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(16) Calamagrostis canadensis (Michx.) Beau v., Ess. Agrost. 15, 152, 157. 1812. 

 Based on Arundo canadensis Michx. 



Arundo canadensis Michx., Fl. Bor. Amer. 1: 73. 1803. Canada, Michaux. 

 Arundo agrostoides Pursh, Fl. Amer. Sept. 1: 86. 1814. New Jersey and 



Pennsylvania. 

 Calamagrostis mexicana Xutt., Gen. PL 1: 46. 1818. North America. 



"Agrostis mexicana? Persoon, Arundo agrostoides Pursh" are cited. Agros- 



tis mexicana L., in Persoon's work is Muhlenbergia mexicana, but Xuttall's 



description agrees with Pursh's. 

 Calamagrostis agrostoides Pursh; Spreng., Syst. Veg. 1: 252. 1825. Presumably 



based on Arundo agrostoides Pursh. 

 Cinna purshii Kunth, Rev. Gram. 1: 67. 1829. Based on Arundo agrostoides 



Pursh. 

 Arundo fissa Willd.; Steud., Xom. Bot. ed. 2. 1: 144. 1840, as synonym of 



Calamagrostis michauxii Trin. 

 Calamagrostis michauxii Trin.; Steud., Xom. Bot. ed. 2. 1: 250. 1840. 



Based on Arundo canadensis Michx. 

 Deyeuxia canadensis Munro; Hook, f., Linn. Soc. Trans. 23: 345. 1861. Pre- 



sumablv based on Arundo canadensis Michx., indirect citations given. See 



also, Vasev, Grasses U.S. 28. 1883; Agr. Grasses U.S. 69. pi. 59. 1884; 



Cassidy, Colo. Agr. Expt. Sta. Bull. 12: 4S. with plate. 1890. 

 Calamagrostis oregonensis BuckL, Acad. Xat. Sci. Phila. Proc. 1862: 92. 1863. 



Columbia River, Xuttall. 

 Calamagrostis columbiensis Xutt.; A. Gray, Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. Proc. 1862: 



334. 1863. Xame only [Columbia River, Xuttall}. 

 Calamagrostis canadensis var. robusta Vasev, in Wheeler, Rept. U.S. Survey 100th 



Merid. 6: 285. 1878. Twin Lakes, Colo., Expl. 100th Merid. [Wolf] 1093. 

 Calamagrostis pallida Vasev and Scribn.; Vasev, Contrib. U.S. Xatl. Herb. 3: 



79. 1892. Xot C. pallida C. MuelL, 1861. * Washington, S uksdorf in 1883. 

 Calamagrostis blanda Beal, Grasses X.Amer. 2: 349. 1896. Based on C. pallida 



Vasey and Scribn. 

 Calamagrostis canadensis acuminata Vasev; Shear and Rvdb., U.S.Dept.Agr., 



Div. Agrost. Bull. 5: 26. 1897. Georgetown, Cold., Shear 615 [type]; 



Montana, Idaho. 

 Calamagrostis canadensis campestris Kearney, U.S.Dept.Agr., Div. Agrost. Bull. 



11: 31. 1898. Louis Plain, Assiniboia, Macoun 56. 

 Calamagrostis alaskana Kearney, L'.S.Dept.Agr., Div. Agrost. Bull. 11: 32. 



1898. Yukon River, Alaska, Funston 157. 

 Calamagrostis atropurpurea Nash, Bull. N.Y. Bot. Gard. 2: 153. 1901. Daw- 

 son, Yukon Territory, R. S. Williams in 1899. 

 Calamagrostis anomala Suksdorf, Allg. Bot. Ztschr. 12: 43. 1906. Mount 



Paddo [Adams], Wash., Suksdorf 2824. 

 Calamagrostis langsdorfi var. acuminata Litw., Trav. Mus. Bot. Acad. Sci. 



Petrograd 18: 52. 1920. Based on C. canadensis var. acuminata Vasey. 

 Calamagrostis canadensis var. pallida Stebbins, Rhodora 32: 45. 1930. Based 



on C. pallida Vasey and Scribn. 

 Calamagrostis scribneri var. imberbis Stebbins, Rhodora 32: 46. 1930. Based 



on C. anomala Suksdorf "not Steud., in LechL, Berb. Am. Aust. 56. (1857)," 



a name only. 

 Calamagrostis canadensis var. macouniana Stebbins, Rhodora 32: 41. 1930. 



Based on Deyeuxia macouniana Vasey. 

 Deyeuxia macouniana Vasey, Bot. Gaz. 10: 297. 1885. Northwest Territory, 



Macoun. 

 Calamagrostis macouniana Vasey, Contrib. U.S. Xatl. Herb. 3: 81. 1892. 



Based on Deyeuxia macouniana Vasey. 

 Calamagrostis canadensis var. scabra (Presl) Hitchc, Amer. Jour. Bot. 21: 



135. 1934. Based on C. scabra Presl. 

 Calamagrostis scabra Presl, Rel. Haenk. 1: 234. 1830. ' Xootka Sound, 



Vancouver Island, Haenke. 

 Deyeuxia preslii Kunth, Rev. Gram. 1: Sup. XX. 1830. Based on Calama- 

 grostis scabra Presl. 

 This variety has been referred to Calamagrostis langsdorfi (Link) Trin. by 

 many American authors. A fragment of the type of Arundo langsdorfi Link, sent 

 by Dr. Pilger from the Berlin Herbarium, shows that it is not an America: - 

 cies. The rachilla is very minute or wanting, the spikelets are smaller than in C. 

 scabra, the glumes are thinner, showing the nerves distinctly, and the blades are 



