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springs in low wet places, N.B. (Foivler's Cat.) Common throughout 

 Quebec and Ontario. (Macoun.) Saskatchewan. {Richardson.) 



(*736.) C. alternifolium, Linn. 



In the woody, and principally in the barren country of British 

 America. {Richardson.) On the Arctic islands. {Parry.) On the 

 Eocky Mountains. {Drwnmond.) Yicinity of Quesnel, and u]) the 

 Telegraph Trail to Fort St. James, Stuart Lake, B.C. {Maeoun.) 

 Ilgacho Bj'ook, northern B.C. {Dawson.) Kotzebue Sound to Cape 

 Lisburne. {Rothr. Alask.) Greenland. {Hook. Arct. Pi.) 



184. PARNASSIA, Tourn. (GRASS OF PARNASSUS.) 



(737.) P. palustris, Linn. 



Throughout Canada, as far north as the Arctic Circle, and in swamps 

 in the Rocky Mountains, Lat. SS^-SG""; Labrador and Newfoundland; 

 and Cape Newnham, on the west coast, Lat. 59°. {Hooker.) Metajjedia 

 Eiver, Q., near its mouth. {Macoun.) Island of Anticosti. {Brunei.) 

 On damp soil, Little Melis, Q. {Harrington.) Under the bank at Fort 

 Francis, Rainy River, and westward to the Pacific. {Macoun.) Pine 

 River Pass, in the Rocky Mountains, and frequent in British Columbia. 

 {Dawson.) From Oxford House to York Factory, and on the Churchill 

 River. {R. Bell.) 



(738.) P. parvlflora, DC. 



Labrador. {Butler.) Romantic Islet, north-east, Magdalen Islands, 

 Gulf of St. Lawrence. {McKay.) Grand Metis, Q. {Burgess.) Borders 

 of the Rivers Ste. Anne, Jacques Cartier, Q. {Brunet.) Yery abundant 

 along the Gasjje coast from Cape Rosier to Ste. Anne des Monts ; also 

 up the Ste. Anne River, Q. ; north shore of Lake Superior, near Pic 

 River. R'ed Bay, Lake Huron ; Fort Edmonton on the Saskatchewan, 

 and on rocks, Peace River, Canyon, Lat. 56°. {Macoun.) Sandy banks, 

 formed by the floods in the rivers among Rocky Mountains, Lat. 52°-56°. 

 {Driimmond.) 



(739.) P. Caroliniana, Michx. 



P. palustris, Pursh, 208. 



Crevices of rocks and on floating logs in rivers. Flat lands, Resti- 

 gouche, N.B. {Chalmers.) Andover, Yictoria, N.B. {J. E. Wetmore.) 

 Yicinity of Quebec ; Isle of Orleans. {Brunei.) Crevices of rocks, 

 Niagara Falls ; Presqu' He Point, Lake Ontario ; and Pott's Mill Dam, 

 Brighton, Out. ; Red Bay, Lake Huron. {Macoun.) Banks of the 



