Scribner; Vasey, Cat. Grasses U.S. 90, (1885.) 

 Found in some abundance at Stewart's Lake, northern British 

 Columbia. (Macoun ) 



(2902.) F. Mtcrus, Linn. ; Michx., Fl. I., 66 ; Pursh, Fl. I., 83 ; 

 Hook., Fl. II., 249. 

 Introduced on all dry soils in the southern part of Vancouver Island, 

 chiefly under oaks. Abundant at Cedar Hill, and Nanaimo. (Macoun.) 

 Cadboro Bay, near Victoria, Vancouver Island. (Fletcher.) 



(2903.) F. nutans, Willd. ; Pursh, Fl. L, 84. 

 Halifax, N.S. (Burgess.) Lower Norton, Belleisle, and Bairdsville, N.B. 



