422 GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA. 



oo-lalio " by the Indians who make a drink from the borrios. (Fletcher.) 

 Thoroui^hout Canada to Fort Franklin on the Mackenzie River, and 

 from Newfoandlaiid and IFudson Hay to the Rocky Mountains. 

 (liichardson il- Druinmond.) luistcrn British America, Jiorth of arctic 

 circle. (Hooh. Arct. PI.) 



(1025.) S. argentea, Nutt. BuflFalo-Beny. 



Jlippoplur argentea, Pursh, Fl. I., 115. 



On the Saskatchewan between Carlton and Kdmonton. (Drummond.) 

 On small hillocks at ]\Ianitoba House, Lake Manitoba, on clay banks 

 of the Assiniboine above the mouth of the Souris ; also in great ]>ro- 

 fusion in the valley of the South Saskatchewan, fi-om the Klbow to the 

 moulh of Swift Current Creek and up its valley ; in the valley of the 

 Red Deer River at the Hand Hills, forming dense thickets. (Macoun.) 

 White Mud River west of Wood Mountain, 49th parallel. (Dawson.) 



XC. LORANTHACE.E. Mistletoe Family. 



530. ARCEUTHOBIUM, Bieb. 



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(1926.) A. Americanum, Nutt. American Mistletoe. 



A. Oxi/cedri, Bieb. Macoun's Cat, No. 1561. 

 A. Oxycedri, Bieb. Hook. Fl. I., 278, in part. 



Parasitic on Pinus Banhsiana, about 100 miles north of Fort Carlton, 

 on the trail to Green Lake. (Macoun.) On Pinus contorta (Murrayand) 

 in the Rocky Mountains, and thence eastward to Lat. h^°. (Drummond 

 & Douglas.) Parasitic on Pinus Murrayana, Elk River, Kootanie valley, 

 Rocky Mountains ; also between Similkameen and Nicola, and on the 

 same species of tree between the Blackwater River aud Quesnele, B.C. 

 On Pinus contorta at Victoria, Yancouver Island. Often very abundant 

 during certain seasons and in others scarcely seen. (Dawson.) 



(1927.) A. robustum, Engelm. 



A. Oxycedri, Bieb. Hook. Fl. I., 278, in part. 

 On Pinus ponderosa, Kootanie valley, near Columbia Lakes, 1883. 

 (Dauson.) On Pijius ponderosa, west side of the Rocky Mountains. 

 (Douglas.) Sir William Hookej-, in his Flora Boreali Americana, figures 

 both species, but the first as the male plant and the second as the 

 fertile one. Douglas believed his specimens represented two species, 

 but Sir William thought differently. 



