;>72 OEOLOUICAL SUKVEV Oh" CANADA. 



moiul.) Foi>t Hills bot wren the Norlli ami Middle Foi-k of Old Man 

 River, also Fool Hills of Ivoi'ky Moiiiilaiiis, and wosloni side of the 

 \vatt'r->liod. South Koolauio I'ass; (i)u(M'ii ('harlot to Islands. (Daivson.) 

 Ounalashka. {Jiothr. Alas/x.) GreiMilaml, south of the Arctic Circle. 

 (JIooL Ant. PI.) 



Var. major, Flnh. (V) 



A. ft)rni wliith is cxtroinoly like this has been coUcctiul at Yarmouth, 

 N.8., near the railway station hy the writer, and at Metapedia, N.B., 

 by Mr. Fletcher, ot the I'arlianientar}- Jjihrar^-. The specimens in qties- 

 tion have lari::;o yellow llowers, with yellowish l)racts, and loni^ narrow 

 leaves; they are taller and more branching than the usual form of 

 M. Cristi-gaUi. This may be the introduced plant ft)und at llalil'ux. 



457. MELAMPYRUM, Linn, iCOW-WHEAT.) 

 (1710.) M. Americanum, Miehx. 



M. sylcaticum, Hook. Fl. II., 1U6. 



M. pratense, var. Americanum, Benth. in DC. Prodr. X., 584. 



M. lineare, Lam. ^ Pur.sh, Fl. II., 430. 



Swamps, grassy thickets, and open sandy woods. Anticosti, Nova 

 Scotia, New Brunswick, Quebec, Ontario and westward to the Coast 

 Eange, B.C. The British Columbian specimens have broad nearly 

 hastate leaves, but otherwise the specimens diifer very little from 

 those of Anticosti. It is probable that the form growing in j)eat bogs 

 is distinct from that found in sandy woods, but our present specimens 

 are insufficient to determine that question. 



LXXl. OEOBANCHACE^ Broom-rape Family. 



458. APHYLLON, Mitchell. 'CANCER-ROOT.) 

 (1120.) A. uniflorum, Gra}. 



Orobanche uniflora, Linn. Pursh Fl. II., 431. 

 0. hiflora, Nutt. Hook. Fl. II., 93. 

 Anoplantlius unijiorus, Endl. DC. Prodr. XL, 41. 



Parasitic on the roots of various plants. Chiefly found on dry 

 sandy soils in open woods. Newfoundland. {Miss Brcnton.) Nash- 

 waakis, N.B. {Prof. Fowler.') Petitcodiac, N.B. {Brlttaln.) Near 

 Kingston Mills, Ont. {Maclagan.) On the Eice Lake Plains, near 



