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gardens. Growing in tufts by mountain streams, and on the Pacific 

 coast. Washington territory', and northward to Sitka. (Bailey.) 

 Abundant by streams in the valleys of the Selkirk Mountains, B.C. ; 

 in stream beds on Mount Mark, Vancouver Island, alt. 2,500 feet. 

 (Maeoun.) Pitt Eiver, B.C. (Hill.') Shores of Burrard Inlet, Van- 

 couver city, B. C. (I'rof. Fowler.) North West coast to Sitka. 

 (Booker, Fi.) Ounalashka, and Sitka. (Rothr. Alask.) Port Etches, 

 Sitka. (Barclay.) 



(2578.) C. atrata, Linn., Sp. PI. 976, (1753); Hook., Fl. II., 216. 



On mountains and by rivers and lakes in the northern forest region. 

 Madawaska and Tobique rivers, N.B. (Fowler, Cat.) Nicatau Lake, 

 N.B. (May.) Near Jupiter Eiver, and at Becscie Eiver, Anticosti ; 

 in fields, Gasp^ Basin ; and along the Ste. Anne des Monts Eiver,^ 

 Gasp^, Q. (Macoun.) Table-top Mountain, and Madeline Eiver, GasptS, 

 Q. (Porter.) Temiscouata, Q. (Burgess.) Lake Mistassini, N.E.T. 

 (J. M. Macoun.) Hayes Eiver, Keewatin. (R. BelU) Shore of Current 

 Eiver, at Port Arthur, Lake Superior; high hills near Lesser Slave 

 Lake, and at Peace Eiver Carion, lat. 5(J ; quite common in grassy 

 places, from Morley westward through the Eocky Mountains to Eoger's 

 Pass, Selkirk Mountains, B.C. (Macoun.) Along Belly Eiver, lat. 49°. 

 (Burgess.) Damp wood. Camp Akamina, Eocky Mountains, lat. 49°. 

 (Dawson.) Goose Creek Mountain, five miles from Keithly, B.C.,. 

 alt. 5,800 feet. (Bowman.) Eocky Mountains to arctic America. 

 (Hooker, Fl.) Kotzebue Sound. (Rothr. Alask.) Fj-ances Eiver, near 

 lat. 61°, north of British Columbia. (Dawson.) 



Var. nigra, Boott, 111. 114. 



a nigra, All. Fl. Fed. II., 267; Hook., Fl. II., 224, (1840.) 



Apparently rare or overlooked in Canada. On the higher mountain 

 slopes and summits of the Eocky Mountains westward from Castle 

 Mountain to the Selkirk Mountains, at Eoger's Pa.s.s, B.C. ; Stewart's 

 Lake Mourtain, B.C., lat. 55". (Macoun.) Labrador. (Schweinitz, 

 Torrey vide Hooker, Fl.) 



Var. ovata, Boott, 111. 114. 



a ovata, Eudge, Linn. Trans. VII., %, (1804) ; Hook., Fl. II., 21ff, 

 Newfoundland, and Rocky Mountains. (Hooker, Fl.) 



(2579.) C. heteroneura, W. Boott, Bot. Calif. II., 239. (1880.) 



Summit of the South Kootanie Pass, Rocky Mountain.?, 1881. (Daw- 

 son.) Only a few specimens were obtained, but these accord well with 



