Contributions from the Herbarium of the Geological Survey of Canada. (By Permission of thie Director.) By James M. Macoun, Curator of the Herbarium. /;,M,,//MM /,.,;;, ,-, "^r,.,„ i>,rruce, Ont., 1895. (A. Y. Masscy.) Eastern limit. Not before collected in Canada east of the Eocky Mountains. Ambrosia tkifida, L. ^Along the Can. Pac. Ey., at Revelstoke, B.C.; barn-yards near Victoria, Vancouver Island, Herb. No. 437. {John Macoun.) Probably introduced in both cases. Not re- corded west of Manitoba. The Cypress Hills specimens referred here in Prof. Macoun's Catalogue of Can. Plants are var. integrifolia. KUDBECKIA PINNATA, Vent. Vicinity of Sandwich, Ont. (JoJmMacoiin. Alcx.Wherry.) New to Canada. MiCROSERis NUTANS, Gray. Amongst grass on hillsides at Deer Park and Sproat, Columbia Eiver, B.C., 1890. {John Macoicn.) Credited to British Columbia by Gray, but not before collected by Canadian botanists. Crepis runcinata, Torr. & Gray. . Dampish spots at Eevelstoke, B.C., 1890. {John Macoicn.) Not recorded west of Eocky Mountains. Crepis intermedia, Gray, var. gracilis, Gray. Dry slopes at Spence's Bridge, B.C., 1889. {John Macoun.) New to Canada. Lobelia Kalmii, L. Eocky shores of Kootanie Lake at Ainsworth, B.C. {John Macoun.) Western limit. Contributions to Canadiafi Botany. 9 Specularia perfoliata, a. DC. Sproat, Columbia River, B.C. (Dr. Geo. M. Dawson.) Ainsworth, Kootanie Lake, B.C., and Agassiz, B.C. {John Macon ii.) Not before recorded from interior of British Columbia. Heterocodon rariflorum, Nutt. Grassy slopes at Sproat, Columbia River, B.C. {John Macoun.) Not before recorded from mainland of British Columbia. PtEROSPOrA ANDROMEDA, Nutt. Wooded mountain slopes west of Lake Okanagan, B.C., 1890. {Jas. McEvoy.) Not before recorded from main- land of British Columbia. Gextiana Douglasiana, Bong. Mount Head, Burrough Bay, B.C., 1894. {H. W. E. Canavan.) Yakoun Lake, Queen Charlotte Islands, 1895. {Dr. C. F. Newconibe.) Gentiana humilis, Stev. On the nortli side of an old creek bed on the south bank of the Bow River at Langevin Bridge, Alberta, 1894 {J. J. Morgan.) New to Canada. Gentiana linearis, Froel. Not rare in the interior of Labrador from the East Main River on the west to the Hamilton River on the east. {A. P. Loiv.) Phlox maculata, L. RavineatGranby, Que., 1892. {Wm. Scott.) High Falls, Lievre River, Que., 1895. {R B. Whyte.) New to Canada. 10 Canadian Record of Science. BaRTSIA ALI'INA, L. Lake Petitsikapau, Hamilton River, Labrador, 300 miles from the coast. {A. P. Lovj.) Not before recorded from interior of Labrador. Brunella vulgaris, L. Attikonak Branch, Hamilton River, Labrador, 1894. {A. P. Loic.) Not before recorded from Labrador. QuERCUS PRINUS, L. ' A few^ trees grov^^ near the St. Lawrence River at Lans- downe, Ont. Noted by the Rev. C. J. Young in 1894, fruiting specimens collected in 1895. This is the only authentic record for this species east of Niagara. The undulately-crenate leaves of this species, pale and minutely downy beneath, make it very easy of determination. Speci- mens from the Bay of Quinte are Qiiercus Muhlenhergii, (Q. prinoides of Macoun's Cat. of Can. Plants.) TOFIELDIA GLUTINOSA, Willd. Attikonak Branch, Hamilton River, Labrador, 1894. (A. P. Low.) Not before recorded from Labrador. DULICHIUM SPATHACEUM, Pers. Craigellachie, Eagle Pass, B.C. ; Stanley Park, Van- couver, B.C. (JohnMacoun.) Not before recorded between the Saskatchewan and Vancouver Island. Carex sciRPOiDEA, Michx. On the route between Sandy Lake and Lake Michi- kamau, Labrador, 1894. (A. P. Low.) Not before recorded from Labrador. Carex capillaris, Linn. On the route between Sandy Lake and Lake Michi- Contrihutions to Canadian Botany, 11 kamau, Labrador, 1894 {A. P. Lorn.) Not before recorded from Labrador. ALOrECURUS GENICULATUS, Lillll., Var. ARISTIJLATUS, Muiiro. On the route between Sandy Lake and Lake Michi- kaniau, Labrador, 1894. {A. P. Loin.) Not before recorded from Labrador. MuxROA sgrARROSA, Torr. Near the police barracks. Medicine Hat, Assa., 1894. {John Macoun, Herb. No. 7452.) a.l Ou^r>ry Contributions from tiie Herbarium of the Geological Survey of Canada. (By Permission of the Director.) By James M. Macoun, Curator of the Herbarium. VIII. Reprinted from the Canadian Record of Science, October, 1895. " Reprinted frovi the Canadian Record o/ Science, Ocfoher, 1895." Contributions to Canadian Botany. By Jame.s M. Macoun. VIIl. Aquilegia Jonesii, Parry. High slopes of Sheep Mountain, Waterlon Lake, llocky Mountains, Lat. 49° 05', July 29th, 1895. (John Macoun, Herb. No. 10,029.) New to Canada. Berberis >«:rvosa, Pursh. Not rare in deep, moist woods in Trinity Valley, between Mabel Lake and Enderby, B.(>\, 1895. (Jas. McEvoy, Herb. No. 10,133.) Not before recorded east of Yale, B.C. Berberis AguiFOLiUM, Pursh. In open thickets, Waterton Lake, Lat. 49° 05', llocky Mountains, 1895. {John Macoun. Herb. No. 10,267.) Eastern limit in Canada. Papaver Pyrexaicum, L. A single specimen collected by Dr. G. M. iJawson in the South Kootanie Pass, Kooky Mountains, 1883. Pe-dis- covered in 1895 by Prof. John Macoun on Sheep Moun- tain, Waterton Lake, Rocky Mountains, alt. 7,500 feet, Lat. 49° 05'. Herb. No. 10,269. New to America. Lksquerella Ll'dovk'iana, Wats. Specimens collected at Medicine Hat, Assa., by I'rof. .lohn Macoun, in 1895, (Herb. No. 10,308) are the only specimens in our herbarium that can be referred here. The pubescence of the oblanceolate radical leaves is con- spicuously stellate. 2 Canadian Reeord of Science. LESgUERELLA LUDOVICIANA, WaTS., var. ARENOSA, Wats. Vesicaria Ludoviciana, Macouii, Cat. Can. Plants, Vol. 1., p. 54, in part, and Vol. L, p. 490. From Western Manitoba to the Saskatchewan. The reference under L. Ludoviciana, Wats., var. arenosa, Wats., Macoun Cat. Can. Plants, Vol. II., p. 305, should go with L. arctica, Wat. Sisymbrium virgatum, Nutt. In gravel amongst bushes, Police Point, Medicine Hat, Assa. In fruit May 31st, 1894. Herb. No. 3,069; prairies, 12-Mile Lake, Wood Mountain, Assa., June 6th, 1895. Herb. No. ] 0,007 ; meadows, Sucker Creek, Cypress Lake, Assa., 1895. HerU No. 10,006. {John Maconn.) New to Canada. The Canadian specimens have longer pedicels and pods and are more paniculately branched than those from the Rocky Mountains in the L^nited States, but Dr. Robinson, who examined our specimens, has been unable to detect a single signiticant or constant character to separate the plants from the two regions. Arabis Drummondii, Gray: Macoun, Cat. Can. Plants' Vol. L, p. 43, in part. A. Lyallii, Macoun, Cat. Can. Plants, Vol. I., p. 43 ; and Vol. I., p. 487, in part : J. M. Macoun, Can. Rec. Science, Vol. VI., p. 145. From the Cypress Hills, Assiniboia, west to the Gold Range in British Columbia. Our specimens are from Cypress Hills, Assa. ; Sheep Mountain, Waterton Lake, Itocky Mountains ; mountains north of Devil's Lake, and at Kicking Horse Lake, Rocky Mountains. {John Macoun.) Maple Creek, Assa. ; Toad Mountain, Kootanie Lake, B.C.; Mount Queest, Shuswap Lake, B.C, {Jas. 31. Macoun ) Rocky Mountains, {Dmmmond.) CoiitriI)i(fio/is to Canadiau Botatiif. .'» Ahabis LvALLii, Wals. Our specimens of this species are from West Summit of North Kootanie Pass. {Dr. G. M. Daivson.) Shore of Waterton Lake, Eocky Mountains ; mountains north of Devil's Lake, Eocky Mountains. {John Macoun.) Lookout Mountain, Big Bend of Columbia Eiver, B.C. {Prof. Coleman.) Viola Howellii, Gray. V. canina, L. var. si/lvestris, Macoun, Cat. Can. Plants, Vol I., p. 63 in part. V. canina, L. var. loncjipes, Macoun, Cat. Can. Plants, Vol. I., p. 493 in part. In woods, New Westminster, B.C. : Cedar Hill, Shawni- gan Lake and Nanaimo, Vancouver Island. {John Macoun.) Vancouver Island {Streets, vide Syn. Fl. North Am. Vol. L, p. 202.) Viola orbiculata, Geyer ; re-described and figured in Contr. from U.S. Herbarium, Vol. III., No. 4, p. 214. V. sarnientosa, Macoun, Cat. Can. Plants, Vol. I., p. 493 in part. V. sarmentosa Dougl. var. orbicidata, Eobinson, Syn. Fl. N. Am., Vol. L, p. 199. Western Summit of North Kootanie Pass, Eocky Mountains ; Dean or Salmon Eiver, B.C. {Dr. G. M. Daivson) Kicking Horse Lake, Eocky Mountains ; sum- mit of Selkirk Mountains, B.C.; Eevelstoke, B.C.; moun- tains near Ainsworth, Kootanie Lake, B.C. {John Macoun.) Viola sa/rmentosa Dougl. seems in Canada to be contined to the Coast Eange and Vancouver Island, all our speci- mens from the interior being plainly V. orbiculata, Geyer. The two plants have always been separated in our herba- rium, though all were named V. sarmentosa. 4 ('(in ad Ian liccoril of Scunce. Arenauia congesta, Nutt. Open prairies. Sweet ( Jrass Hills, Alberta, just north of the International Boundary, 1895. {John Macoun.) Not before recorded from Canada. Claytonia megarrhiza. Parry. Additional references for this species are : summit of Saddle Mountain, Banff, Eocky Mountains ; summit of Sheep Mountain, Waterton Lake, Lat. 49° 05', Eocky Mountains, Herb. No. 10,091. {John Macoun.) Hypericum kalmianum, L. ; Macoun. Cat, Can. Plants, Vol. I., p. 84. On a small rocky island in the Ottawa Eiver, Township Clarendon, Pontiac Co., Que. In Hower July 24th, 1895. {Roht. H. Coioley.) Nemopanthes Canadensis, DC. Banks of west branch of Nottaway Eiver,. N.E. Ter., 1895. {Dr. E. Bell.) LupiNUS PUSILLUS, Pursh. L. Kingii, Macoun, Cat. Can. Plants, Vol. I., 10^3. Dry sand hills, ^ve miles west of the northern elbow of the South Saskatchewan ; Crane Lake, Assa., Herb. No. 4,068 ; Police Point, Medicine Hat, Assa., Herb. No. 4,069 ; South of Wood Mountain, Assa. ; Many Berries Creek, Milk Eiver, Assa., Herb. No. 10,412 ; Milk Eiver, Assa., Herb. No. 10,414. {John Macoun.) Along the Belly Eiver, Alberta. {Dr. Geo. M. Daivson.) LupiNUS MINIMUS, Dougl. ; Macoun, Cat. Can. Plants, Vol. L, p. 103. Summit of Sheep Mountain, Waterton Lake, Lat. 49° 05", alt. 7,500 ft., July 31st, 1895. {John Macoun, Herb. No. Contributions to Canadian Botany. 5 10,413.) The only authentic Canadian record, as it is doubtful whether it was found by Douglas north of the boundary. CiCEH AKIETINU-M, L. Vicia (?), Macoun, Cat. Can. Plants, Vol. I., p. 512. In dry soil at Chinaman's lianch, above Spence's Bridge, Thompson lUver, B.C., Aug. 1883. (Jas. Fktcher.) Intro- duced in wool at Wingliam, Ont., 1891. (J. A Morton.) A native of Bengal. Spiraea betulifolia, Pall. Peel's Pdver, Mackenzie liiver Delta, July 14th, 1892. (Miss E. Taylor.) Specimens from Qualco Lake, B.C., collected by Dr. G. M. Dawson, are doubtfully referred here. These are the only specimens of this species in our herbarium. Spir-EA lucida, Dougl. ; Pittonia, Vol. II., p. 221. S. hetulifoUa, Macoun, Cat. Can. Plants, Vol. I., p. 126, in part. Common in thickets and on hillsides, from the Kocky Mountains westward. Our specimens are from Kootanie Pass, Kocky Mountains. {Dr. G. M. Datcwn) Valleys of the Rocky Mountains. (Drummond) Waterton Lake, Lat. 49^ 05', liocky Mountains ; Bow River Pass and Kicking Horse Lake, Rocky Mountains ; Sproat and Deer Park, Columbia River, B.C.; Sicamous, B.C. ; Spence's Bridge, B.C. (John Macoun.) Red Deer, Alberta. {II. II. Gaetz.) Spir.ea arbuscula, Greene, Erytheea, Vol. III., p. 63. S. betulifolia, Pall., var. rosea, Gray ; Macoun, Cat. Can. Plants, Vol. L, p. 513. In woods and thickets at the summit of the Selkirk Range, B.C. {Jo/ni Macoun. Jas Fletcher.) () Canadian Record of Science, Neillia oit LI folia, Wats. Banks of West Hrancli of Nottaway Iliver, N. E. Ter., 1895. {Dr. II Be//.) POTEXTILLA OVIXA. P. (/issecta, var. pinnatiserfa, Macoiin, Cat. Can. Plants, Vol. I., p. olT. Low, tufted, the nmlticipitous ligneous caudex partly subterranean and clothed with the persistent bases of the leaves : leaves 1 J to 4 inches long of from 4 to 7 pairs of pinnte, these parted into 2 or 3 linear pinn?e, villous-pilose at apex and sparingly so on both surfaces. Flowering stems scarcely leafy, 4 to 6 inches high, the flowers on slender pedicels an inch or two long ; achenes few, obliquely obovoid, smooth and glabrous. ' High slopes of Castle Mountain, Rocky Mountains, Herb. Xo. 7,242 ; crevices of rocks at The Mound, BanfJ', Rocky Mountains, Herb. No. 7,235 ; Sheep Mountain, Waterton Lake, Lat. 49° 05', Rocky Mountains, Herb. Xos. 10,488, 10,489. {John 3Iacotm.) Though considered a variety of P. P/attensis by Dr. Watson, Prof. Macoun always believed the Rocky Moun- tain plant to be quite distinct from that species, and more nearly related to P. dissecta. Later he came to the con- clusion that it way a good species, and in this opinion he is sustained by Dr. Edw. L. Greene, who has examined the specimens collected on Sheep Mountain in 1895. The above preliminary description is based on his diagnosis. Prof. Macoun has seen the specimens labelled P. Plattensis^ var. jmmatisecta in the Grey Herbarium, and believes them to be all referable here. Callitriche hamulata, Klirtz. Dr. Morong having examin to this species (Macoun Cat. Can. Plants, Vol. IL, p. 322,) Dr. Morong having examined the specimens referred Confrihutlons to Canadian Botany. 7 pronounced tlieni to be C. verna, L. We have no autlientic Canadian specimens of C. hamulata. LUDWIGIA PALUSTKIS, Ell. Wet places, Sproat Lake, Vancouver Island, 1887. {John Macowi.) Xot before recorded west of the Sas- katchewan. GaYOPHYTUM RAM0SIS81MLTM, T. & (J. Near Dog Lake, Okanagan Valley, B.C., 1895. {Ja.i<. Fletcher.) New to Canada. SANICULA. Following Mr. Bicknell's revision of the eastern species of this genus, our herbarium specimens have been arranged as below : — 8. Marylaxdica, L. From New couver Island From New Brunswick and Nova Scotia west to Van- S. GREGARIA, Bicknell, Bull. Torr. Bot. Club, Vol. XXIL, p. 354. Near Belleville, Out. iJolin Macoun) Wingham, (Jut. {J. A. Morto7i.) 8. Canadensis, L. We have, in our herbarium, no specimens of this species as diagnosed by Mr. Bicknell, though it may be common enough throughout Eastern Canada. S. TRIFOLIATA, Bicknell, Bull. (Torr. Bot. Club, Vol. XXIL, p. 360. » Casselman, Out. ; Hastings Co., Out. ; Amherstburg, (Jnt. {John Macoun.) This Sanicala, with conspicuously «S (anadian Record of Sricuce.. trifoliate, petioled cauliiie leaves, has been generall\- taken in Canada to be tyi)ical >S'. Canademis, [.. OSMORlilllZA BREVISTVLIS, DC. From Prince Edward Island west to Lake Winnipeg. OSMOKKHI/A LOXOISTVLIS, DC. From Nova Scotia west to the Saskatchewan. OSMORRHIZA XUDA, Torr. From the Eastern slope of the Rocky Mountains west to Vancouver Island. OSMORRHIZA OCCIDEXTALIS, Torr. Mountain woods at Ainsworth, Kootanie Lake, B.C., alt, 5,000 ft., 1890. (John Macoim.) A new station for this plant. CicuTA Californica, Gray. New Westminster, B.C*. : Ainsworth, Kootanie Lake B.C. {John Macoun.) Not before recorded from British Columbia mainland. Carum Carui, L. Waste places near the brick-yard at Banff, Rocky Mountains. (John Macoun.) Ligu.sticl'M Grayi, C. & E. : Macoun, Cat. Can. Plants, Vol. II., p. :]27. Woods on the mountains at Ainsworth, Kootanie Lake, B.C., alt. 5,000 feet. {John Macoun.) LiGUSTiCLTM 8C0PLTL0RUM, Gray. Specimens collected by Prof. John Macoun, at Roger's Pass, Selkirk Mountains, B.C., in 1890, have been doubt- Contrihittions to Canadian Botaiii/. 9 fully referred here by Prof. Coulter. Not before recorded from Canada. Helianthus GR0SSE-8EK11ATUS, Martens. Along the Grand Trunk Railway, near Stamford, Out., 1895. {K Cameron.) Introduced from United States. Cladothamnus CAMPANi'LATUs, Greene, Ery thjiea. Vol. III., p. 65. Shrub 3 to 5 feet high, with few and stoutish ascending branches ; leaves lanceolate, 1 to 3 inches long, tapering to a short petiole, which, together with the veins beneath, is more or less strigose-hirsute with red hairs ; flowers solitary or in pairs or threes, from lateral buds, on pedicels J inch long, those setose-hispid with red hairs ; sepals ovate-oblong, densely ciliate with short gland-tipped hairs ; corolla light salmon colour, campanulate^ the petals joined at base into a short tube ; anthers opening only by a pair of large round terminal pores. Credited to British Columbia by Dr. Greene, but all our specimens, both from Vancouver Island and the mainland, are C pyrolceflorus, Bong. The new species should be looked for by collectors in British Columbia on the higher mountains of the Coast Range. We have specimens of C.pyrolmfloriis collected at Sitka by Bongard himself. ViNCA MAJOR, Linn. In fields near Victoria, Vancouver Island, 1893. {John Macoun.) Escaped from gardens. Gentiana platypetala, Griseb. Mount Rapho, Bradford Inlet, Lat. 56° 18', Long. 13r36', alt. 4,050 ft., July 7th, 1894. {H. W.E. Cammin.) Yakoun Lake, Queen Charlotte Islands, 1895. {Dr. CF. Neiccombe.) Xew to Canada. 1 0 C((/i(u/ia/i Ixcroi'd of Scieficf. Mknyantiiks ('Risi'A-dAi.Li, M(3nzies. Port Siinpsoii, li.C, IHOo. {Jas. McEiX)ij.) Shore of Yakouri Ljike, Queen Cliarlotte Islands, 1895. {Dr. C. F. Neivco7nhe.) MyOSOTIS CyESriTOSA, Schultz. Cartwright, Ont., 1891. (W. Scott.) New to Canada. SOLANUM NIGRUM, L., var. VILLOSUM, Mill. A new station for this plant is New Westminster, B.C. 1895. (A. J. Rill) Verbascum thaspus, L. Waste plates, Eevelstoke, B.C. ; A^ernon, Lake Okana- gan, B.C., and Sannach Eoad, near Victoria, Vancouver Island. {John Macoitn.) Not before recorded west of Ontario. Verbascum blattaria, L. Waste places, Eevelstoke, B.C. {John Macoitn.) On the sea shore at Union Mines, Coniox, Vancouver Island. {Anderson.) Not before recorded west of Ontario. Chelone glabra, Linn. Banks of west branch of Nottaway Eiver, N.E. Ter., 1895. (Br. R Bell.) E UN AN us Breweri, Greene. Amongst grass on hillsides at Sproat, Columbia Eiver, 1890. (John Macoun, Herb. No. 10,307.) New to Canada. Determined by Dr. Greene. Thymus Cham^drys, Fries. Stanley Park, Vancouver, B.C., September, 1895. (Rev. H. H. Gov'en.) T. Serpyllum, L., is not uncommon in Contrihutions to Canadian Botany. 11 Eastern America, but this species has not been before recorded from this country. « Calamintha clinopodium, Benth. New Westminster, B.C., 1895. {A. J. Hill.) Not recorded west of Manitoba. Probably introduced. P.OGONIA 0PHI0GL0SS0IDE8, Ker. In bogs, near small lakes at head of Gatineau lliver, Que. {Dr. JR. Bell.) Allium Geyeri, Wats. Gravelly banks, Botanie, west of Spence's Bridge, B.C., 1890. (Jas. McEvoy.) Found on Vancouver Island, but not before on mainland of British Columbia. Eeferred by mistake to Allium Nevii, Wats., in No. II. of these papers. Allium acuminatum, Hook. On gravelly banks, Botanie, west of Spence's Bridge, B.C., 1890. (Jas. McEcoy.) Not before recorded from mainland of British Columbia. Carex festiva, Dew., var. gracilis, Olney. Borders of coulees. Cypress Hills, Assa., 1894. {John Macoun, Herb. No. 7,396.) Not before recorded east of British Columbia. 5* nx/-v^-vn Contributions from tiie Herbarium of the Geological Survey of Canada. (By Permission of the Director.) By James M. Macoun, Curator of the Herbarium. IX. Reprinted from the Cauadian Record of Science, Jan. and April, 1896. V v^^S'i^ *^ Reprinted from the Canadian Record of Science, Jan. and April, 1896." Contributions to Canadian Botany. By James M. Macoun. IX. Delphinium simplex, Dougl. About two miles above the mouth of the Kootanie River, B.C., 1889. (John Macoun, Herb. No. 10,597.) New to Canada. Alyssum calycinum, L.; Macoun, Cat. Can. Plants, Vol. I., p. 53. Near Blackwell Station, Lambton Co., Ont. {T. C. Wheatley,) 1 Trans. R. Soc. Can. XII. iii. 30. 40 Canadian Record of Science. POLYGALA INCARNATA, L. Walpole Island, Lambton Co., Ont., 1894 ( C. K. Dodge.) New to Canada. POLYGALA SENEGA, L., var. LATIFOLIA, T. & G. Georgian Bay, Lake Huron, 1889. {J. M. Dickson.) New to Canada. Sagina decumbens, Torr. & Gray; Macoim, Cat. Can. Plants. Vol. I., p. 79. Hillsides, Farewell Creek, Cypress Hills, Assa. Herb. No. 11,710.^ {John Macoun.) Desmodium marilandicum, F. Boott. Near Blackwell Station, Lambton Co., Ont., 1893. (r. C. Wheatley.) New to Canada. D.ESMODIUM ROTUNDIFOLIUM, DC. ; Macoun, Cat. Can. Plants, Vol. I., p. 118. Niagara Falls, Ont. {R. Cameron.) Near Blackwell Station, Lambton Co., Ont. {C, K. Dodge.) ViCIA SEPIUM, L. In ditches in a ravine west of Hamilton, Ont. {J. M, Dickson.) New to Canada. Introduced. LuDWiGiA POLYCARPA, Short & Peter. Since recording in Part I. of these papers the occur- rence of this species, at Amherstburg, it has been reported from the vicinity of Sarnia by Mr. Chas. K. Dodge. Epilobium Watsoni, Barbey. New Westminster, B.C. {A. J. Hill. Rev. H. H. Gowen.) New to Canada. 1 Whenever herbarium numbers are given, they are the numbers under which speci- mens have been distributed from the herbarium of the Geological Survey of Canada. Contributions to Canadian Botany. 41 Lytheum salicaria, L. In No. VIL of these papers, it was stated that this species had not been recorded from Eastern Ontario until found at Ottawa, in 1895, by Mr. Tourchat. This was a mistake. It had been before collected at Ottawa by Mr. William Scott, and was recorded in Flora Ottawaensis, p. 32. Pastinaca sativa, L. Spence's Bridge, B.C. ; common in old gardens and waste places on Vancouver Island. {John Macoun.) Not recorded west of Manitoba.^ Peucedanum eurycarpum, C. & E.; Macoun, Cat. Can. Plants, Vol. I., p. 329. From the east end of tlie Cypress Hills west to the Eocky Mountains, 1894, 1895. Herb. Nos. 4,963 and 10,692-3-4-5. {John Maconn.) Not before recorded east of Eocky Mountains. Peucedanum triternatum, Nutt. ; Macoun, Cat. Can. Plants, Vol. L, pp. 187 and 536 ; and Vol. II., p. 329. Milk Eiver, Assa. Herb. No. 10,688. {John Maconn.) Eastern limit. Daucus carota, L. Common in meadows on Vancouver Island, and appa- rently naturalized. CoRNUS PUBESCENS, Nutt. ; Macoun, Cat. Can. Plants, Vol. I., pp. 191 and 538. Donald, Columbia Eiver, B.C. ; north of Pass Creek, Sproat, B.C. {John Macoun.) CoRXUS PUBESCENS, Nutt., var. Californica, C. & E. Woods at Eevelstoke, Columbia Eiver,B.C.,1890. {John Macoun.) Only Canadian station. ' The geographical limits given in these i)ai)ers refer to Canada only. 42 Canadian Record of Science. Nyssa aquatica, L. N. midtifiora, Wang. ; Macoun, Cat. Can. Plants, Vol. I., p. 192. Many fine trees of this species grow at Queenston Heights, and near Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ont., but it has apparently never been recorded from that vicinity. Adoxa Moschatellina, L. ; Macoun, Cat. Can. Plants, Vol. I., p. 193. Athabasca Eiver, below the Cascades. {Miss E. Taylor.) Athabasca Eiver, Lat. 56°. {Jas. M. Macoun.) Sambucus glauca, Nutt. ; Macoun, Cat. Can. Plants, Vol. II.. p. 331. In woods at Deer Park, Lower Arrow Lake, Columbia Eiver, B.C. {John Macoun.) Eastern limit. Viburnum dentatum, L. ; Macoun, Cat. Can. Plants, Vol. L, pp. 194 and 538. Foster's Flats, Niagara Eiver, Ont. {John Macoun.) Near Sarnia, Ont. {C.K. Dodge.) Viburnum Opulus, L. ; Macoun, Cat. Can. Plants, Vol. I., p. 195. Prof. Macoun, in his Catalogue, makes the Saskatchewan the western limit of this species. We have now specimens from Sproat, B.C. ; Sicamous, B.C. ; and Agassiz, B.C. {John Macoun.) LoNiCERA CILIOSA, Poir. ; Macoun, Cat. Can. Plants, Vol. L, p. 196. Woods at Sproat and Deer Park, Columbia Eiver, B.C.; Yale, B.C. {John Macoun.) LoNiCERA Utahensis, Wats. ; Macoun, Cat. Can. Plants, Vol. L, p.540. Sheep Mountain, Waterton Lake, Eocky Mountains ; Contributions to Canadian Botany. 43 Deer Park, Lower Arrow Lake, B.C. ; Eevelstoke, B.C. ; Sicamous, B.C. {John Macoun.) Galium aparine, L. ; Macoun, Cat. Can. Plants, Vol. I., p. 200. The only western station for this plant given by Prof. Macoun is Victoria, Vancouver Island. It has since been found to be of very general distribution in British Colum- bia. Our specimens are from Elk River Bridge, Rocky Mountains. {Dr. Geo. M. Baivson.) Deer Park, Lower Arrow Lake, Columbia River, B.C. ; Ainsworth, Kootanie Lake, B.C. ; Kamloops, B.C.; Yale, B.C.; Agassiz, B.C.; Lulu Island, B.C. ; Salt Spring Island, Gulf of Georgia ; common on Vancouver Island. {John Macoun.) Speci- mens from some of the above localities have been distributed as var. Vaillantii, Koch, but they are true G. Aparine. We agree with Dr. Greene that though this species is " as much at home in our woods and thickets as any indigenous plant, it is probable that it came hither from the Old World within the last two centuries." Sherardia arvensis, L. In fields, Victoria, Vancouver Island, 1893. {John Macoun.) Not before recorded west of Ontario. ASPERULA ARVENSIS, L. Edge of a marsh, near Hamilton, Ont. {J. M. Dickson.) New to Canada. LiATRis SCARIOSA, Willd. ; Macoun, Cat. Can. Plants, Vol. L, p. 208. Near Sarnia, Lambton Co., Ont. {C. K. Bodge) Not recorded from Ontario since collected by Maclagan. Not having seen Maclagan's specimens. Prof. Macoun, when preparing his Catalogue, was of the opinion that Mac- lagan's stations for L. scariosa should be referred to L. cylindrica. 44 Canadian Record of Science. Aster concinnus, Willd. A specimen of this rare Aster was sent to our herbarium by Mr. Eugene A. Rau in December, 1890. The label reads thus : " Moraviantown (formerly called New Fair- field) near railroad station, Bothwell, Ontario, Canada. Collected by Eobert Eau, Sept. 30th, 1872. Identified by Prof. Porter." Specimens collected by Jas. M. Macoun, at Point Edward, Ont., in 1884, have been doubtfully referred here. They differ very slightly from Mr. Rau's specimen, and are not referable to any other species. Aster conspicuus, Lindl. ; Macoun, Cat. Can. Plants, Vol. I., pp. 220 and 544. In rocky thickets at Sicamous, B.C. (John Macoun.) Western limit. Erigeron armeri^folius, Turcz ; Macoun, Cat. Can. Plants, Vol. I., p. 235. Additional stations for this species are : Chaplin, Old Wives Lakes, Assa., Herb. No. 10,840 ; Fort Walsh, Cypress Hills, Assa. ; Hand Hills, Alberta ; St. Mary's River, Alberta, Herb. No. 10,839 ; Cave Avenue, Banff, Rocky Mountains ; Sicamous, B.C. ; Kamloops, B.C. {John Macoun.) Not before recorded west of the prairie region. Erigeron ochroleucus, Nutt. Summit of Sheep Mountain, Waterton Lake, Rocky Mountains. Herb. No. 10,858. (John Macoun.) New to Canada. Flowers purplish, turning to a dirty chrome yellow when the specimens have been badly dried. The description in Torr. & Gray, Fl. IL, p. 178, is a much better one than that in Gray's Syn. Flora. Erigeron strigosus, Muhl. ; Macoun, Cat. Can. Plants, Vol. L, p. 234. Near Belly and St. Mary's rivers, Alberta; Griffin Lake, B.C. ; Sproat, B.C. ; Ainsworth, Kootanie Lake, B.C.; Contributions to Canadia7i Botany. 45 Alberni, Vancouver Island. (John Macoun.) Not before recorded west of Assiniboia. The Sproat specimens are the var. discoideus, Eobbins. Erigeron uniflorus, L.; Macoun, Cat. Can. Plants, Vol. I., pp. 231 and 547. Summit of Avalanche Mountain, Selkirk Mts., B.C. ; Mt. Queest, Shuswap Lake, B.C. Alt. 6,000 feet, {Jas. M. Macoun.) Not recorded before from British Columbia. Specimens from Kicking Horse Lake, taken from a land- slide at the foot of a mountain, show a great divergence in habit from those collected at the summit of the same mountain, 3,000 feet higher. These latter are scarcely an inch in height, and have in some cases a barely perceptible stem ; the plants from the lower levels are more than a foot high. Antennaria alpina, Gcertn. ; Macoun, Cat. Can. Plants, Vol. L, pp. 236 and 548. Mountains north of Griffin Lake, B.C. ; Eevelstoke, B.C. ; Spence's Bridge, B.C. ; summit of Mount Arrow- smith, Vancouver Island. {John Macoun.) Antennaria Carpathica, li.Br.; Macoun, Cat. Can. Plants, Vol. I., pp. 236 and 548. Additional stations for this species are : mountains at Roger's Pass, Selkirk Mts., B.C., alt. 6,500 feet; near Ainsworth, Kootanie Lake, B.C. ; Spence's Bridge, B.C. {John Macoun.) Mount Queest, Shuswap Lake, B.C. ; mountains at Griffin Lake, B.C. {Jas. M. Macoun.) Sucker Mountain, B.C. {Jas. McEvoy.) Antennaria Carpathica, R. Br., var. pulcherrima. Hook. Macoun, Cat. Can. Plants. Vol. I., pp. 237 and 548. Guichon Creek, B.C. ; mountains south of Tulameen Eiver, B.C. {Dr. Geo. M. Dawson.) Spence's Bridge, 46 Canadian Record of Science. B.C. ; Cache Creek Mountain. B.C. {John Macoun.) The Cache Creek specimens were referred to A. Caiyathica in Prof. Macoun's Catalogue. Not before recorded west of Selkirk Mountains. Antennaria dioica, Gaertn. ; Macoun, Cat. Can. Plants, Vol. I., pp. 236 and 548. Charlton Island. James Bay, Hudson Bay, the var. parvijlora, T. & G. (Jas. M. Maconn.) Our herbarium material shows typical A. dioica, Gsertn., to be common from Assiniboia west through the Rocky Mountains to Kamloops, B.C., and north to Fort Smith on Great Slave River. The pink-flowered form is almost as common, but has not been found east of Belly River, Alberta. Gnaphalium decurrens, Ives, var. Californicum, Gray. In open woods at Revelstoke, B.C., and at Ainsworth, Kootanie Lake, B.C., 1890. {John Macoun.) New to Canada. Gnaphalium microcephalum, Nutt. ; Macoun, Cat. Can. Plants, Vol. L, p. 548. Qualicum, Vancouver Island, and Protection Island, Nanaimo, V.I. Herb. No. 430. {John Macoun.) Xanthium spinosum, L. On ballast, Nanaimo, Vancouver Island. {John Macoun.) Recorded before only from Ontario. RUDBECKIA HIRTA, L. About deserted dwellings. Kicking Horse River, Rocky Mountains. {J. M. Macoun.) Revelstoke, B.C. ; Griffin Lake, B.C. {John Macoun.) Not before recorded west of the prairie region. Probably introduced by means of the railway. Contributions to Canadian Botany. 47 Helianthus divaricatus, L. Our specimens of this species show a wider range of cauline leaf forms than are included in Gray's descrip- tions. They vary from the ovate-lanceolate form, deeply and regularly serrate, to ovate with obtuse or rounded tips, with the serration barely apparent. Specimens collected at The Chats, Ottawa Eiver, by Mr. Cowley, are farthest from typical divaricatus — the truncate, sessile, obtuse leaves, not being even divaricate. Helianthus rigidus, Desf. In thickets, Eevelstoke, B.C. (John Macoun.) Not before recorded west of prairie region. Probably intro- duced from the east along the Canadian Pacific Eailway. BiDENS CERNUA, L. New Westminster, B.C. Herb. Nos. 457 and 458. (JoJm Macoun.) Not before recorded west of Kocky Mountains. BiDENS FRONDOSA, L. New Westminster, B.C. Herb. No. 456. {John Macoun.) Not before recorded west of Rocky Mountains. Madia filipes, Gray ; Macoun, Cat. Can. Plants, Vol. I., p. 248. Nanaimo, Vancouver Island, Herb. No. 461 ; Deer Park, Lower Arrow Lake, Columbia River, B.C. {John Macoun.) Artemisia absinthium, L. Waste places at Medicine Hat, Assa., 1895. {John Macoun, Herb. No. 10,980.) Not before recorded west of Ontario. Artemisia Ludoviciana, Nutt. Along roadsides at Port Arthur, Ont., 1889. {Dr. and Mrs. N. L. Britton and Miss Timmernian.) On the Cana- 48 Canadian Record of Science. dian Pacific Eailway, near the station at Chalk Pdver, Ont. Herb. No. 10,985. {John Macoun.) Doubtless introduced from the west in both cases. Senecio fastigiatus, Nutt. S. megacephalus, Macoun, Cat. Can. Plants, Vol. I., p. 263. Belly Kiver, Alberta, 1881. {Dr. Geo. M. Dawson.) Souris Plain, Assa. {J. M. Macoun.) Indian Head, Assa. {David Macoun.) Alkaline flats, near Twelve-mile Lake, Wood Mountain, Assa., Herb. No. 11,615. {John Macoun.) Senecio megacephalus, Nutt. 8. amplectans, Macoun, Cat. Can. Plants, Vol. I., p. 264 South Kootanie Pass, Eocky Mountains, 1881. {Dr. G. M. Daioson.) Amongst debris on mountain sides, Sheep Mountain, Waterton Lake, Lat. 49° 05', Eocky Mountains. Herb. No. 11,631. {John Macoun.) New to Canada. CiCHORIUM INTYBUS, L. Winnifred, Assa. ( W. Spreadborough.) Sicamous, B.C. {John Macoun.) Not before recorded between Ontario and the Pacific Coast. Stephanomeria runcinata, Nutt. S. minor, Macoun, Cat. Can. Plants, Vol. I., p. 284, in part. On a dry clay bank, south of Wood Mountain, Assa., 1874. {Dr. G. M. Daivson.) Many Berries Creek, Milk Eiver, Assa. {John Macoun.) New to Canada. AscLEPiAS purpurascens, L. ; Macoun, Cat. Can. Plants, Vol. L, p. 320. Walpole Island, Lambton County, Ont. {C. K. Dodge.) Contributions to Canadian Botany. 49 ASCLEPIAS SULLIVANTII, Engelm. Walpole Island, Lambton County, Ont. {C. K. Dodge.) New to Canada. Gentiana puberula. Michx. On the Humber Plains, near Toronto, Ont., 1895. ( Wni. Scott.) New to Canada. All the references under G. puherida, Macoun, Cat. Can. Plants, go to C affinis, Griseb. LiTHOSPEEMUM ANGUSTIFOLIUM, Mx. Sandy soil at the beach at Hamilton, Ont. {J. M. Macoun.) Not before recorded east of Manitoba. Orobanche purpurea, Vill. Found growing on a lawn at Wingham, Ont. {J. A. Morton.) Probably introduced in grass seed. New to Canada. Utricularia resupinata, B. W. Green; Can. Ptec. of Science, Vol. VI., p. 204. On an island near the north shore of Parry Sound, Lake Huron, 1893. (J. M. Dickson.) Only authentic record for Ontario. Veronica Virgintca, L.; Macoun, Cat. Can. Plants, Vol. I., p. 360. Found by Prof. Macoun near Savanne station on the C. P. Ptailway, west of Port Arthur, in 1889. Probably introduced at this particular place, but indigenous further west along the railway. Credited to the Winnipeg Valley by Gray, but on what authority is not stated. Walpole Island, Lambton Co., Ont. (C. K. Dodge.) Pedicularis scopulorum. Gray. Summit of Saddle Mountain, Devil's Lake, Rocky 50 Canadian Record of Science. Mountains, alt. 8,000 feet. {John Macoun.) New to Canada. Pycnantiiemum muticum, Pers. Near Hamilton, Ont. {J. M. Dickson.) New to Canada. Carex festiva, Dew., var. Haydeniana, W. Boott. Borders of coulees. Cypress Hills, Assa., 1894. Herb. No. 7,397. (John Maconn.) Not before recorded east of Kocky Mountains. Lycopodium obscurum, L. ; Macoun, Cat. Can. Plants, Vol. II., p. 288. Near Fort Norman, Mackenzie Eiver, 1892. {Miss E. Taylor.) Kevelstoke, B.C., 1890. {John Macoun.) Not before recorded north or west of the Saskatchewan. Lycopodium inundatum. L. Swamp at " The Lake," Stanley Park, Vancouver, B.C., 1893. Herb. No. 527 {John Macoun.) Not before re- corded west of Ontario. 5.R £X/V-k^ Contributions from the Herbarium of the Geological Survey of Canada. (By Permission of the Director.) By James M. Macoun, Curator of the Herbarium. XI. Beprinted from the Canadian Record of Science, October, 189'} ''Reprinted from the Canadian Record of Science, October, 1897." Contributions to Canadian Botany. , By James M. Macoun. XI. Nesodraba iMEGALOCARPA, Greene, Pittonia, Vol. III., p. 253. Central tuft of three leaves 3 inches high or more ; leaves oblong-spatulate, obtuse, with a few coarse teeth near the summit ; stout ascending peduncles 6 inches high, clothed below the raceme with oval sessile leaves J inch long ; pods linear-oblong, J to | inch long, two or three lines wide, acutish, and tipped with an acute style. Seal Eocks, Dawson Harbour, Skidegate Inlet, Queen Charlotte Islands, B.C., 1897. Herb. No. 16,928. {Dr. C. F. Newcomhe.) Dr. Greene's new genus, Nesodraha, includes three species, one of which, N. grandis, has long been a puzzle to botanists, having been by the earlier botanists referred to Cochlearia and by the later, with less reason, to Draba. N. megalocarjpa is known only from Dr. ISTewcombe's speci- mens. N. grandis is common in herbaria as Draba liyper- borea. PoLYGALA Senega, L., var. latifolia, T. & G. Dry bank. Valley Inn near Hamilton, Ont., 1896, (J. M. Dickson.) Only other known Canadian station. Georgian Bay. Cerastium arvense, L., var. yillosum, Holl. & Britt. In sod and along old paths near the cemetery at Hamil- ton, Ont., 1897. {J. M. Dickson.) New to Canada. Sagina procumbens, L. Growing in Mr. Pt. Cameron's yard at Niagara, Ont. 4G4 Canadian Record of Science, Probably indigenous, though not before recorded from Ontario. TiiiFOLiUM DIANTHUM, Greene, Pittonia, Vol. III., p. 217. Very dwarf ])erennial, the rather stoutish sterns^ scarcely an inch long, surpassed by the upper petioles and peduncles ; herbage deep green and very glabrous ; leaflets obcordate or obovate, about \ inch long^ rather sharply and niucronately dentate ; peduncles shorter than the leaves, bearing an involu crate pair of purple Howers ; involucre large for the plant, lacerately cleft ; calyx with 10-nerved tube shorter than the teeth, these with oblong- lanceolate body tapering to a stoutish aristiform apex ; corolla twice the length of the calyx, the petals purple, tipped with white. Species founded on specimens collected at Esquimault near Victoria, Vancouver Island, by Prof. Macoun, May 13th, 1893. Herb. No. 97, and distributed as T. paioci- Jioruni. Specimens collected at the same place by Prof. Macoun in 1875, and labelled T. paucijlorum var. (Herb. No. 18,015), are this species. Trifolium agrarium, L. New Westminster, B.C. {A. J. Hill.) Not recorded west of Ontario. Prunus mXhaleb, L. Mountain side at Hamilton, Ont., May 15th, 1895. {J. M. Dickson.) Well naturalized. Not before recorded from Canada. Aster angustus, T. & G. Growing in railway round-house at Montrose, Ont. {R. Cameron.) Introduced from the west along railway. Erigeron Macounii, Greene, Pittonia, Vol. III., p. 162. . Low perennial, with a stout branching caudex bearing Contributions to Canadian Botany. 465 many spatulate, linear, acute, entire leaves, and stoutish ascending, sparsely leafy monocephalous peduncles ; the younger foliage canescently strigose, the older glabrate ; heads large, hemispherical ; bracts of the somewhat hoary- tomentose involucre subequal, in two series ; rays about 50, rather broad, purple. Summit of Sheep Mountain, Waterton Lake, -Eocky Mountains, alt, 7,500 ft., July 31st, 1895. Herb. N'o. 10,858. {John Macoun.) Distributed as Erigeron ochrolcucus. Erigeron kindbergi, Greene, Pittonia, Vol. III., p. 165. Stems several, erect, from a perennial root, 6 inches high, pilose-pubescent, apparently flaccid and not con- spicuously angled ; lowest leaves oblanceolate, entire, acute, wholly glabrous and, in no degree, ciliate ; the cauline narrowly linear, elongated, sessile by an abruptly dilated base ; heads mostly solitary, small, the involucre barely three lines high ; bracts very unequal, all narrowly linear and rather abruptly acute, glabrous and glandless, except at the pilose-pubescent base ; rays very numerous, narrow and short ; pappus scanty for the U. acris group, and not at all accrescent, dull-white, unchanged in age. Meadows on the plateau east of Stump Lake, B.C., July 14th, 1891. Herb. No. 7,793. (Jas. McEvoy.) Named for Dr. Mis Conrad Kindberg, by whom some of the characters were indicated in 1892. Erigeron jucundus, Greene, Pittonia, Vol. III., p. 165. E. acris, Macoun, Cat. Can. Plants, Vol. L, p. 547 in part. E. acris, var. Droebachensis, Macoun, Cat. Can. Plants, Vol. I., p. 547 in part. E. alpinns, Macoun, Cat. Can. Plants, Vol. I., p. 234 in part. Perennial, 2 to 10 inches high, the several stems mono- cephalous, or in larger plants with several and corymbose- 466 Canadian Record of Science. racemose rather large heads ; herbage, light-green and flaccid, more or less pilose-pubescent, and at least the upper parts of the plant glandular-viscid ; lowest leaves spatulate-ovate and oblanceolate, obtuse, mucronulate, entire, or with one or two pairs of crenate and mucronu- late teeth below the apex, both faces sparsely pubescent and the petioles as sparsely ciliate ; the cauline oblong- lanceolate, entire ; heads three or four lines high, but involucral bracts notably shorter than the Howers, unequal, nearly linear, the inner acuminate, the tips of all more or less spreading, the whole involucre as well as the peduncles viscid-glandular, the basal parts hirsute- pubescent ; rays apparently 60 to 80, not extremely narrow ; pappus, copious and accrescent, dull white, little darker in age. Distributed freely from the Herbarium of the Geological Survey of Canada as E. acris, E. acris, var. Drcebachensis and E. alpinus, to which species it was at various times referred by Dr. Gray and Dr. Watson. Easily distin- guished from E. Drcebachensis by its very different habit, pubescence and inflorescence ; and the pappus of the latter, at least in the American plant, becomes of a rich and beautiful brown-red in age. The peduncles in the present species, though slender, are abruptly and conspicuously enlarged at summit under the involucre. Summit of Sheep Mountain, Waterton Lake, Eocky Mountains, alt., 7,000 ft. Herb. No. 10,841 ; Lake Louise, Eocky Mts., alt., 6,500 ft. Herb. No. 7,794; Kicking Horse Lake, Eocky Mts., alt, 7,000 ft. Herb. No, 18,010 ; Eoger's Pass, Selkirk Mountains, alt., 5,000 ft. Herb. No. 11,005 ; Eevelstoke, B.C. Herb. No. 18,011. {John Maconn.) Western summit of North Kootanie Pass, Eocky Mountains. Herb. No. 18,012. {Dr. G. M. Daivson.) Mount Queest, Shuswap Lake, B.C., alt., 6,000 ft. Herb. No. 11,009. {Jas. M. Macoun.) Dr. Kindberg was of the opinion that the Lake Louise plant agreed very nearly Contributions to Canadian Botany. 467 with E. ijolitus Fr., but E. politics is not only glabrous, but it has none of the viscid-glandulosity which is so charac- teristic of E. jucundios. Erigerox elatus, Greene, Pittonia, Vol. Ill, p. 164. E. alpimis, var. elatus, Hook. ; Macoun, Cat. Can. Plants in part. Collected by Drummond in the Rocky Mountains, Lat. o4°-5 6°, re-discovered by Prof. Macoun in 1890. Kicking Horse Lake, Rocky Mountains. Herb. No. 18,014 ; Cave Avenue, Banff, Rocky Mountains. Herb. No. 11,018. (John Macoun.) Erigeron alpinus, L. The specimens, collected by Dr. Dawson and referred here by Prof. Macoun in Cat. Can. Plants, Vol. I., p. 234, are E. jucundus. Our only specimens of E. alpinus were collected by Prof. Macoun at Kicking Horse Lake, Rocky Mountains, in 1885, when they were referred to E. acris. Erigeron peregrinus (Pursh), Greene, var. Dawsoni, Greene, Pittonia, Vol. TIL, p. 166. Differs from the type in having its leaves gradually reduced from the middle of the stem upward almost as much as in E. salsuginosus ; and more notably different in having twice as many and much more slender involucral bracts, and about 50 rather narrow rays. In damp, grassy thickets, Queen Charlotte Islands, B.C. Herb. No. 11,205. {Dr. C M. Daivson.) Referred provisionally to E. salsuginosus, var. Unalaschkensis, Less, by Prof. Macoun in Cat. Can. Plants, Vol. I., p. 233, where some of its distinguishing characters were indicated. IVA XANTHIFOLIA, Nutt Along Grand Trunk Railway near Clifton, Ont. {R. Cameron.) Waste ground, St. Catherines, Ont. {W. C. McCalla.) Introduced from the west along railway. 468 Canadian Record of Science. Senecio Macounii, Greene, Pittonia, Vol. III., p. 1G9. Tufted and apparently somewhat stoloniferous perennial, the slender, nearly naked stems about a foot high, simple, subcorymbose at summit, leafy below, tloccose-tomentose throughout ; leaves chiefly at and near the base of the stem, hoary-tomentose beneath, more deciduously so above, 3 to 6 lines long, including the slender petiole, this much longer than the obovate or oblong-lanceolate or oblanceolate blade, which is 3-nerved and with variously crenate, or dentate or repand-denticulate margin ; heads small (as in S. Fendleri), in a rather compact cymose corymb ; bracts of the involucre about 12 or 15, lanceolate, thinnish ; rays as many, yellow ; achenes light colored, 5-angled, with 5 intervening striae ; pappus fine and soft. Goldstream, (Herb. No. 554), and Mount Benson. (Herb. No. 555), Vancouver Island. (John Macoim.) Distributed as S. lugens, var. exaltatus, Gray. Senecio Collmbianus, Greene, Pittonia, Vol. III., p. 169. Taller and stouter than S. higens, often 3 feet high, the stems solitary, not clustered, and without a root stocky but proceeding from a not at all deep-seated fascicle of fibrous roots ; leaves scattered up and down the lower half of the stem (not clustered at base of a nearly naked stem) ; pubescence scanty, curled-hairy rather than fine and lanate or tomentose ; heads three or four times as large as in S. lugens, more than twice as numerous, and the corymb compound ; bracts of the involucre more thick and fleshy, scarcely black-tipped ; mature achenes light-colored, scarcely angled or even striate. Hillsides, Farewell Creek, Assiniboia. Herb. No. 11,637; grassy slopes, Guichon Creek, B.C. Herb. No. 16,586. Typical. (D7\ G. M. Daivson.) Confounded with S. lugens and figured as that species in Hooker's Flora Boreali- Americana, probably from specimens col- lected in British Columbia by Douglas, while Eichardson's Contributions to Canadian Botany. 469 description in the same volume was from sub-arctic specimens of his own collecting. S. lugens is well repre- sented in our herbarium, and seems to be an exclusively sub-arctic and Eocky Mountain species. Specimens from Old Man's Eiver, about 30 miles north of the Inter- national Boundary, answer to Kichardson's description even better than specimens in our herbarium of his own collecting. Senecio Kewcombei, Greene, Pittonia, Vol. Ill, p. 249. Slender and weak, simple stemmed and monocephalous perennial, with thin membranaceous foliage; leaves few and remote, long-petioled, reniform-palmate, i.e, of reniform outline, but distinctly and evenly 7-lobed, the lobes not deep, from broadly triangular to broadly oval, mucronulate, the whole hardly an inch wide, all the lower on elongated petioles dilated and clasping at the base ; the uppermost cuneate or spatulate and sessile ; the whole plant with a little loose and probably deciduous lanate pubescence ; involucre short and broad, almost campanulate ; bracts broad, thin, almost biserial ; calyculate bracts, none ; rays, 10 or 12, J to f inch long; ovaries glabrous; pappus rather coarse, almost barbellulate. Seal Kocks, Dawson Harbour, Skidegate Inlet, Queen Charlotte Islands, 1897. Herb. No. 16,929. {Dr. C. I. Newcomhe.) As pointed out by Dr. Greene, this plant resembles superficially a debilitated and monocephalous Chrysanthemum segetitm, and in its pappus, as well as broad involucre, it seems to approach Arnica. But if not a Senecio, it represents a new genus. Phacelia Franklinii, Gray ; Macoun, Oat. Can. Plants, Vol. I., p. 333. Additional stations for this species are burnt hillsides north of Prince* Albert, Saskatchewan, Herb. No. 12,220. {John Macoicn.) East of Lake Athabasca, 1893. {J. W. 470 Canadian Becord of Science. Tyrrell) Miles Canon, Lat. 62°, north of British Cohimbia, 1887. {Dr. G. M. Daivson. Wm. Ogilvie.) Phacelia sericea. Gray ; Macoun, Cat. Can. Plants, Vol. I., pp. 333 and 567. P. sericea, Gray, var. Lyallii, Gray ; Macoun, Cat. Can. Plants, Vol. I., p. 333 in part and p. 567. Common in the Eocky Mountains from Lat. 52° south to the International Boundary, Koger's Pass, Selkirk Mountains, alt. 4,500 ft. ; Mount Arrowsmith, Vancouver Island, alt. 5,500 ft. {John Macoun.) Phacelia sericea. Gray, var. Lyallii, Gray. Our only Canadian specimens of this species were col- lected in 1895 by Prof. Macoun on the high slopes of Sheep Mountain, Waterton Lake, Eocky Mountains. Amsinckia echinata, Lehm. Near an old mining camp at Eevelstoke, B.C., July 21st, 1890. Introduced from the United States. {John Macoun.) New to Canada. Amsinckia lycopsoides, Lehm. A. lycopsoides, Lehm. var. hracteosa, Macoun, Cat. Can. Plants, Vol. L, p. 568. Mary Island, Gulf of Georgia, B.C., 1885. {Dr. G. M. Dawson.) Our only Canadian specimens. The type was collected by Scouler on an island or along the shores of the Straits of Juan de Fuca. Amsinckia lycopsoides, Lehm, var. bracteosa, Gr. ; Macoun, Cat. Can. Plants, Vol. L, p. 338. Common on Vancouver Island, B.C. Myosotis collina, Hoffen. Low fields, Edmonton, Ont., 1890. {Jas. White.) New to Canada. Introduced. Contributions to Canadian Botany. 471 Myosotis yerna, Nutt, var. macrosperma, Chapm. New stations for this species are Agassiz, B.C., and Deer Park, Lower Arrow Lake, B.C. {John Macotm.) Eastern limit in Canada. Not a very well defined variety and probably only a western form of if. verna, which has not been collected in Canada west of Ontario. Symphytum asperrimum, Sims. Waste places at Spence's Bridge, B.C., 1889. (John Macoun.) Escaped from cultivation, and naturalized. Not before recorded from Canada. OxosMODiUM Carolinianum, DC, var. molle. Gray. New stations for this plant are Souris, Man. (Thos. L. Walker.) Brandon, Man. Herb. No. 12,258 and Stand- Off, Belly River, Alta. Herb. No. 11,841. {John Macoun.) Ipom^^a Quamoclit, L. Climbing over weeds near the upper Suspension Bridge at Niagara Falls, Ont. {R. Cameron.) Probably a garden escape, but not before recorded as being naturalized. SOLAXUxM triflorum, Nutt. Along the C. P. Railway at Port Arthur, Ont. {Dr. and Mrs. N. L. Britton and Miss Timmennan.) Intro- duced from the west. Antirrhinium Orontium, L. Niagara Falls, Ont. {R. Cameron.) Only record for Eastern Canada. LiXARIA VULGARIS, Mill, Waste places, Beacon Hill, Vancouver Island, B.C. {John Macoun.) Not recorded west of Ontario. Mimulus alatus. Ait. Wet places in a ditch which crosses the 2nd concession 472 Canadian Record of Science. line, township of Harwich, and runs into the foot of Eondeau Harbour, Elgin Co., Ont., Aug. 18th, 1897. {Dr. A. J. Stevenson and J. Dearness.) New to Canada. MiMULUS ALSINOIDES, Benth. ; Macoun, Cat. Can. Plants, Vol. I., p. 358 in part. Abundant on Vancouver Island. North Arm, Burrard Inlet, B.C. {J. M. Macoun.) Yale, B.C., and Agassiz, B.C. {John Macoun.) This species seems to be confined in Canada to the vicinity of the Pacific coast. MiMULUS FLORIBUNDUS, Doud. Botanic Creek, north of Lytton, B.C. {Jas. McEvoy.) Damp places at Sproat, Columbia Eiver, B.C. {John Macoun.) Elk Eiver, Kootanie Eiver, B.C. {Dr. G. M. Dawson.) Not before recorded from Canada. The speci- mens referred to this species in Macoun's Catalogue of Canadian Plants, Vol. L, p. 571, prove to be small plants of M. moschat'us, Dougl. MiMULUS MOSCHATUS, Dougl. ; Macoun, Cat. Can. Plants, Vol. I., p. 358. M. Jlorihmdios,M3iCo\xn, Cat. Can. Plants, Vol. L, p. 571. Beaver Creek, Selkirk Mts., B.C.; Eevelstoke, B.C.; Kootanie Eiver, near its junction with the Columbia Eiver, B.C. ; Burrard Inlet, B.C. ; common on Vancouver Island. {John Macoun.) Quesnell Lake, B.C. {A. Boivm,an.) Anstey Creek, Shuswap Lake, B.C. {J. M. Macoun.) The var. sessilifolius, Gray, is much commoner than the type on Vancouver Island, but has not been found elsewhere in Canada. MiMULUS NASUTUS, Greene ; Macoun, Cat. Can. Plants, Vol. L, p. 571. Lower Arrow Lake and Sproat, Columbia Eiver, B.C. ; common on Vancouver Island., {John Macoun.) Among the specimens from Sproat are some which are very Contributions to Canadian Botany. 473 canescent and vary somewhat from the type as to foliage, but they do not appear to be separable from M. nasutus. MiMULUS LUTEUS, L. There are some thirty or forty sheets of Mimulus, labelled M. luteus, in our herbarium. These include many forms and varieties, and we believe several species, but we find it impossible even with Dr. Greene's " Miimdus luteus and some of its allies " in hand to satisfactorily separate and determine our specimens. They cover a wide range — from the Cypress Hills, Alberta, through the Eocky Mountains and British Columbia north to the Aleutian Islands, including Unalaska, the locality from which seeds of 31. Langsdorffii were taken to Europe, but the various forms so intergrade that our present know- ledge does not enable us to definitely and finally separate them. Orthocarpus pallescens. Gray. ' Lower Arrow Lake, Columbia Eiver, B.C. {Dr. G. M. Dawson. John Macoun.) First collected by Dr. Dawson in 1889 and referred to Castilleia pallida. New to Canada- Pedicularis contorta, Benth. New stations for this rare plant are Mt. Aylmer, Devil's Lake, Eocky Mountains, alt. 6,000 ft. (JoJm Macoun.) Toad Mountain, Kootanie Lake, B.C., alt. 6,000 ft. (Jas. M. Macoun.) Pedicularis racemosa, Dougl. ; Macoun, Cat. Can. Plants, Vol. I., pp. 368 and 572. Common on sub-alpine slopes throughout British Columbia. Near the road to Union Mines, Comox, Vancouver Island; Mount Mark, V.I., alt. 3,000 ft. {John Macoun.) Not before recorded from Vancouver Island. 474 Canadian Record of Science. Penstemon CONFERTUS, Dougl. ; Macoun,^Cat. Can, Plants, Vol. L, pp. 354 and 570. Prairies near Sage Creek, Milk Eiver, Assa. Herb. No. 11,859. {John Macoun.) Eastern limit in Canada. Penstemon diffusus, Dougl. ; Macoun, Cat. Can. Plants' Vol. I., p. 357. New stations for this species are Botanic, north of Lytton, B.C. ; Griffin Lake, B.C. {Jas. M. Macoun.) Agassiz, B.C. ; Cowichan Eiver, Vancouver Island. {Joh7i Macoun.) PiNGUicuLA viLLOSA, L. ; Macoun, Cat. Can. Plants, Vol. I. p. 376 and Vol. IL, p. 349. Bogs, Lat. 60' 30', Long. 104°. {J. W. Tyrrell.) The Lake Mistassini, reference, (Pursh), is, as Prof. Macoun suggests in his catalogue, to P. vulgaris, which is very common about that lake. Verbena hastata, L. ; Macoun, Cat. Can. Plants, Vol. I., p. 379. Sicamous, B.C. ; near Victoria and at Sumas Eiver, Vancouver Island. {John Macoun.) Not before recorded west of Gold Eange, B.C. Lamium amplexicaule, L. A weed in gardens at Comox, Vancouver Island. {John Macoun.) Not recorded from west of Ontario. Lycopus lucidus, Turcz.,var. Americanus, Gray; Macoun, Cat. Can. Plants, Vol. L, p. 382. Kamloops, B.C. {John Macoun.) "Bonaparte Eiver, B.C. {Jas. McEvoy.) Not recorded west of MONARDA FISTULOSA, L., var. RUBRA, Gray. In thickets at Wingham, Ont. {J. A. Morton.) New to Canada. Contributions to Canadian Botany. 1-75 Nepeta Glechoma, Benth. Waste places, Battle Harbour, Labrador. {Rev. A. Waghorne.) Not before recorded from Labrador. Plantago borealis, Lange. P. maritima, Macoun, Cat. Can. Plants, Vol. I., pp. 393 and 575 in part. Commonly referred to F. maritima, but a good species. Our specimens are from Battle Harbour, Labrador, Herb. No. 16,890. (Bev. A. Waghorne.) Fort Chimo, Labrador, Herb. No. 15,955. (A. P. Low.) jSTachvak, Labrador, Herb. No. 16,891 ; Nottingham Island, Hudson Strait, Herb. No. 16,892. Fort Churchill, Hudson Bay. Herb. No. 16,889. (Dr. R. Bell.) P. paucifiora, Pursh, is a very different plant, and has nothing to do with this species. As ARUM Canadense, L. Mr. E. P. Bicknell, in the Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club for November, 1897, has described a new species of Asarnm — A. reflexiim — hitherto confounded with A. Ganadense. We have in the herbarium of the Geological Survey typical specimens of both species from the L^nited States, A. Canadense from the New England States, A. reflexicm from Ohio. Our Canadian species are all from Ontario. Those collected at Ottawa in the eastern part of the province very nearly approach A. Canadense, as described and figured by Mr. Bicknell ; those from the western part of the province are referable to A. reflexum rather than to A. Canadense, but none of our specimens are typical representatives of either species, the series apparently connecting the two species. Canadian collectors should study this genus in the field with Mr» Bicknell's descriptions in hand. Since writing the above Mr. J. M. Dickson, of Hamilton^ has sent me drawings of two specimens of Asaritm, one of which represents A. Canadense, the olher A. reflexum„ 476 Canadian Record of Science. probably the variety amhignitm, as Mr. Dickson writes that tlie calyx is tomentose and the lobes very long- pointed. Trillium grandiflorum, Salisb. Monstrosities of this species are not uncommon in South Western Ontario, a fine series in our herbarium having been received from Mr. J. Dearness, London, Ont.; Mr. K. Cameron, Niagara, Ont. ; Mr. J. M. Dickson, Hamilton, Ont., and Mr. Wm. Scott, Toronto, Ont. Mr. Dickson, after studying in the field the different forms found in the vicinity of Hamilton, sent me the following notes : — " A few years ago several green flowered Trilliums were observed growing in a flat piece of woods on the banks of the Waterdown Creek, near this city. To see if they were persistent and not merely sports of a season, I visited the locality during the latter part of May, 1897, and, upon a close inspection, found several remarkable forms not previously noted. Some of these may be described as below : — " 1st. Several with white edgings and markings on sepals. The most remarkable of these had one sepal green, one half green and half white and the third pure white, while both sepals and petals were inserted in a distinct spiral on the axis ; the leaves were normal. " 2nd. Leaves and sepals normal. Petals marked with green lines or bands toward the base. " 3rd. Leaves and sepals normal. Petals green, with a narrow white margin. " 4th. Leaves distinctly petiolate. Petioles one to three inches long; sepals white, with a green stripe down the midrib. Petals narrowed, lanceolate, white, with broad green band in centre, running from base, and terminating near the apex. " 5th. Leaves as in No. 4. Sepals normal. Petals Contributions to Canadian Botany. 477 obovate. Apiculate long clawed, with broad green centres and white margins. " 6th. Leaves ovate, long acuiliinate, petioled. Petioles ascending, widely spreading, seven inches long, inserted about two inches above the root stock and six or seven inches below the flower. Sepals normal. Petals green, with white margins. "All the flowers seemed to be perfect, some having a sterile filament, which might be due to accident," No. 6 was potted and photographed by Mr. Dickson. When photographed the stem was 10 inches high, the peduncle being 8 inches in length. The petioles were 8J inches long ; leaves 2^ inches long, Ih inches broad, long- acuminate. A remarkable form, sent from Niagara by Mr. Cameron, has the petals changed into petioled leaves (petioles more than an inch long.) Mr. Cameron has also sent me a photograph of a very large flowered plant with 21 pure white petals. It was found on Navy Island, Niagara Ptiver, by Mr. Cameron in 1896. He transplanted it, and last summer two flowers were produced, each with 21 petals. Mr. Cameron also reports a double yellow-flowered dwarf specimen from Niagara Falls, but this is probably some other species. mn^^h-^'. 7 y> 4^rt^ CONTRIBUTIONS TO CANADIAN BOTANY. James M. Macoun, Assist. Naturalist, Geol.. Survey of Canada. XII. !>eprinted frpm The OrrAVVA Naturalist for December, 1898, Vol. XII. "'■ » -K?^^ 1 The EDITH and LORNE PIERCE COLLECTION of CANADI ANA Slueens University at Kingston » ERRATA. P. i6i, line ii, for "Jumping Pond" read "Ju.-nping Pound." P. 162, line 18, for " glabrous and glabrous" read "glabrous and glaucous." P. 164, for " POLYGALA VERTICELLATA " read " POLYGALA VERTI- CILLATA." P. 165, line 4, for " spicis" read " species." P. 165, line 16, for '^ tiardijolia]' read ^" 7iardifoliar P. 166, for " Anthyllus " read " Anthyllis." P. 167, line 7, for ^^ intermedius^^ read '''' intermedia, Wat. ;" P. 169, line 2, for *' Vaucouver " read " Vancouver." Pp. 169 and 170, for " uva-ursi" read " Uva-ursi." f Reprinted from The Ottawa Naturalist for December, 1S98, Vol. XII, No. 9, pp. 161-172. CONTRIBUTIONS TO CANADIAN BOTANY.* By James M. Macoun. Assist. Naturalist Gaol. Survey of Canada. XII. Ranunculus inam(enus. Greene, Pittonia 111, p. 91. Green, and appearing as if glabrous, but sparsely hairy, the the stoutish stems 6 to 12 inches high ; radical short-petiolate leaves obovate-flabelliform, at summit either crenate-toothed or 3-lobed, the cauline usually quite sessile and once or twice ternaiely divided into oblanceolate segments ; peduncles short and slender, often 3 to 5 together and subumbellate ; corolla 3 to 5 lines broad, the 5 petals obovate-oblong ; head of small pubes- cent achenes ovoid or short-cylindraceous, the linear receptacle white-hispid. Banff, Rocky Mountains, 1891 ; from several localities in the foot-hills, i.e., Jumping Pond Creek, Herb. No. 18,039 J Bragg's Creek, Elbow River, Herb. Nos. 18,037 ^"d 18,038, and Moose River, Elbow River, Herb. No. 18,040. {John Macoujz.) An excellent species well separated from all forms of R. affinis to which it has at various times been referred. Aquilegia flavescens, Wats. Not rare on mountain-sides on both sides of the summit at Yellow Head Pass, Rocky Mountains, Lat. 52° 50', 1898. {W, Spreadboroug-h) Northern limit. Nasturtium sylvestre, R. Br. Naturalized along the road in front of Ball's Mills, Lincoln Co., Ont. ( W. C. McCalla.) New to Canada. Cardamine angulata, Hook. Spring House Cove, Dawson Harbour, Queen Charlotte Islands, B.C., June 26th, 1897. {Dr. C. F. Newcombe) New to *Parts I-XI of these contributions appeared in the "Canadian Record of Science " during the years 1894-98. 1 62 The Ottawa Naturatist. [December Canada. Collected on the banks of the Columbia by Douglas and Scouler, and in many parts of Oregon and Washington in recent years, but never on Vancouver Island or the B. C. coast, where it doubtless occurs. Dkntaria Californica, Nutt. Cardamine aiigiilata, Macoun, Cat. Can. Plants, vol, i, p. 41. Dentaria tenella, Macoun, Cat. Can. Plants, vol. I, p. 39. Common on Vancouver Island. Dentaria gkminata, Wa's. Rich woods, Burnaby Lake, near New Westminster, B.C., 1889. ( /. AT. Macoun.) New to Canada. Agrees in every respect with specimens collected in the upper valley of the Nesqually River, W^ashington, by Mr. O. J. Allen. Arabis drepanot.oba, Greene, Pittonia, vol. in, p. 306. Prennial, the several stout decumbent stems 8 to 12 inches high ; herbage seemingly glabrous and glabrous, but the small oblanceolate lowest leaves sparsely stellate hairy ; the oblong sessile auriculate cauline ones like all the remaining parts of the plant glabrous ; corollas red, }^ inch long or more ; fruiting raceme 2-5 inches long, the broad spreading and slightly falcate- recurved pods 2 inches long including the short pedicel, about lyi lines wide, abruptly acutish, the stigma sessile ; valves with with a manifest nerve at base only ; seeds in two rows under each valve, flat, obovoid, narrowly winged. Collected in August, i89i,by Prof. John Macoun at Devil's Lake, Banff, Alberta, and distributed as A. Lenimoni, to which it is indeed related, yet easily distinguishable by its larger ■dimensions, much less pubescent lower leaves, and especially by its pods, which are twice as broad and with two rows of seeds. Arabis Nuttallii, Robinson. High dry slopes of mountains at Crow's Nest Pass, Rocky Mountains, alt. 7000 ft, Aug. 2nd, 1897. Herb. No. 18,162. (John Macoun.) New to Canada. The habitat of this plant is stated by Dr. Robinson to be " chiefly on low grounds in [moun- tain] valleys." The habitat as given by Nuttall "lofty dry hills,'* 1898] Contributions to Canadian Botany. 163 seems the better one. Nuttall's description of the root '' thick crowned with vestiges of former leaves and stems," well de- scribes Prof Macoun's specimens. Alliaria officinalis, Andrz. Sisyjnbrium Alliaria, Scop. Can. Rec. of Science, Nov., 1894. Alliaria Alliaria, (L.) Britt. At the Cove, Quebec, Que. (^Mrs. Brodie,) Not before re- corded from province of Quebec. Sisymbrium altisslmum, L. vS. Sinapistrum^ Crantz. Ballast heaps. North Sydney, Cape Breton Island, N.S., 1898. {John Macoun.) Not before recorded from Nova Scotia. Okanagan Landing, B.C. (/. R. Anderson.) Western limit. Conringia perfoliata, L. Erysimmn Orientale, R. Br. Can. Rec. of Science, Nov., 1894. Now represented in our herbarium from many localities in the North-west and from Snelgrove, Ont. {Jus, White.) and Stamford, Ont. {R. Cameron.) Parrya macrocarpa, R. Br. Summit of Father Mt. alt. 6,000 ft. Yukon District, July 3rd, 1898. (/. B. Tyrrell.) Not before collected in that region. Draba hirta, L. Crevices of rocks. Big Intervale, Margaree, Cape Breton Island, N.S , 1898. {John Macoun.) Not before recorded from Nova Scotia. Northern Labrador. {A. P. Low.) Draba pr.^alta, (Greene, Pittonia, vol. iii, p. 306. Annual, very erect and strict, mostly quite simple, 10 to 15 inches high, subcinercous throughout, even to the pods, with short stellate hairs ; rosulate basal leaves oblong-lanceolate, yi to ^ inch long, entire, or with two or three pairs of sharp teeth the two or three cauline similar ; flowers white ; the loose fruiting raceme often 5 or 6 inches long, the almost lanceolate pods ^ inch long or more, erect on ascending pedicels nearly as long, 164 The Ottawa Naturalist. [December acute, rather turgid, not contorted, a channel-like depression marking the line of the mid-vein from its base to near the middle. This is a plant which by its annual root and large size would be taken for a relation of D. neniorosa, but for its very strict habit, narrow leaves and white flowers. Common everywhere in the Rocky Mountains between 4,500 ft. and 6,000 altitude. Our our herbarium specimens are from Banff, Rocky Mountains, 1891 (type locality) ; Kicking Horse Pass, R-ocky Mountains, 1885 ; Crow's Nest Pass, Rocky Mountains,- 1897. Herb. No. 18,136. {John Macoun.) Yellowhead Pass, Rocky Mts., 1898. (W. Spreadborough). Lesquerella arctica (DC.) S. Wats. Vesicaria arctica, Rich. ; Macoun, Cat. Can. Plants, vol. I, pp. 54, 490. Athabasca River near Lac Brule, northern Alberta, July, 1898. {W. Spreadborough^ Specimens collected by Mr. Spread- borough do not differ in any respect from those collected by Drummond in the same latitude and distributed from the British Museum as Physaria didymocarpa. EuTREMA Edwardsii, R. Br. Northern Labrador, 1897. {A. P. Low.) Not before re- corded from Labrador. Diplotaxis tenuifolia, DC. Bank of the new Welland Canal north of St. Catherines, Ont. ( W. C. McCalla) Not recorded west of Nova Scotia. Myagrum perfoliatum, L. On Callow's Hill, Quebec, Que. {Mrs. Brodie.) Introduced from Europe. Not before recorded from Canada. Polygala verticellata, L. On the open prairie on the ridge near the Insane Asylum, Brandon, Man., 1896. Herb. No. 12,336. {]ohn Macoun) Re- corded from but one other locality in Manitoba. Stellaria or minea, L. Near Niagara, Ont. {R. Cameron.) Western limit in Canada. 1898] Contributions to Canadian Botany. 165 Arenaria arctica, Stev. A single specimen of this species was collected in Northern Labrador by Mr. A. P. Low in 1897. According to Dr. Robin- son this specis is confined to Alaska and adjacent coasts and our other herbarium specimens are all from that region, but there can be no doubt about the identity of Mr. Low's plant. Arenaria capillaris, Poir., var. Formosa, Regel. A. capillaris, var. nardifolia, Macoun, Cat. Can. Plants, Vol. I, p. 70, in part, and vol. I, p. 496. Common in the Rocky Mountains and British Columbia. All our specimens with the exception of those from Sproat, B.C., are this variety. The specimens collected at Sproat arc much larger, with larger flowers (petals more than twice the length of the calyx), and much longer spreading pedicels. The whole plant is glabrous, but is not certainly referable to either A, capillaris or the var. nardijolia. Hypericum nudicaule, Walt. H. Sarothra, Michx. Macoun, Cat. Can. Plants, vol. l, p.. 85. In sandy fields at Sandwich, Ont. Herb. No. 18,317 {John Macoun.) This is the only Canadian locality from which we have specimens of this plant. Helianthemum Canadense, Michx. Our only specimens of this species are from Rice Lake Plains, Ont. ; Sandwich, Ont. {John Macoun,) ; and Niagara Falls, Ont. {R. Cameron.) Helianthemum majus, B. S. P. H. Canadense, Macoun, Cat. Can. Plants, vol. l, p. 60, in part, and vol. I, p. 492. Apparently more widely distributed than the last in Canada. Our specimens are from Kingston, N.S. {John Macoun^ ; Lon- don, Ont. {Dv. Burgess), High Park, Toronto, Ont. {[as. White.) Lake of the Woods, Ont. (Dr. G. M. Dawson). Lechea intermedia, Leggeit. All the references under L. minor, Macoun, Cat. Can. Plants, i66 The Ottawa Naturalist. [December vol. I, p. 6i, are L. intermedia as far as they are covered by our herbarium specimens. We have no Canadian specimens of L, minor, Lechea juniperina, Bicknell. First collected by Dr. C. A. Hamilton in 1891 on dry sterile roadsides, south of Mahone Bay, N.S., and in adjacent pastures, more particularly along the Fauxbourg road. New to Canada. Anoda lavateroides, Medick. In cultivated grounds at St. Catherines, Ont. (>f. C. McGalta.) Geranium pratense, L. In fields at Quebec, Que. (Mrs. Brodie.) Only other Canadian record is from New Brunswick. Ceanothus velutinus, Dougl. ^ Macoun, Cat. Can. Plants, vol. i pp. q6 and 503. C. velutinus van Icevigatus, T. and G ; Macoun, Cat. Can. Plants, vol. I, pp. 96, in part, and 504. Common m the Rocky Mountains and throughout British Columbia. All the references under var. Icevigatus in Macoun's catalogue with the exception of Menzies' from Nootka go here. Ceanothus velutinus, Dougl. var. LyEviGATUS, T. and G. Our only specimens of this plant were collected by Prof Macoun in 1887 at Home Lake, Vancouver Island, not far from Nootka, where it was first collected by Menzies. Rhamnus Frangula, L. In a thicket in North London, Ont., 12 to 15 feet high and 3 to 5 inches thick at base. Collected by Mr. J. Dearness, July 1st, 1898. Well naturalized. Not before recorded. Trifotjum involucratum, Willd. West coast of Queen Charlotte Islands, 1897. (/Jr. C. F. Newcomhe.) Northern limit. Anthyllus vulneraria, L. First noticed in clover fields about New Durham, Oxford 1898] Contributions to Canadian Botany. 167 Co., Ont., in the summer of 1897, and again in 1898. Com- municated by Dr. T. J. W. Burgess. Lespedeza Virginica (L.) Britt. In thickets at Leamington, Ont, 1892. {John Macoun.) New to Canada. Lespedeza frutescens, Brut. L. Stuvei, var. interviedius, Gray. Man. Ed. vi, p. 147. L. reticulata, Macoun, Cat. Can. Plants, vol. l, pp. 119 and 511. Not rare in sandy woods and thickets from Niagara to Sarnia. Lathyrus myrtifolius, Muhl. L. palusfer var, niyrt'folius^Gr. ; Macoun, Cat. Can. Plants, vol. I, p. 122. In thickets at Brandon. Man. Herb. No. 12,528. 1896. (John Macoun.) Western limit. Prunus avium, L, Along a creek bank west of Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ont. {J. Dearness.) Not before recorded in Canada. Spir/ea lobata, Jacq. Escaped from cultivation and naturalized at Boylston, N.S. {Dr.C. A. Hamilton.) Not before recorded in Canada. Spir^a sorbifolia, L. Along roadsides near Baddeck, Cape Breton Island, N.S., 1898. (Jokn Macoun.) Escaped from cultivation, but not be- fore recorded as well naturalized. PoTENTiLLA nemoralis, Nestler ; Macoun, Cat. Can. Plants, vol. i, p. 142. Discovered many years ago at Ste. Ann's, Cape Breton Is- land, N.S., by Dr. Lawson. Collected in 1898 by Prof. Macoun between Ste. Ann's and Baddeck Bay, Cape Breton Island. RiBES floridum, L'Her. ; Macoun, Cat. Can. Plants, vol. i, p. 163. Collections of recent years have shown this species to be more widely distributed west of Manitoba than was supposed. 1 68 The Ottawa Naturalist. [December We have it from Old Wives Creek, Assa., and Medicine Hat, Assa. (John Macoiin.) Maple Creek, Assa. {J. M. Macoun.) and Ste. Anne, west of Edmonton, Alta, ( W. Spreadboroug/i.) Sedum divergens, Wat. Mountains at Yellow Head Lake, Rocky Mountains, Alt. g.ooo ft. July 17th. 1898. (W. l:>'i readh'TOugh.) Not before recorded from Canada though some Vancouver Island references to S. Oregon Ltm may be this species. Epilobium luteum, Pursh. By springs on the mountain side, west of Henry House, Athabasca River, Lat 53°, Alberta. Alt. 5,500. Aug. 30th, 1898. (W. Spreddhorotigli.) Not before collected on east side of Rocky Mountains, and not so far north anywhere in Canada. Angelica sylvestris, L. Meadows and old fields at Louisburg, Cape Breton Island, N.S. 1898. {Johi Macoun) Probably introduced by the French in the 17th Century, Net before recorded. SCABIOSA SUCCISA, L. In an old field at the head of the bay at Louisburg, Cape Breton Island, N.S. 1898. {John M'!Couv.) Probably intro- duced by the French in the 17th Century. Grindelia macrophylla, Greene, Pittonia, vol. in, p. 297. Stout erect herbaceous, 3 feet high, corymbosely branched at summit, wholly glabrous, or with a few scattered short hairs on the pedunculiform branches; leaves thinnish, the radical afoot long or more, lanceolate, scarcely petiolate, incisely serrate ; the cauline oblong or spatulate oblong, 2-4 inches long, sessile and clasping by a broad base, cuarsely serrate, or the uppermost reduced and entire ; involucres large, hemispherical, scarcely glutinous, their narrow bracts with a long slender spreading acumination ; rays many, an inch long or more. Described from specimens collected by Dr. Edw. L. Greene from the margin of a tide-water swamp near Vancouver, B.C., in July, 1890. Represented in the herbarium of the Geological 1898] Contributions to Canadian Botany. 169 Survey by specimens collected by Prof. Macoun at Barclay Sound, Vaucouver Island, 1887, and Burrard Inlet, near Van- couver, B.C., I BiDENS CHRYSANTHEMOIUES, Michx. Beautiful specimens of this species were collected in Lin- coln Co., Ont., Sept i6th, 1897, by Mr. W. C. McCalla. CeNTAUREA SOLSTITIALIS, L. Collected on a farm about 8 miles S.E. of London, Ont. Communicated by Mr. J. Dearness. Crepis Tectorum, L. On lawns, introduced at Wingham, Ont., 1897. {J. A^ Morton.) Common in Woodland Cemetery, London, 1897 {J. Dearness.) Not before recorded in Canada. HiERACIUM r.^.EALTUM, Vill. Don Valley, near Toronto, Ont., 1894. Covering about half an acre of the C. P. Ry. embankment. {W. Scott) New to Canada. Lobelia spicata, Lam. Well established at Holland Cove,entrance to Charlottetown, Harbour, Prince Edward Island. (L. W. Watson.) Arctostaphylos media, Greene, Pittonia, vol. 11, p. 171. Near the Nanaimo River, Vancouver Island (J.R.Anderson.) Not before collected in Canada, and known only from Washing- ton and the above locality. Mr. Piper who collected the speci- mens from which the species was described wrote of the plant as seen by him : " It is found sparingly on dry gravelly ground in Mason County, where both A tomentosa and A. uva-ursi are very abundant, and always in a position to indicate a hybrid origin. It is found most commonly in beds of A. uva-ursi with. plenty of ^. tomeidosa near by, and is easily distinguished from A. uva-ursi by its larger size, merely procumbent (not prostrate) habit, and paler foliage." (Pittonia, vol. II. p. 171.) Mr. Ander- son sends me the following note on the specimens collected by him : " Regarding the Arctostaphylos, Mr. Piper's description of I/O The Ottawa Naturalist. [December occurrence coincides exactly in every respect with mine, and from the fact of finding it surrounded by quantities o( A toraen- tosa and A. uva-ursi, I was also lead to believe it might be a hybrid." This note was written in 1897 ; in 1898 Mr. Anderson collected and sent to the herbarium of the Geological Survey a fine series of specimens, which clearly show that A. 'media is a hybrid. ASCLEPIAS TUBEROSA, L. Tarr Island, River St. Lawrence and below Rockport, Leeds Co., Ont. {Rev. C. J. Young.) Eastern limit in Canada. Gentiana frigida, Hsenke. Above the tree line, alt. 5,000 ft, Nishine^ River, Lat, 62", Yukon District. Aug. 22nd, 1898. (J. B. Tyrrell.) Not befw^e recorded from Canada. This plant differs in several important respects from Behring Sea specimens, agreeing more nearly with specimens from Colorado. Phlox Richardsonii, Hook. Mountains by Selkirk Trail, west of A.ishihik Lake, Yukon District, Sept. 7th, 1898. {J, B. Tyrrell.') Only known before from Arctic sea-coast. Phacelia Purshii, Buckley. Growing among clover at the Central Experimental Farm, Ottawa, Ont. (Wm. T. M-icoun.) Introduced from the United States. Not before recorded in Canada. Plagiobothrys echinatus, Greene, Piitonia, \\>\. in, p. 262. Habit of P. tenellus and of the same size, rather more branching, the branches strict, densely spicate at summit ; the usual pubescence augmented by sparse spreading and raiher hispid hairs ; nutlets rather more than ^ line long, whitish, dis- tinctly carinate on the back at least toward the apex, the tran- sverse rugosities few,slender and indistinct,mcrcly indicating the lines of numerous well elevated and sharp murications, the whole back thus appearing somewhat regularly echinate. Cedar Hill, Vancouver Island, i6th May, 1887. {John Macoun.) 1898] Contributions to Canadian Botany. 171 LiNARIA MINOR, Dcsf. Along the G. T. Ry., near the Cove Bridge, west of London, Ont, June, 1898. (J. A. BalkiviU.) Only one other Canadian record— St. John, N.B. CoLLiNSiA VERNA, Nutt. ; Can. Rec. Sc, Jan, 1895. In woods between Putnam and IngersoU, Ont., 1896. (J. Dearness.) Second Canadian record. MiMULUS MOSCHATUS, Dougl. By a brook on the farm of Mr. Peter Cavanagh, Middle Settlement of Barney's River, Pictou Co., N.S. (Mins Maria Cavanagh.) Not before recorded from Nova Scotia. Though probably introduced or adventitious, the conditions under which it is growing make it appear possible that this species is indigenous in Nova Scotia. It is at any rate well naturalized. Miss Cavanagh writes : '• I have seen it growing there for four or five years. Previous to that time I had no opportunity of examining the broqk. It grows luxuriantly and in great abun- dance in an elevated region along the ridge of the watershed between the rivers flowing north and south. The place is too cold for plum trees." Stachys Germanica, L. Well established near Guelph, Ont. Collected in two widely separated localities near that town. 1897. (J. 0. McGalla.) New to Canada. Amarantus chlorostachys, Willd. North of Leamington, Essex Co., Ont, 1892. (J. Dearness.) Not before recorded in Canada. Chenopodium Vulvaria, L. Plentiful around waste heaps and along roadsides at Gait, Ont. {Wi/liani Herrlatt.) Probably introduced in foreign merchandise. New to Canada. Acalypha Virginica, L. Among small stones and grass along roadsides at Clear- land, N.S. {Dr. C. A. Hamilton.) Not recorded east of Quebec. 1/2 The Ottawa Naturalist. [December Lar/x Lyallii, Parlat. Mr. Walter D. Wilcox found this tree in 1898 on Mt. Hector, about 1 1 miles from Laggan, Rocky Mts. This station extends the limit of P. Lyallii some 3 or 4 miles further north than it was known to occur. Mr. Wilcox was also on the moun- tains at Glacier Lake, head of Saskatchewan River, and at the source of the Athabasca, but did not see this larch, so that its northern limit may now be considered to be definitely fixed. Calamovilfa longifolia, (Hook.) Hack. Amniiophila longifolia, Benth. and Hook. ; Macoun, Cat. Can. Plants, vol. iv, p. 208. Not rare on sandy ground in the northern part of Lamb- ton Co. and southern part of Huron Co., Ont. (/. Dearness.} Eastern limit in Canada. Elymus elymoides, (Raf.) Sweezy. One specimen collected by Prof Macoun in 1897 on the side of a mountain at Crow Nest Pass, Rocky Mts. New to Canada. ■ .- 'W!mmm ^^e^^;:3^.•^ ,. ^ .^ CONTRIBUTIONS TO CANADIAN BOTANY. James M, Macoun, Assist. Naturalist, Geol. Survey of Canada. XIII Reprinted from The Ottawa Naturalist for October, 1899, V^ol. XIII. .-?^ i'? The EDITH and LORNE PIERCE COLLECTION of CANADI ANA ^eens University at Kingston Reprinted from The Ottawa Naturalist for October, 1899, V\^l. XIII, No. 7, pp. 158-169. CONTRIBUTIONS TO CANADIAN BOTANY. By James M. Macoun, Assist. Naturalist, Geol. Survey OF Canada. XIII. Anemone riparia, Fernald, Rhodora, vol. i, p. 51. This species recently described by Mr. Fernald is represented in our herbarium by a sing^le specimen collected in 1882 at Made- line River, Gasp6, Que., and in 1899 at Woodstock, N.B, by Prof. John Macoun. Mr. Fernald g-ives as additional Canadian stations Restigouche Co., N.B. (Fo2vler), and Roberval, Lake St. John, Que. Ranunculus abortivus, L. var. eucyclus, Fernald, Rhodora, vol. 1, p. 52. Stems more slender than in the type ; the branches slender and flexuous ; leaves very thin and lucid ; the basal generally of two sorts, some orbicular with a narrow or closed sinus, others reniform as in typical R. abortivus ; flowers, achenes and receptacles as in the species but smaller. Mr. Fernald records this plant from Lake St. John and Tadousac, Que., but it is not represented among our herbarium aipQcimQns o^ R. abortivus. It should be looked for by Canadian collectors. ISOPYRUM BITERNATUM, T. & G. Though collected before in S, W. Ontario any records of this species are of interest to botanists. Mr. Leroy J. Boughner writes of specimens sent to the Geological Survey department: "This little plant was first collected by me during an expedition of the Simcoe High School Scientific Society on May 21st, 1897. It grew sparsely in a cool spot near Lynn Valley, a few miles east of Simcoe. It is supposed to have been introduced from Ohio by railways." Hesperis matronalis, L. A garden escape near Victoria, Vancouver Island. (A.J. Pifieo.J Not recorded west of Ontario "^ *The Geological limits given in these contributions refer to Canada only. 1899] Macoun — Canadian Botany. 159 Lesquerella occidentalis, Wat. Dry slopes Osoyoos Valley, B.C., 1898. (C. dc B. Greeft.) New to Canada. Viola subcordata, Greene, Pittonia, vol. iii, page 316. Open or partly open land, Esquimault, Vancouver Island, 6th June, 1896. Herb. No. 18,708. (/. 7?. Anderson.) A beautiful species nearly related to V. Howellii. Known only from the above locality. Viola subvestita, Greene. On the cliff below Governor's Bay, Ottawa, Ont., 1899. (/. M. Macoun.) Viola sagittata. Ait. We have no true V, sagittata in Canada, at least none of the specimens in our herbarium are referable to that species. All specimens so named are either V. ovata, Nutt, or V. dentata, Pursh. which may, however, yet prove to be one species. V. OVATA, Nutt. V. sagittata, Macoun, Cat. Can. Plants, vol. i, p. 63 in part. Our herbarium specimens are from dry fields east of Belleville, Ont. [John Macoun.) Near Hamilton, Ont. (/. M. Dickson.) Strathroy and woods about London, Ont. (/. Deaniess.) V. DENTATA, Pursh. V. sagittata, Macoun, Cat. Can. Plants, vol. i, p. 63, in part and vol. i, p. 492. Prince Edward Island. (L. W.Watson.) Point Pleasant, N. S. (John Macoun.) London, Ont. (Dr. Millman.) Komoka, Ont. and London, Ont (J. Dearness.) Port Flamboro, Ont. (/. M. Dickson.) Though kept separate here it is more than probable that V. ovata and V. dentata are forms of the same species. Viola septentrionalis, Greene, Pittonia, vol. iii, p. 334, and Ott. Nat, vol. XII, p. 183. Billings' Bush, S. E. of Billings' Bridge, Ottawa, Ont, 1898. Type locality. Herb. No. 18,561. (J. M. Macoun.) St. Catherines, Ont (W. C. McCalla.) i6o The Ottawa Naturalist. [October Viola Macounii, Greene, Pittonia, vol. iii, p. 335 and Ott. Nat. vol. XII, p. 184. On dry limestone shing-le, growino^ among- grass in the shade of cedars, between RocklifFe Road and Governor's Bay, Ottawa, Ont. Type locality. Herb. No. 18,746. (/. M. Macoun.) The specimens collected by Prof. Macoun, near Hull, and referred to this species in Ottawa Naturalist, represent a new species not yet described. Viola VENUSTULA, Greene, Pittonia, vol. iii, p. 335, and Ott. Nat. vol. XI I, p. 184. In the wet meadows between the Rockliffe Road and Gover- nor's Bay, Ottawa, Ont. Type locality. Herb. No. 18,565. (/. M. Macouii.) Viola cucullata. Ait. A common violet throughout Easterti Canada. The only species of this group of general distribution. Viola Dicksonii, Greene, Pittonia, vol iv, p. 65. V. cuspidatay Ottawa Naturalist, vol. xii, p. 185. Allied to V. cuspidata^ but the herbage light-green, the pu- bescence more sparse and hispidulous, the petaliferous flowers on nearly terete peduncles about equalling the leaves and bibracteol- ate near the base ; sepals lanceolate, either naked or ciliolate : corolla about ^ inch long, of a fine lavender-blue, the paired pet- als, especially the two uppermost, obovate-rhomboidal, the laterals white at base and strongly bearded with indistinctly clavellate hairs, the keel-petal shorter and narrower than the others, more or less conduplicate or convolute especially at the apex, white at base and purple-veined above the white ; summer foliage less broad in proportion to its length than in V. cuspidata and more apt to be cucullate ; apetalous floweis on short but nearly or altogether hypogeous peduncles. A very common violet in the vicinity of Ottawa and probably abundant throughout Ontario, Mr. J. M. Dickson having collected it at Hamilton and Mr. Wm. Scott at Niagara-on-the-Lake, Queens- ton, Cartwright and Toronto. Dr. Greene in Pittonia, vol. iv, p. 1899] Macoun — Canadian Botany. 161 66, has explained fully the unfortunate circumstances which result- ed in the publication of this plant as V. cuspidata in my " Notes on Some Ottawa Violets," in the Ottawa Naturalist for January, 1899. I at that time hesitated to publish even six new violets from the cuciillata aggregate, and thoug-h aware that Dr. Greene's description of V. cuspidata did not answer well for our plant it seemed preferable to include it in that species rather than describe another species. Ample material collected this year shows that we have in the vicinity of Ottawa at least four additional species of violets in this group, two of which have recently been described by Dr. Greene and are included in this paper. Viola populifolia. Greene, Pittonia, vol. iii, p. 337, and Ott. Nat., vol. XI I, p. 186. Port Flamboro, Ont. (/. M. Dickson.) Viola elegantula, Greene, Pittonia, vol. iv, p. 66. Acaulescent and low, the whole plant at the time ot petaliferous flowering barely three inches high and the pe- duncles far exceeding the leaves ; rounded and cordate-reniform leaves pale green and slightly succulent, about ^ inch wide, short- petioled and the petioles erect, the margin lightly crenate and all parts wholly glabrous : peduncles obscurely ang-led, bibracteolate abc ve the middle, the bractlets subulate : sepals lance-linear, ob- tusish : corolla rather more than halt an inch in length, not as broad as long ; petals all similar in size and outline, oblong-obo- vate, obtuse or retuse, light-blue, the lower three with conspicuous violet veins on a white ground at base, the laterals bearing a low and thin tuft of short strongly clavate hairs, or some of them shortened to mere papillae ; two upper petals naked, in full ex- pansion deflected and concealing the calyx : style elongated : late apetalous flowers small, aerial on short horizontal or recurved pe- duncles. In depressions in sandy fields at Eastman's Springs, Ont., and east of Beaver Meadow Lake, near Hull, Que., 1899. (J-^' Macoun.) i62 The Ottawa Naturalist. [October Viola vagula, Greene, Pittonia, vol. iv, p. 67. Larger than the last, with dark green glabrous rather notably fleshy herbage : leaves at time of petaliferous flowering, about an. inch in diameter, somewhat deltoid-cordate, the length equalling or surpassing the breadth, the margin lightly crenate: peduncles, surpassing the leaves, obscurely angled or semiterete,bibracteolate in about the middle, the rather obtuse bractlets with a few obscure glandular teeth : sepals oblong, obtuse : corolla nearly an inch in diameter, the breadth commonly greater than the length ; petals deep violet, at base darkly venulose on a white ground, all obo- vate-spatulate, obtuse or notched, the odd one especially broad and often obcordate, the pair next to it bearing each a dense tuft of ralher long and slender not in the least clavellate hairs : style not prolonged beyond the anthers : apetalous summer flowers aer- ial, but their peduncles short and more or less horizontal ; their capsules short and thick, not dotted. Throughout the whole extent of the Beaver Meadow, W. of Hull, Que., 1899. [/. M. Macoun.) A very beautiful species in- termediate between V. cucullata and V. veniistula. SUBULARIA AQUATICA, L. In fresh water ponds, Attn Island, Aleutian Islands, Behring Sea, Aug. 29th, 1891. (J. M. Macoun. j Not before collected in that region. StELLARIA AQUATICA, ScOpoH. Common at Chelsea, Que. Sph^ralcea munroana, Spach. Dry clay *' benches," Osoyoos Valley, B.C., 1898. (C. de B. Green. ) New to Canada. Acer rubrum. L. Little Turtle River, Rainy Lake, Ont., long. 93°W. (^^. Mclnnis. ) The western limit for this species. Trifolium incarnatum, L. Cultivated for fodder and now becoming extensively natura- lized in Ontario. 1899] Macoun — Canadian Botany. 163 Aracalluscampestris (DC.) var. Johannensis, Fernald, Rhodora, vol. I, p. 88. The Canadian stations given for this plant by Mr. Fernald are Isle d'Orleans below Quebec. (Mrs. Sheprnd^ ProJ. Briinet. ) Mouth of Madawaska River, N.B. ( G. U. Hay, G. F. Matthew.) Crevices of ledges, Aroostook Falls, N.B. (M. L. Fernald.) Rocky banks. Hero's Rapids, Restigouche River, N.B. (G. U. Hay. ) Our only herbarium specimens were collected at Aroostook Falls, N.B., by Mr. G. U. Hay, in 1883 and at Woodstock N.B. by Prof. Macoun in 1890. Aragallus caudatus, Greene, Pittonia, vol, iv, p. 69. Moose Jaw, Assa., June 26th, 1896, Herb. No. 13,957.* (John Macoun.) A very beautiful and distinct species, not at all resembling the common A. Richardsonii of the prairies. Aragallus foliolosus, Hook. Fl. Bor. Am., vol. i., p. 146. O. Jolwsa, T. & G. Fl., p. 339. In describing O. folio losa. Hooker says : " Capitula late ovata seu suhglobosa, ratione plant ce parva, floribus compactis, patentibuSy inferioribus reilexis.'' How an acaulescent plant with compact heads — heads "far more compact" than O. ccerulea — should ever have been referred te O. deflexa will probably never be fully ex- plained ; that it has no very close affinity with that species is evident. The error doubtless originated in contusing O. foliolosa with an apparently acaulescent form of O. deflexa., (Proc. Am. Ac. Arts & Sc, vol. XX, p. 4) the ''''forma subacaulis'' to which Gray referred O. foliolosa. It is indeed probable that in describing O. foliolosa, Hooker had before him the flowers of that species and fruiting specimens of the sub-acaulescent form of O. deflexa which is not uncommon in the region traversed by Richardson and Drummond. Our specimens agree in every particular with his description of O. foliolosa until the fruit is reached, the " rather remote, deflexed " legumes, "an inch long" are those of O. deflexa, while "compact broadly ovate heads" could not refer to * These numbers refer to the herbarium of the Geolog"ical Survey of Canada. 164 The Ottawa Naturatist. [October that species. These fruiting specimens of O. deflexa were also probably included in giving- the range of O. foliolosa. O. foliolosa is from 4 to 7 inches high, occasionally somewhat decumbent; legumes 3-5 lines long, clothed with black hairs, pendent, but when as in flower forming a compact head ; otherwise as described by Hooker. From its habit and range it is evidently a high alpine and northern species. Our herbarium specimens are from Northern Labrador, Herb. No. 18,668. [A. P. Low.) Rocky Mountains. (John Macoun, ) Arctic North America {Dr. Richardso7i.) These latter are young flowering specimens and were dis- tributed from the British Museum as O. foliolosa. Cassia Marilandica, L. Two or three plants near the Thames River, east of Thames- ville, Ont., 1892 ; on flats of Cornwall's Creek, Howard Town- ship, Kent Co.; Aug. 15th, 1892, well established; around the mouth of a government ditch. Tilbury, Ont., 1894. {J. Dearness.) New to Canada and perhaps indigenous in S. W. Ontario. Lathvrus maritimus, Bigel. var. Aleuticus, Greene. A not rare variety on the Labrador coast and on both sides of Hudson Bay. Described from Alaska where, as on Hudson Bay, it is not mixed with, but in many localities takes the place of L. maritimus. The smaller size of the variety is not in my opinion due to habitat as L. maritimus of large size is found in equally ex- posed situations in the same latitudes. Drvas integrifolia, Vahl. Summit of Moose Mt., Elbow River, Rocky Mts. Alt. 7,500 ft. Herb No. 20,001. {John Macoun.) Southern limit in Rocky Mountains. Alchemilla vulgaris, L. Metis, Que., 1897. {Mrs. Brodie.) Not recorded west of Nova Scotia. Rosa pratincola, Greene, Pittonia, vol. iv, p. 13. One of the commonest, if not the most common, roses on the Canadian prairies, extending from Manitoba west to the Rocky 1899] Macoun — Canadian Botany. 165 Mountains and north to the Saskatchewan. There is no R. 'Arkan- sana in Canada. Rosa Macounii, Greene, Pittonia, vol. iv, p. 10. R. Woodsii. Macoun, Cat. Can. Plants, vol. i, p. 521 in part. Moosejaw, Assa. Herb. No. 12,615, in flowerjune 17th, 189b; fruit, Herb. No. 10,532, Aug. 13th, 1895 5 White Mud River, Cy- press Hills, Assa., Herb. No. 10,535; Cypress Lake, Assa., Herb. No. 10,534 ; Spur Creek, Milk River, Assa., Herb. No. 10,533 ! Canmore,Kananaskis and Banff, Rocky Mountains. [John Macoun.) Malig-ne River, Athabasca River, Alberta, Herb. No. 19,451. (W. Spreadboroiigh.) Specimens from nearly all the above localities were named R. Woodsii by Crepin, but we have no R. Woodsii in Canada. ToLMiEA Menziesii, T. & G. Dawson Harbor. Queen Charlotte Islands, B. C. {Dr. C. F. Newcombe.) Cowichan Lake, Vancouver Island. {J. R. Anderson.) Not before recorded from Vancouver Island. Heuchera cylindrica, Dougl. Dawson Harbor, Queen Charlotte Islands, B. C. [Dr. C. F. Newcombe.) A new station. Heuchera parvifolia, Nutt. Open prairies. Crow's Nest Pass, Rocky Mts. Herb. No. 20,- 167. {John Macoun.) Western limit. RiBEs LEUCODERME, Heller, Bull. Torr. Bot. Club, vol. xxiv, p. 93. Nearly all our specimens from Southern Alberta referred to R. oxycanthoides are this species. Drosera longifolia, L. D. Anglica^ Huds. ; Macoun, Cat. Can. Plants, vol. i, pp. 165 & 529. D. intermedia^ var. Americana, Macoun, Cat. Can. Plants, vol. I, pp. 166 & 529 in part; Contr. to Can. Bot. Pt. x, p. Throughout subarctic Canada. Our specimens are from east branch of Hamilton River, Labraglor. Herb. No. 4998. {A. P. 1 66 The Ottawa Naturalist. [October Lo7v,) Salt Lake, Anticosti, Que.; Lake Huron, Ont. ; Porcupine Mts., Man.; Prince Albert, Sask. ; Revelstoke, B. C. ; Beaver Creek, Selkirk Mts., B. C; Home Lake, Vancouver Island. {John Macouii.) Tete Jaune Cache, headwaters of Fraser River, B. C. ( W. Spread borough. ) Megarrhiza Oregana, Torr. Union Bay, Saanich, Vancouver Lsiand, 14th July 1898. [J. R. Anderson.) New to Canada. Galium mollugo, L. St. James' Cemetery, Toronto, Ont., 1897. (IV. ScotL) Only Ontario station. Aploppappus Lyallii, Gray. Mt. Cheam, Lower Fraser, B. C, 1898. {/. R. Anderson.) Western limit. SoLiDAGO PuRSHii, Porter. S. humilis, Macoun ; Cat. Can. Plants, vol. i, p. 213 in part. Our only specimens of this species were collected in 1883, at South West Point, Anticosti, Que., by Prof. Macoun. All the other references under S. huniilis in the Catalogfue of Canadian Plants should probably go to S. decunihens, Greene. Aster Engelmanni, Gray. Brazeau River, North Saskatchewan River, lat. 52*^ 40', 1898. {\V. Spread bo rough.) Northern limit. Arnica Parrvi, Gray. Headwaters of Fraser River, Yellowhead Pass, Rocky Moun- tains, 1898. (W. Spread bo rough.) Northern limit. Arnica tomentosa. Stems clustered, three inches to a span hig-h, simple and gen- erally monocephalus, radical leaves oblanceolate or spatulate, con- spicuously 3-nerved, loosely villous or sometimes tomentose ; cau- line, lanceolate or linear-lanceolate, villous-tomentose : involucre 1899I Macoun — Canadian Botany. 167 and peduncle wooly-tomentose ; rays, numerous, short : achenes hirsutulous ; pappus soft, white, barbellate. Not rare on the eastern slopes of the Rocky Mountains, at higfh altitudes, between the International Boundary and Lat. 54^. Distributed from the Herbarium of the Geological Survey of Can- ada, under numbers 11,606, 14,708 and 19,635. Senecio Robinsii, Oakes. S. aureus. L. var. lanceolatus^ Oakes ; Macoun, Cat. Can. Plants, vol. i, p. 265. A well defined species, easily separable from S. aureus and all its varieties. Rare on Cape Breton Island, N. S. The only speci- mens found by Prof. Macoun in 1898, were at Big Intervale, Mar- garee, and in woods at Baddeck, Vaccinium Pennsylvanicum, Lam. var. angustifolium, Gray. Macoun, Cat. Can. Plants, vol. i, p. 290. Union Road, Prince Edward Island ; in bogs, Louisburg, Cape Breton Island. [John Macoun.^ Recent explorations have shown this plant to be widely distributed in Labrador. Pterospora Andromeda, Nutt. A new locality for this widely distributed but seldom collected plant is Tete Jaune Cache, headwaters of Fraser River, Rocky Mountains. (W. Spreadborough.) Bartonia Iodandra, Robinson. Holyrood, Newfoundland. (Robinson &' Schrenk.) Grand Lake, Newfoundland. [A. Waghorne.) These records in Botan- ical Gazette, vol. xxvi, p. 47. In a bog six miles from Half Way House, Cape Breton Island, N. S. , Aug. 5th, 1898. Herb. No. 19,857. (John Macoun.) Verbena stricta, V^ent. Along the Grand Trunk Railway embankment at Stamford, Ont., 1898. {R. Cameron.) Si. David's, Ont., 1898. (W. Sco/L) New to Canada. 1 68 The Ottawa Naturalist. [October Verbascum Blattaria, L. Roadsides, Mira Bay, Cape Breton Island, N. S. {John Ma- coun.) Not recorded east of Ontario. Tliese specimens are the sub- species V. virgatum, with very glandular shortly decurrent upper leaves, and pedicels shorter than the calyx. Pedicularis capitata, Adams. Moose Mountain, Elbow River, Rocky Mountains, alt. 7,000 ft., 1897. Herb. No. 19,916. {John Macotin.) Mountains near Lac Brule, Athabasca River, Alta. Herb. No. 19,917, 1898. [W. Spreadborough.) Not before recorded from Rocky Mountains, or south of the Arctic Circle in Canada. Plantago eriopoda, Torr. var. cylindrica, Maligne River, Athabasca River, Alberta, July 6th, 1898. Herb. No. 20,073. iW' Spreadborough. )A span hig-h, leaves and scape pubescent, spike \-^%. inch long, cyclindrical. This is pro- bably P. lanceolata, var. B.^ Hook, Fl., vol. ii, p. 123, and very likely a good species. Myrica Carolinensis, Mill, M. cerifera, Macoun, Cat. Can. Plants, vol. i, p. 435. Common on Prince Edward Island, Cape Breton Island and in parts of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick. M. cerifera is not found north of Maryland, U. S. Larix Lyalli, Parlal. Between Kootanie Lake and the St. Mary's River watershed, B. C, at altitudes between 6,500 to 7,000 feet, or a little more, 1898. {Samuel S. Fowler.) Western limit. LiLiUM CoLUMBiANUM, Hanson. Tete Jaune Cache, headwaters of Eraser River, Rocky Moun- tains. 1898. {W. Spreadborough.) Northern and eastern limit. Lysichiton Kamtschatcense, Schott. Wet woods near Canoe River, western slope of Rocky Moun- tains in Lat. 53°. 1889. {W. Spreadborough.) Eastern and, in that part ot Canada, northern limit. 1899] Macoun — Canadian Botany. 169 ScRiPUs RUFLJS, (Huds.) Schrad. Marshes on summit ot Smoky Mountain, Cape Breton Island, N. S., 189S. [John Macoun.) Not before recorded from Nova Scotia. SciRPUS subtekminalis, Torr. In Fresh-water Pond, North Ing^onish, and summit of Smoky Mountain, Cape Breton Ishind, N. S., 1898. [John Macoiin.) Not recorded from Nova Scotia. Carex costellata, Britt. Edge of willow thickets near St. Catherines, Ont., 1898. [W. C. McGalLa.) The only Canadian specimens we have seen. Carex Crawei, Dewey. Damp meadows, Baddeck, (Herb. No. 20,810), and Smoky Mountain, (Herb. No. 20,811), Cape Creton Island, N. S,, 1898. [JoJin Macoun.) Not before recorded from Nova Scotia. Eragrostis capillaris, Nees. A weed in a peach orchard, near St. Catherines, Ont., 1898. [W. C. McCalla.) New to Canada. Glyceria villfoidea. Fries. Near Prince Georg-e's Sound, Hudson Strait, 1897. [Dr. R Bell.) Very abundant on saline mud, St. Paul Island, Behring Sea. [J. M. Macoun,.) Not betore recorded except from Green- land. AsPiDiUM Oreopteris, Swartz. Shawnigan Lake, Vancouver Island, August, 1897. (/. R. Anderson.) One of our rarest ferns and not before collected on Vancouver Island. AsPiDiUM ACULEATUM Swartz. Var. scopulinum, D. C. Eaton. Amongst rocks near the sea, Texada Island, Gulf of Georgia, B. C, Aug. 1897. (/, R. Andeison.) Not before found in Canada west of Province of Quebec, but collected in Washington, U. S. WoQDWARDiA RADiCANS, Smith. Var. Americanum, Hook. Rich soil amongst hummocks, Texada Island, Gulf of Geor- gia, Aug. B. C. 1897. [J. R. Anderson.) New to Canada.