78 Canadian Record of Science. 



A. nemorosa, Linn., var. (?), Macoun, Cat. Can, Plants, 

 Vol. I, p. 478. 



A. Oregana, Macoun, Cat. Can. Plants, Vol. II, p. 295. 



Slender, erect, nearly glabrous throughout, 10-40 cm. 

 high, from a short horizontal root-stock. Radical leaves 

 not seen : leaves of the involucre on very slender petioles 

 1.5-3 cm. long., 3-divided, the divisions sessile, ovate, or the 

 terminal ones sometimes nearly orbicular, dentate-crenate, 

 or sometimes incised, acute, or obtuse, very thin, moi-e or 

 less ciliate along the margins ; flowers solitary white, about 

 1 cm. broad, its peduncle slightly exceeding the petiols of 

 the involucral leaves, sej)als about 5, oval-oblong, obtuse ; 

 young achenia quite densely strigose-pubescent 



Dean or Salmon Eiver, B.C., (^Daiosoii). Near Victoria, 

 V.I., (^Fletcher')., Groldstream, V.I., and Burnside Road near 

 Victoria. V.I., {Macoun. Herb. Nos. 912, 913).i 



Anemone quinquepolia, L. 



A, nemorosa, Amer. Authors. 



" Readily distinguishable from the European A. nemorosa 

 by its slender habit, slender petioles, less lobed divisions of 

 the involucral leaves, paler green of the foliage and smaller 

 flowers." (Dr. N. L. Britton.) 



The western limit of this species as shown by our herbar- 

 ium specimens is Wingham, Ont. 



Note. See Revision of the genus Anemone by Dr. N. L. 

 Britton in Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 

 Vol. VI. pp. 215-238. 



Aquilegia OHETSANTHA, Gray. 



On the portage between Hope and the head of the Simil- 

 kemeen River, B.C., {A. J. Hill.'), New to Canada. 



Aeabis Macounii, Watson, Proc. Am, Acad, of Arts and 

 Sciences, p. 124. 

 Biennial, branched from the base, slender, pubescent 



' Whenever herbarium numbers are given, they are the numbers under which 

 gpecimens have been distributed from the herbarium of the Geological Survey of 

 Canada. 



