iJTO OEOLOCIOAl. Sl^RVKV OK rANADA. 



|)iibo«*coiit, not tomcntosi', with \vi<lo, cimsikxI hairs oii Iho stoin, sparsely 

 so on (ho U|t|K'r siiU'ainl vvvy sii<:;iitly h(>Io\v, ("xccpt on Iho voiny. Its 

 h>aYe5! ari' inuiulato, hut not pinnatitid and tin' margin is thickly cDVorod 

 with woak spinos. Sti'ni one tloworo<l; tlow(>r piirpk-, inner hraets an 

 ineh and a i|iiarter jon^- witli hioal lip< having' Hearioiis or cilialti 

 n»ai\u;ins, tliese hi'aets are thiekly roveri'd willi in iniilc glands wiiirh 

 i;;ive a |io\v(h'ry appearaneo to iheni. In i;-eneral ajipearance tlie two 

 t'ornis have no resenihlanec whatever. 



(125S.) C. altissimus, Willd. var. discolor, <;ray. 



i'lr»ium discolor, Spreng. (iray, Manual, pat^o 1.'73. .Maeuun's Cat., 

 Nos. 10(50 and 10(58. • 



I)rv tields and lhi(d<ets not common. Rank of the St. Lawrence 

 RiviM- tiiriH^ miles west of Prescott, Ont. (Billings.) Meadows and 

 thiokols at Belh-viUe and Ciistleton, Ont. (Macoun.) Vicinity of 

 H;imilt')a, Ont. (Loyie.) Chippewa an<i Maiden, Ont. (Madagan.) 

 Enii;lish"s Woods, not uncommon, London, Ont. (Saunders.) Aijundant 

 in many places along the (Ireat Western Railway, l)ctwcen Sarnia and 

 Hamilton. {Macoun.) 



(125'.t.) C. muticus, Pursh. 



Carduus mxdicu.'^, Nutt. Hook. Fl. I., 302. 



Cirmim muticum, Michx. Gray, IManual, page 273. Macoun's Cat., 

 No. 1061. 



Common in swamps. Newfoundland, Anticosti, Nova Scotia, JSTew 

 Bruswick and westward to the Saskatchewan. (Macoun.) Specimens 

 from Anticosti and the Shickshock Mountains are different in habit 

 from the western ones and agree with the C. glutinosa of Bigelow. 



(1260.) C. Drummondii, Gray. 



Carduus purmlvus, Hook. Fl. I., 302. 



Cirsium Drummondii, Torr. & Gray Fl. II., 459. Macoun's Cat., No. 1064. 



Banks of the Saskatchewan and prairies of the Rocky Mountains. 

 (Drummond.) From Fort Franklin, Lat. 66° to the Saskatchewan. 

 (Gray.) From the head of Lake Winnipegoosis, westward throughout 

 the wooded and mixed prairie country to the Rocky Mountains and 

 Peace River. (Macoun.) 



Var. acaulescens, Gray. 



Cirsium acaule, var. Am^ricanum, Gray. Proc. Acad. Philad. 1863. 



Along the North Saskatchewan west of Fort Pitt; also on the prairie 

 30 miles south east of Battleford, (Macoun.) 



