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. 

 Lespedlza Virgimc.\ (L.) Britt. 



Tn thickets at Leamington, Ont, 1892. (John Macoiin.) 

 New to Canada. 

 Lespedez.\ frutescexs, Britt. 



I J. SiuveA, var. 1 nternifdiuf^. Gray. Man. Ed. vi, p 147. 



L. reticulata, Macoun, Cat. Can. Plants, vol. I, pp. i 19 and 

 511. 



Not r.irc in s iivjy woods and thickets from Niagara to 

 Sarnia. 



Iv.^THYRUS MVKTIFOIIUS, Muhl 



L. palds'er \'ar. nivrf foUiis, Gr. ; Macoun, Cat. Can. Plants, 

 vol. I, p. 122. 



In thickets at Brandon. Man. Herb. No. 12,528. 1896. 

 {John Aficniv.) Western limit. 

 Prunus .■wiu.m, I,, 



Along a creek bank west of Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ont. 

 (,/. ''(',(11 ii('<s) Not before recorded in Canada. 

 SpiR-f.A Lor5\ lA, J icq. 



Escaped from cultivation and naturalized at Boylston, N.S. 

 {Dr.C. A. llamJtoii.) Not before recorded in Canada. 



SPlU.tA SORBIFOUA. L. 



Along roadsides near Baddcck, Cape Breto.i Island, N.S., 

 1898. (Jo^in M ic>ii u.) Escaped from cultivation, but not be- 

 fore recorded as well naturalized. 



Poi!;vTii.L\ ni:mok >i.is, No-tkr ; ?\lic-ii% Cat C i ;. Phinl^, vol. i, 

 p. 141. 



Discovered many years ago at Stc. .Ann's, Cape Breton Is- 

 land, N.S., h)^ Dr. Lawson. f ollcctcd in 1898 b\' Prof. Macoun 

 between Ste. .Ann's and Biddeck Bay, Cape Breton 

 Island. 

 RiHES FLORii'U.M, I.'Hf. ; Mi^cjiin, Ca^ Cm. PlintP, vnl. t, <). 163 



Collections of recent years have, shown this . species, to be 

 more widely distributed west of ^Manitoba than was supposed. 



