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folia, Euphorbia polygonifolia, Hudsonia tomentosa, Lechea intermedia, 
and Teucrium canadense var. littorale, with various other species, 
find their northern limit, and in the brackish tidal flats of the Mira- 
michi River Lophotocarpus spongiosus and Samolus floribundus. 
The only strictly endemic flowering plants at present known from the 
province are apparently Aster lawrentianus Fernald var. contiguus 
Fernald and A. subulatus Michx. var. obtusifolius Fernald. 
LYCOPODIUM TRISTACHYUM Pursh. Blueberry barrens, Bathurst 
(Blake 5419); Loggieville (5610); Newcastle (5659); in pine woods, 
Portage Island (5685); St. Louis de Kent (5725). I also found 
specimens collected by Cox in “sandy barrens behind Chatham, 1897,” 
in the herbarium of the Miramichi Natural History Society at 
Chatham. 
LOPHOTOCARPUS SPONGIOSUS (Engelm.) J. G. Sm. Brackish tidal 
mud, French Fort Cove, Miramichi River, Newcastle (5625); brack- 
ish tidal mud, mouth of Barnes Creek, two miles above mouth of 
Moulies River (5731). Recorded (as Sagittaria calycina var. spongiosa) 
in Fowler’s list ! (p. 67) from “near the head of the tide in the Richi- 
bucto River, and at Rothesay, Fowler, Herb.; Tobique River, Hay.” 
Specimens collected by Fowler at Bass River, 28 July 1870, are in 
the Gray Herbarium. 
DIGITARIA IscHaEMUM Schreb. (D. humifusa Pers.: see Hubbard, 
RĦaopora xviii. 231 (1916).) Along Intercolonial Railway, Petit 
Rocher (5489). 
PANICUM SUBVILLOSUM Ashe. Bathurst (5383); sandy beach, 
Miscou Harbor (5570). The only Panicum found. Recorded by 
Hitchcock & Chase (Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. xv. 228 (1910)) from 
Kent County, 1875, Fowler; also at Shediac Cape, 23 July 1914 
Hubbard 716. 
SETARIA VIRIDIS (L.) Beauv. var. WetnMANNi (R. & S.) Brand. 
(See Fernald & Wiegand, Ruopora xii. 133-134 (1910).) Along 
Intercolonial Railway, Petit Rocher (5488). 
SCIRPUS CAMPESTRIS Britton var. FERNALDII (Bicknell) Bartlett. 
Brackish sands, Miscou Harbor (5584). New to the province, and a 
considerable range extension.— Our common form, var. paludosus 
(A. Nels.) Fernald, was also collected at Bathurst 5427) and on 
Bay du Vin Island in Miramichi Bay (5706), and a form approaching 
1 Rev. James Fowler, A Preliminary List of the Plants of New Brunswick (Nat. Hist. Soc. of 
N. B. Bull. no. IV). St. John, N. B. 1885. Pages [1]-82. 
