236 GEOLOGICAL STJRVET OF CANADA. 



feet, Vancouver Island. (Macoun.) On the Arctic sea-coast and is- 

 lands; and Eocky Mountains. {Moolcer, Fl.') Eae Eiver, Arctic coast- 

 {Br. Rae.) 



Var. polyphylla, Vasey, Cat. Grasses U. S. 90, (1885.) 

 A fine tall grass growing on hillsides at Goldstream and Nanaimo, 

 Vancouver Island. (Macoun.) 



Yar. vivipara, Gray, Man. Ed. V., 633. 



Common along the coast of Anticosti, at Jupiter, Eiver. (Macoun.) 

 Severn Eiver, Keewatin. (J. M. Macoun.) Cumberland House, Bear 

 Lake, and Arctic sea-coast. (Hooker, Fl.) 



(2906.) F. RichardsonI, Hook., PI. II., 250. 

 Arctic sea-coast. (Hooker, Fl.) Alaska. ( Yasey.) 



(2907.) F. rubra, Linn. ; Hook., PI. II., 250. 



All forms of this species have running root-stocks. Cape Porteau, 

 Yarmouth, N.S., and North Sydney, Cape Breton. (Macoun & Burgess.) 

 EiviSre de Brig, Anticosti, and along the Gasp6 coast, near Pox Eiver. 

 (Macoun.') London, Ont., and Emerson, Man. (Burgess.) Xear Vic- 

 toria, Vancouver Island. (Fletcher.) Abundant along the whole coast 

 of Vancouver Island, from Bsquimalt to Qualicum. (Macoun.) Sitka, 

 and Kotzebue Sound. (Rothr. Alask.) Bartlett Bay, and Sitka, Alaska. 

 (Meehan.) Queen Charlotte Islands. (Dawson.) 



Var. villosa, Vasey. (MS.) 



Fesiuca rubra, var. I., Hook. Fl. II., 250. 



North Pork of Old Man Eiver, Eocky Mountains. (Dawson.) 

 Apparently not rare in the foot hills of the Eocky Mountains. (Macoun.) 



Besides the above variety, we have vars. genuinea, longiseta, and 

 planifolia, Vasey, which may be distinct enough to separate them from 

 the species. All are common on the coast of Vancouver Island, near 

 Victoria. 



(2908.) F. scabrella, Torr.; Hook., Fl. II., 252. (Bunch Grass.) , 



F. Macounii. Vasey ; Macoun, Cat. No. 2204. 

 Melica HallU, Vasey, Coult. Bot. Gaz. VI., 296. 



Summit of Mount Albert, Shickshock Mountains, Gasp^, Q. ; Moose 

 Mountain Creek, and Souris Plain, Assiniboia. (J. M. Macoun.) Abun- 

 dant around Brandon, and west to Moose Mountain and Moose Jaw ; com- 

 mon at Calgary, and westward in the foot-hills at Morley ; on moun- 

 tains at Spence's Bridge, B.C. (Macoun.) Middle Pork of Old Man 



