74 NEW AND RARE PLANTS—LAWSON. 
western part of Ontario and others collected by Senator ScHULTZ 
in several places in the North-West, show its extensive range. 
3. Gaillardia aristata. The Gaillardias are all southern 
and western plants, none occurring east of the Mississippi, G. 
puta isa favorite in gardens. This one is quoted by ToRREY 
and Gray from Missouri, Saskatchewan and Oregon. But the 
form sent by Mr. SToxEs is a large robust lanuginose plant that 
does not agree with any of the forms described in botanical 
works. Prof. MAcoun, to whom I showed specimens, informs 
me that this is the form the plant takes when grown on the prairie 
land after it has been ploughed. | 
4, Helianthus giganteus var. Thisis also a form of a very 
variable species. 
5. Heliopsis levis, Persoon, a rather diminutive but neat 
broad-leaved perennial sunflower, the only sunflower, in fact, fit 
for a buttcn hole, if any are. It derives its name from its resem- 
blance to the true sunflower. It grows in Ontario as well as on 
the Western Prairies. 
. Physostegia Virginica var. speciosa. Gray, False Dragon 
Head. This is a robust, showy perennial, 44 feet in height when 
in flower, with dark green lanceolate strongly serrated leaves 
and large spikes of variegated purple flowers. This plant is 
different from the ordinary garden form of Physostegia Virginica, 
‘being much larger in all its parts, with larger, darker, almost 
coriaceous leaves,and long spikes of very bright coloured flowers. 
It is so different that it has been described as a distinct species. 
It is the Dracocephalum speciosum of SWEET’s British Flower 
Garden, t. 93, and Physostegia wmbricata of Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 
3386. It differs from the ordinary cultivated form of the species 
by its dense spikes of horizontal flowers, the spikes panicled ; 
-the flowers are also of a darker and richer colour. 
Petasites vulgaris, a large English herb with leaves two feet 
across, City of St. John, where it was observed in vacant 
lots in the summer of 1881. It seems to have spread from a 
garden after the great fire, and is fairly naturalized. Additional 
particulars respecting this and some other plants will be given in 
_a future paper. 
