200 Canadian Record of Science. 



wap I;ake, B.C., alt. 6,000 ft. ; Avalanche Mt., Selkirk Mts., 

 B.C., alt. *7,000 ft. {Jas. M. Macoun.) Western Summit of 

 North Kootanie Pass, Eocky Mts. ; South of Tulameen 

 Eiver, B.C., alt. 6,000 ft.. {Dr. G. M. Dawson.) A part 

 of the specimens referred to this variety are perhaps inter- 

 mediate between it and the next. 



SiLENE DouGLASii, Hook, var. visciDAj Eobinson, Proc. 

 Amer. Acad, xxvii, 145. 

 On slopes of high mountains at Kicking Horse Lake, 

 Eocky Mts. {John Macoun.) 



SiLENE DouQLASii, Hook., var. MULTiCAULis, Eobinson. 

 S. multicaulis, Macoun, Cat. Can. Plants, Vol. II., p. 309. 

 Stump Lake, South of Kamloops, B.C. {John Macoun.) 



SiLENE Gallica, Linu. 



Common at Oak Bay, Goidstream and Victoria Arm, 

 Vancouver Island. {John Macoun.) Introduced. 



SiLENE NOCTiPLORA, Linn. 



A weed in gardens at Eupert's House, James Bay. {Jas. 

 M. Macoun.) In waste places at Eevelstoke, B.C., and 

 Cedar Hill, Vancouver Island. {John Macoun.) Not be- 

 fore recorded fi*om west of Winnipeg. 



Lychnis apfinis, Vahl. 



Between Lake Athabasca and Chesterfield Inlet. Lat. 

 63° 21', Long. 102°, 1893. (Jas. W. Tyrrell.) Cape Prince 

 of Wales, Hudson Strait. {Dr. R. Bell.) 



Lychnis elata, Wats. 



Our only specimens of this species are from Avalanche 

 Mt., Selkirk Mts., B.C., alt. 7,000 ft. {Jas. M. Macoun.) 



Lychnis Taylors, Eobinson, Proc. Amer. Acad.xxviii, 150. 



Very slender 1 to 1^ feet high, puberulent, nearl}' smooth 

 below, glandular above; stem erect, bearing 3 to 4 pairs of 

 leaves and two or three long, slender, almost filiform 1 to 3 

 flowered branches ; leaves thin, lance-linear, acute or 



