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lonn is meant. Xoigliborhooil of Jlaliliix, N.S. (^Lawson.) Ticloii, 

 N.S. (JlfcAlo/.) l»aiT8l)oro', Cumborland Co., N.S. (IJow.) Kalhor 

 common near tho coast. N.B. (Fowler's Cat.) Abundant throughout 

 Ontario, and extending westward to the Kuministiquia Eivor, Thunder 

 Bay. {Macaun.) 



Var. repens, <Jray. 



Calystfgia scpiwn, \ ar. pubescens, Gray, Man. Ed. V., 376. 



In this variet}^ the leaves are more or less pubescent and the bracts 

 and leaves fringed with soft liairs. Lake of tho Woods, Turtle Moun- 

 tain, and Ti-ador's fload near Wood Mountain, 40lh parallel, all in flower. 

 On tho third pi-airie steppe it only appeal's along the borders of streams 

 in sheltered positions. {Dauson.') Souris and Qu'A])pelle rivei-s. 

 (J. M. Macoun, C. P. li. Coll.) Frequent in thickets as far west as the 

 Hand Hills. Long. 112°, {Macoun.) Canada to the Eocky Mountains. 

 {Richardson cf- Drummond.) 



Var. maritima. (?) 



Specimens growing in a brackish marsh and occasionally covered by 

 spring tides were obtained, near Sydney Mines, Cape Bi-eton, in 1883. 

 All i^arts of the plant were very jDubescent and quite diflerent from 

 the pubescent form from the prairie region. On the Magdalen Islands 

 in the Gulf of St. Lawrence. {McKay.) Eel Eiver, N.B. {Fletcher.) 



(1599.) C. arvensis, Linn. Bindweed. 



Naturalized. On ballast heaps at Pictou, N.S. {Macoun & McKay.) 

 In cultivated tields rather rare, N.B. {Fowler's Cat.) Beauharnois 

 Co., Q., and at Strathroy, Ont. {McGill Coll. Herb.) Near Cumming's 

 Biidge, and in the Public Park, Ottawa. {Fletcher Fl. Ott.) Bank of 

 the St. Lawrence, a mile west of Prescott, Ont. {Billings.) Introduced 

 into gardens at Belleville, with strawberry plants and sjjreading ; 

 roadsides near Essex Centre, Ont. {Macoun.) Vicinity of London, 

 Ont. (Biiryess.) Vicinity of Hamilton, Out. {Buchan.) On the 

 Insane Asj-lum Farm, Toronto. {Fowler.) 



427. CUSCUTA, Linn. (DODDER.) 



(1600.) C. arvensis, Beyi-ich. 



On dry gravelly ridges, Manitoba and westward. Climbing over 

 low plants of Lygodesmia juncea at Pine Creek, Manitoba, and on 

 Artemisia friyida on the Cypress Hills. Specimens identified by Dr. 

 Englemann. 



