420 OEOLOGIOAL SURVEY OP CANADA. 



LXXXVIII. TllYMKL.EACK.K Me/ereum Family. 

 526. DAPHNE, Linn. vMEZEREUM.) 



(1921.) D. Mk/.erkum, Linn. 



Establisliod on Moutrcul .Mi)untuiii, whero it hu.s oxiisted loj- numy 

 years. There are two old bushes, one witli wliite, the other with the 

 ordinary lihu- tlowor. A few tine healthy shrubs, which produce both 

 flowers and fruit, have been discovered within the last two years 

 in McKay's woods, near Ottawa, by Mrs. Chaniberliu and James 

 Fletcher. They are far from any home, in the thick woods and tiaei-e 

 is no record of the Daphne having been cultivatoil by any person in 

 the neighborhood. 



527. DIRCA, Linn. (LEATHER-WOOD. MOOSE-WOOD.) 



(1022.) D. palustris, Linn. 



Common, in rich and rocky woods in many parts of Ontario and Quebec. 

 Keswick Ridge, N.B. (G. H. Burnett.) Hillsborough, JST.B. (Brittain.) 

 Montreal Mountain, 1821, (Holmes.) Ste. Anne, Champlain Co., and 

 in woods at Nicolet, Q. (St. Cijr.) Abundant in woods on all soils, 

 Ottawa Co., Q. (D' Urban.) Vicinity of Montreal, also at St. Valen- 

 tin, Q., and at Niagara, Ont. (Maclagan.) Very abundant in all low 

 woods around Ottawa. {Fletcher Fl. Ott.) Woods and thickets, very 

 common at Prescott, Ont. (Billings.) Rich woods throughout 

 Northumberland Co., very rare in Hastings Co., but abundant at Owen 

 Sound and Queenston. (Macoun.) Sulphur Spring, Ancaster, and 

 other localities near Hamilton. (Logie.) Carlisle, western Ontario. 

 (Buchan.) 



LXXXIX. ELiEAGNACE.E. Oleaster Family. 



528. EL/EACNUS, Linn. (SILVER BERRY.) 



(1923.) E. argentea, Pursh. 



Abundant on the Isle of Orleans, especially on a low rocky and 

 sandy point, between Grande Anse and Anse a Maranda. (St. Cyr.) 

 Very abundant west of Manitoba throughout the whole prairie 



