Cotitrilmtions to Canadian Botany. ^75 



Nepeta Glechoma, Beuth. 



"Waste places, Battle Harbour, Labrador. {Rev. A. 

 Waghorne.) Not before recorded from Labrador. 



Plantago borealis, Lange. 



P. maritima, Macoun, Cat. Can. Plants, Vol. I., pp. 393^ 

 and 575 in part. 



Commonly referred to P. maritima, but a good species. 

 Our specimens are from Battle Harbour, Labrador, Herb. 

 No. 16,890. {Rev. A. Waghorne.) Fort Chimo, Labrador, 

 Herb. No. 15,955. {A. P. Low.) Nachvak, Labrador, 

 Herb. No. 16,891 ; Nottingham Island, Hudson Strait, 

 Herb. No. 16,892. Fort Churchill, Hudson Bay. Herb. 

 No. 16,889. {Dr. R. Bell.) P. paucifiora, Pursh, is a very 

 different plant, and has nothing to do with this species. 



AsARUM Canadexse, L. 



Mr. E. P. Bicknell, in the Bulletin of the Torrey 

 Botanical Club for November, 1897, has described a new 

 species of Asariim — A. rejiexum — hitherto confounded 

 with A. Ganadense. We have in the herbarium of the 

 Geological Survey typical specimens of both species from 

 the United States, A. Canadense from the New England 

 States, A. rejiexum from Ohio. Our Canadian species are 

 all from Ontario. Those collected at Ottawa in the 

 eastern part of the province very nearly approach A. 

 Canadense, as described and figured by Mr. Bicknell ; those 

 from the western part of the province are referable to A. 

 reflexurii rather than to A. Canadense, but none of our 

 specimens are typical representatives of either species, the 

 series apparently connecting the two species. Canadian 

 collectors should study this genus in the field with Mr. 

 Bicknell's descriptions in hand. 



Since writing the above Mr. J. M. Dickson, of Hamilton, 

 has sent me drawings of two specimens of Asarum, one of 

 which represents A. Canadense, the other A. rejiexum,. 



