1898] Contributions to Canadian Botany. 169 



Survey by specimens collected by Prof. Macoun at Barclay 

 Sound, Vaucouver Island, 1887, and Burrard Jnlet, near Van- 

 couver, B.C., 1889. 



BlDENS CHRYSANTHEMOIDES, Michx. 



Beautiful specimens of this species were collected in Lin- 

 coln Co., Ont., Sept. 1 6th, 1897, by Mr. VV. C. McCalla. 



Centaurea solstitialis, L. 



Collected on a farm about 8 miles S.E. of London, Ont. 

 Communicated by Mr. J. Dearness. 



Crepis Tectorum, L. 



On lawns, introduced at W'ingham, Ont., 1897. {J. A^ 

 Morton.) Common in Woodland Cemetery, London, 1897 

 {J. Dearness.) Not before recorded in Canada. 



HiERACIUM Pv.tALTUM, Vill. 



Don Valley, near Toronto, Ont., 1894. Covering about half 

 an acre of the C. P. Ry. embankment. {W. Scott.) New to 

 Canada. 



Lobelia spicat.a, Lam. 



Well established at Holland Cove.entrance to Charlottetown, 

 Harbour, Prince Edward Island. (L. W. Watson.) 



Arctostaphylos media, Greene, Pittonia, vol. 11, p. 17 r. 



Near the Nanaimo River, Vancouver Island {J.R.Anderson.) 

 Not before collected in Canada, and known only from Washing- 

 ton and the above locality. Mr. Piper who collected the speci- 

 ^taens from which the species was described wrote of the plant 

 seen by him : " It is found sparingly on dry gravelly ground 

 Mason County, where both A tomentosa and A. uva-ursi are 

 ^very abundant, and always in a position to indicate a hybrid 

 origin. It is found most commonly in beds of A. uva-ursi with 

 )lenty o( A. tomentosa near by, and is easily distinguished from 

 [. uva-U'si by its larger size, merely procumbent (not prostrate) 

 ibit, and paler foliage." (Pittonia, vol. 11. p. 171.) Mr. Ander- 

 m sends me the following note on the specimens collected by 

 im : " Regarding the Arctostaphylos, Mr. Piper's description of 



