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Un-named Species of Compositce. 



(1330.) A poor specimen of what may be Echinacea purpurea was 

 f>-athered on the shore of Lake Huron in July, 1871. Since then 

 nothing like it has been seen. As the specimens are without rays and 

 very immature, nothing certain can be predicated of them. 



(1331.) In August, 1883, Mr. James Fletcher picked up in the neighbor- 

 hood of Yictoria, a small rayless composite, which at first sight might 

 be referred to Matricaria discoidea, but which differs very materially 

 from that species in many respects. It is evidently a denizen of ditches 

 and muddy places, but the specimens are too few and incomplete to 

 enable one to make a proper examination for their identification. 

 Lower leaves laciniate, uj)per ones much less so. The whole plant 

 quite smooth and branching at almost every leaf which sheaths both 

 stem and branch. 



LIII. LOBELIACE^. Lobelia Family. 



344. LOBELIA, Linn. (LOBELIA.) 



(1332.) L. cardinalis, Linn. Cardinal Flower. 



Low swamps or marshy meadows and along streams. Low grounds 

 near St. Andrews, .N",S. (Vroom.) On Magaguadavic, Saint Croix, 

 and tributaries, IST.B. (Matthew & Vroom.) From Quebec westward to 

 Owen Sound and north westward along the Georgian Bay. (Macoun.) 



(1333.) L. syphilitica, Linn. G-reat Blue Lobelia. 



Low, wet meadows and borders of marshes. Eather local in Ontario 

 but frequent along the St. Lawience and great lakes from Prescott to 

 Owen Sound, and northward in the limestone disti-icts. (Macoun.) 



(1334.) L. Dortmanna, Linn. Water Lobelia. 



A very remarkable species growing either in water oi' on the boi'ders 

 of ponds and lakes. In a small lake at North Sydney, Caj)e Breton. 

 (Macoun.) Mahone Bay, Lunenbui-g Co., IST.S. (Ball.) Vicinity of 

 Halifax, N.S. (Lawson.) Shallow borders of ponds and lakes, rather 

 rare, N.B. (Fowler's Cat.) JSTeai- Lake Mistassini. (./. Richardson.) 

 Very abundant in Twelve Mile Lake and the Bushkong Lakes, Victoria 

 "Co., Ont. (Macoun.) Lake Joseph, Muskoka. (Burgess.) Vermil- 

 lion Bay, C. P. E., with Subularia aynatria. (Fletcher.) Slave Lake, 

 English Eiver, and Portage la Loche, Lat. 57°. (Richardson.) 



