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Cypripedium candidum, Wilkl. 



About three miles from Port Elgin, Ont. {A. R. Innis.) 

 Dr. James Fletcher found large numbers of this plant grow- 

 ing on hummocks on a damp prairie lour miles south ot 

 Brandon, Man., in the beginning of July, 1899. Mr. Norman 

 Criddle also collected the same plant at Aweme, Man., near 

 the Douglas swamp about 50 miles east of Brandon. 



Smilax rotundifolia, L. 



Collected at Lake Annis and at Brazil, Yarmouth Co., 

 N.S., in 1S98 and again in 1902 by Mr. J. E. Barteaux. Not 

 before recorded east of Ontario. 



Streptopus brevipes, Baker. 



In deep hemlock woods, Chilliwack River, B.C. No. 

 34,109. [J. M. Macoun.) New to Canada. 



Streptopus curvipes, Vail., Bull. Torr. Bot. Club, vol. 28, p. 267. 

 Apparently the commonest species in British Columbia. 

 Easily separable from S. roseus by 'ts simple habit and non- 

 geniculate and much shorter peduncles. Our specimens are 

 from Asulcan Glacier, Selkirk Mts , No. 27,646a; Revelstoke, 

 B.C., No. 27,646.' {John Macoun.) Port Simpson, B.C. {Jas. 

 McEvoy.) Cascades on Skagit River, B.C. {Dr. G. M. Daw- 

 son.) Common in the Chilliwack Valley, B.C. (/. M. Macoun.) 

 Specimens of simple habit but with the long geniculate 

 peduncles ot 5". roseus were collected on Queest Creek, Shus- 

 wap Lake, B.C., by J. M. Macoun July 27th, 1889. 



Vagnera brachypetala, Rydb., Bull. Torr. Bot. Club, vol. 28, 

 p. 268. 



Described from specimens collected near the Asulcan 

 Glacier in 1897 by Mrs. Cornelius Van Brunt. A common 

 species in British Columbia, especially on Vancouver Island. 

 Distinguished by its short petals and purple fruit. 



Brodi^a lactea, Wat. 



Rocky bank 5 miles from Chilliwack, B.C. No. 54,041. 

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