CATALOGUE OF CANADIAN PLANTS. . 39*7 



glumes are 5-nerved, the intermediate nerves, however, indistinct, 

 excepting when the glumes are moistened and viewed by transmitted 

 light." (Scribner.) In thickets at Agassiz, B.C., on the mountain side, 

 1889. (Macoun.) 



(2904.) F. occidentalis, Hook.; Macoun, Cat. IV., 235. 

 On rocks, North Arm, Burrard Inlet, B.C., April 30, 1889. (Macoun.) 



(2907.) F. rubra, Linn., var. longearistata, Hack, in herb. 

 Scribner. 



" Your No. 88 is this variety, and is apparently the same as 15 of 

 Howell, named by Dr. Vasey F. ovina, L., vox. polyphylla. 



Ko. 87 is very near No. 88, but possibly distinct." {Scribner.) 

 No. 87 is from Shuswap Lake, and No. 88 from Yale, B.C. 



730. BROMUS. 



(29U.) B. Hookerianus, Tharber ; Macoun,. Cat. IV., 238. 

 In thickets at Agassiz and Spence's Bridge, B.C. 1889. {Macoun.) 



(2925.) B. TECTORDM, Linn. ; Macoun, Cat. IV., 240. 



Introduced in meadows and cultivated fields at Spence's Bridge, B.C. 

 1889. {Macoun.) 



736. ELYMUS. 



(3209.) E. nitidus, Vasey, Bull. Torr. Bot. Club, XIII., 120. 



" Culms 2\ to 3 feet high, rather stout and leafy, sterile shoots half 

 as long ; leaves erect rigid, scabrous, 6 to 8 inches long, 2 to 3 lines 

 wide, slender pointed ; ligule nearly obsolete ; sheaths scabrous ; spike 

 about 4 inches long, erect ; spikelets 1 to 2 at each joint, three to five- 

 flowered; empty glume 6 to 7 lines long, including the awn, the upper 

 one five-nerved, lower one three to four-nerved, scabrous on the nerves; 

 flowering glume about 5 lines long, with a fine scabrous awn of equal 

 length, obscurely five-nerved, smooth or nearly so, punctulate and 

 shining ; palet a little shorter, eiliate-scabrous on the nerve, The spike 

 is less thick than in E. Virginicus, and more compact than in E. 

 striatus." { Vasey,) Quite common in damp thickets at Agassiz, Yale 

 and Shuswap Lake, B.C. 1889. {Macoun.) 



