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short-petiolulate or sub-sessile : flowers dioecious or polygamo- 

 dioecious, g^reenish or purplish, the panicles 1.5 to 3 dm. high, 

 with ascending branches: sepals oblong": carpels glabrous or 

 minutely glandular-pruinose ; achene excluding the persistent 

 style 6 or 7 mm. long, 2 or 3 mm. wide, compressed, strongly 

 ancipital, with three strong or somewhat branching ribs on 

 each side: filaments yellowish, greenish, or purplish, elongated, 

 slightly clavellate ; anthers linear, mucronate. 



Represented in the herbarium of the Geological Survey 

 of Canada by many sheets from the west and by specimens col- 

 lected at Eel River, N.B., by Robert Chalmers, and on the 

 St. John River above Woodstock, N.B., by John Macoun, 

 Mr. Fernald has examined specimens collected by Mr. G. U. 

 Hay at South Tobique Lakes and St. John, N.B., and by 

 Bourgeau near Lake Winnipeg. 



Ranunculus Pallasii, Schlecht. 



Mosquito Bay, Lat. 60*^ 42', east coast of Hudson Bay. 

 Aug. i8th, 1898. Herb. No. 23,003. {A. P. Low.) Not 

 recorded from Eastern America. 



Berberis brevipes, Greene, Ott. Nat., vol. xv, p. 42. 



Crow's Nest Pass, Rocky Mts., 1897. Herb. No. 18,080. 

 {Joh7i Macotm.) 



Sarracenia purpurea, L. var. heterophvlla, Torr. 



In bogs, Madawaska River, Algonquin Park, Ont. 1900. 

 {Joh?i Macoun.) Only Canadian specimens in herbarium of 

 Geological Survey. 



Dentaria geminata, Wats. 



Koksita, Vancouver Island. {R. H. Jamesoyi.) New to 

 Vancouver Island. 



Viola mistassinica, Greene, Pittonia, vol. iv, p. 6. 



Lake Mistassini, Que. 1885. (/. M. Macoun.) Rich- 

 mond Gulf , Hudson Bay. {IVtn. Spread borough.) West branch 

 of. Hamilton River, Labrador. {A. P. LO70.) Banfi", Rocky 

 Mountains. (A^. B. Sanson.) Cassiar Trail, west of Dease 



