1917] The Ottawa Naturalist. 5 7 



Camassia quamash Green forma albiflora f.n. Perianth white. 

 Common, brackish marshes, Alberni; rare about Victoria; also in Wn. 

 The following new varieties and specie-; may be noted: 

 Rrigeron philadelphicus L. var glabra v.n. Plants 2-7 dm high; 

 stems nearly glabrous or somewhat hirsute; leaves thick, nearly or 

 quite glabrous, denticulate to sinuate-denticulate; tegules sometimes 

 purple-tipped, not hirsute. Salt marshes, Murdoch's Landing and 

 Alberni. It bears much the same relation to the species as Castilleja 

 Dixonii Fernald to C. miniata Dougl. ; i.e., it is probably a holophvtic 

 form. It differs mainly from the species in its thick glabrous or 

 glabrale leaves. 



Astei Carteriana s.ri". Stem slender, usually leafy to the top. 

 rather softly herbaceous especially above, 2-6 dm. high simple or 

 usually with 3-6 comparatively long erect branches each terminating 

 in a solitary head; the short pubescence of the stem uniform above, in 

 lines below; leaves usually entire, sometimes serrate at the middle, 

 very thin, glabrou- except for occasional cilation at the base and the 

 ;le scabrous-ciliolate line on the margins, rather dark-green, nar- 

 rowly oblong or narrowly lanceolate, the largest 7-12 cm. long and 

 5-7 mm. wide, mostly slightly narrowed to a sessile base, the apex 

 pungently indurated, the lowesl more or less withered at flowering and 

 some of them somewhat petioled; heads 5.5-5 cm. broad, the tegules 

 usually very leafy and often exceeding the rays, like the leaves in 

 texture margin and apex, but also often -mailer. 6-9 mm. I rect 



subequal, more or less scarious towards the base, loosely imbricated, 

 lanceolate glabrous exo die short-ciliolate margin, apex pun- 



gently tipped; rays blue, the limb 15-20 mm. long; pappus brownish- 

 white; achenes very pubescent. Common along the outo of 

 stony and gravellv shores. Cameron and Home Lakes, Vancouver 

 Island; W. R. Carter'- Nos. 225, 226, Sept., 1916. Distinguished 

 from such related forms as .!. foliaceus (Gray) Howell, and .1. 

 Douglasii Lindl. by its solitan heads at the end of the lonp ei 

 branches, the lower habit, the thinner leaves, the often more foliaceous 

 tegules, and the longer rays; in foliage not unlike A. microlonchus 

 Greene, from which it differs in the smooth leaf-surf ace : the much 

 longer rays, and the very different tegules; nearest A. Douglasii but 

 with a different habitat, thinner leaves, larger heads, etc. 



The following changes in nomenclature are suggested: 

 Allium Watsoni Howell (.-!. vancouverense Macoun, Cat. Can. Id. 

 iv. 39). Through the kindness of Prof. A. R. Sweetser, of the Uni- 

 versity of Oregon, I have been able to compare the plants which have 

 borne the above names. A- the dower- of the Mt. Arrow-mith plants 

 were voung and those of the Oregon plant mature, the former, in their 

 slightly longer and narrower ] perianth-segments, seemed at first sight 

 to he different; but a few more mature flowers showed no essential 



