1898] Contributions to Canadian Botany. 169 



Survey by specimens collected by Prof. Macoun at Barclay 

 Sound, Vaucouver Island, 1887, and Burrard Jnlet, near Van- 

 couver, B.C., 1889. 



BlDEiNS CHKVSANTHEMOIDES,. Alichx. 



Beautiful specimens of this species were collected in Lin- 

 coln Co., Ont., Sept. i6th, 1897, by Mr. W. C. McCalla. 



Cent.'^urea solstitialis, L. 



Collected on a farm about 8 miles S.E. of London, Ont. 

 Communicated by Mr. J. Dearness. 



Crehis Tpxtorum, L. 



On lawns, introduced at VVingham, Ont., 1897. (/. A 

 Morton.) Common in Woodland Cemetery, London, 1897 

 (/. Deiirness.) Not before recorded in Canada. 



HiEKACIUM PR^ALTUM, 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 MFDIa, Greene, Pittnnij, vol. ii, p. 171. 



Near the Nanaimo River, Vancouver Island (J.R.Andermn.) 

 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 tomenfo><a and A. uv".-urs> are 

 very abundant, and always in a position to indicate a hybrid 

 origin. It is found most commonly in beds of vl. uv i-ur^i with 

 plenty of ^. tomentosa near by, and is easily distinguished from 

 A. v.va-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 



