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We have it from Old Wives Creek, Assa., and Medicine Hat, 

 Assa. {John Macoiin.) Maple Creek, Assa. {J. M. Macoun.) 

 and Ste. Anne, west of Edmonton, Alta. ( W. SpreadborougA.) 



Sedum divergens, Wat. 



Mountains at Yellow Head I>ake, Rocky Mountains, Alt. 

 6,000 ft. July 17th. 1898. (W. k>'i reailh'Tougk.) Not before 

 recorded from Canada though some Vancouver Island references 

 to 8. Oreganam may be this species. 



Epilobium luteum, Pursh. 



By springs on the mountain side, west uf Henry House, 

 Athabasca River, Lat 53°, Alberta. Alt. 5,500. Aug. 30th, 1898. 

 (W. Spreddborongh.) Not before collected on east side of Rocky 

 Mountains, and not so far north anywhere in Canada. 



Angelica sylvestris, L. 



Meadows and old fields at Louisburg, Cape Breton Island, 

 N.S. 1898. (John Macoun) Probably introduced by the 

 French in the 17th Century, Not before recorded. 



SCABIOSA SUCCISA, L. 



In an old field at the head of the bay at Louisburg, Cape 

 Breton Island, N.S. 1898. (John ALicoun.) Probably intro- 

 duced by the French in the 17th Century. 



Grindelia macrophylla, Greene, Pittonia, vol. in, p. 297. 



Stout erect herbaceous, 3 feet high, corymbosely branched 

 at summit, wholly glabrous, or with a few scattered short hairs 

 on the pedunculiform branches; leaves thinni.sh, the radical afoot 

 long or more, lanceolate, scarcely petiolate, incisely serrate ; the 

 cauline oblong or spatulate oblong, 2-4 inches long, sessile and 

 clasping by a broad base, cuarsely serrate, or the uppermost 

 reduced and entire ; involucres large, hemispherical, scarceh- 

 glutinous, their narrow bracts with a long slender spreading 

 acumination ; rays many, an inch long or more. 



Described from specimens collected by Dr. Edw. L. Greene 

 from the margin of a tide-water swamp near Vancouver, B.C., in 

 July, 1890. Represented in the herbarium of the Geological 



