94 <iKOI,()(ili- \I. SIKVKY OK CANADA. 



KoiiLjo, il (/)' Urhiin. ) V ii-inily «1" (.)lUiwa. ( Flclchcr Ft. Ott.) Moist. 

 tliii-ki'ts and swamps iioiir Piost-oK .lunctioii, 0\\{. {IiilHn<is.') JJordois 

 of jiomis antl inarshos ilirou::;liout, central Oiitaiio. {Mticoun.) Wolib 

 Island, ('lupju'wa, an. 1 MaM.Mi. Ont. ( Mai'/a,/,T)i.) Vicinity of Tjondon, 



KG. NEMOPANTHES, Raf. iMOUNTAIN HOLLY.) 



(3%.) N. Canadensis, DC. 



Il,'.v Oim/./. »(.fi.v, Miclix. Fl. II., L'L'9. 

 Cold, wet woods and swamps. JIalitax Co. and rictou, JSI.S. {MrKaij.) 

 In cold, wot woods N.li. ; common. (Fowlers Cat.) Abundant in 

 wo«h1s. (Jaspc iRMiinsula. (Jfacoun.) Eiviere dn Loup, (I (Thimias-) 

 Common on tjnciss i-ocks and in swamps, Eivcr Ron<i-c, (.},. (D'Urhan.) 

 Swamps around Ottawa; common. {Fletcher FL Ott.) Moist ground 

 near Prcscotl Junction, Out.; rare. {Billuujs.) Peat bog, 5 miles 

 north of Colborne ; swamps near P.artridgo Lake, Addington Co. ; 

 taniarac swamp, North Hastings, Ont. (Macoun.) Vicinity of Lon- 

 don, Ont. ; vei-y common in Muskoka. (Burgess.) 



Excluded Species. 



Ilex opacii, Ait., and /. glabra, Gray, are reported from Halifax, N.S., 

 by Dr. Soinmers, in a catalogue of Nova Scotian plants, j)ublished in 

 the Pi-oceedings of the Nova Scotia Institute of Natural Sciences, 1875- 

 "6. Hooker, on the authority of Pursh, credits those species to Canada. 

 I exclude them on the ground of insutlicient evidence, and because 

 their range in the United States is south of our limits. 



XXVI. CELASTEACE.E. Staff-tree Family. 



117. CELASTRUS, Linn. (STAFF-TREE.) 



(397.) C. scandens, Linn. Wax-work. Bitter-Sweet. 



C. buUatus, Linn. Pursh, 168. 



On the borders of rivers in Quebec. (Brunei.) On Montreal moun- 

 tain. (McGill Coll. Herb.) Common in Ontario; climbing high over 

 bushes and young trees, in thickets, and along rivers, from Ottawa 

 (Fletcher) to Mamaisne, east coast of Lake Superior. (R.Bell.) Valley 

 of the Assiniboine, east of Brandon, Man. (Macoun.) 



