12 Canadian Record of Science. 



Gi^NOTHERA MICRANTHA, Hom. 



On ballast heaps at Nanaimo, Vancouver Island, 1893. 

 {John Macoun, Herb. No. 249.) Introduced from the 

 south. New to Canada. 



Phacelia hispida, Gray. 



On ballast heaps, Nanaimo, Vancouver Island, 18^3. 

 (Joh7i Macoun, Herb. No. 654.) Introduced from the 

 south. New to Canada. 



Krynitzia ambigua, Gray. 



On ballast heaps at Nanahno, Vancouver Island, 1893. 

 {John Macoun, Herb. No. 672.) Introduced from Cali- 

 fornia. New to Canada. 



Amsinckia barbata, Greene, Erythmea, Vol. II., No. 12, 

 p. 192. 



Stout and coarse, erect or decumbent, the branches 

 loosely floriferous throughout, all excepting the uppermost 

 pedicels subtended each by a broad ovate-lanceolate 

 amplexicaul f oliaceous bract ; sepals 4 . or 5 lines long, 

 nearly linear, without rufous or fulvous pubescence, but 

 densely white-hirsute along the margins, sparsely hispid 

 with whitish bristles an the back ; corolla small ; nutlets 

 ovate-acuminate, closely muricate-tuberculate, without 

 transverse rugosities, but with an elevated and toothed 

 dorsal ridge. 



Collected at Cameron Lake, Vancouver Island, 15th 

 July, 1887, by John Macoun. Type specimen in the 

 herbarium of the British Museum. Distributed by Prof. 

 Macoun as Amsinckia lycopsoides. 



Zannichelia palustris, Linn. 



In the Spullamacheen Eiver at Enderby, B.C., 1889. 

 {Jos. M. Macottn.) Not before recorded west of the Sas- 

 katchewan. 



