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759. OSMUNDA, Linn., Cen. PI., No. 1 172. 



(FLOWERING-FERN.) 



(3030.) O. regalis, Linn., Sp. PL, 1521. . Swavtz, Syn. Fil., 160. 

 Michx., Fl. Eor.-Ara., ii., 273. Hook. & Baker, Syn. Fil, 427. 

 Piovancher, Fl. Can., 721. Watt, Can. Nat., iv., 364. Macoun 

 & Burgess, Trans. Eoy. Soc Can., ii., sect, iv., 223. 



O. speclabilif:, Willd., Sp. PI., v., 98. Pursh, Fl. Am. Sept., ii., 658. 



Hook., Fl. Bor.-Am., ii., 265. 

 0. regalis, var. spectaldlis, Milde, Fil. Eur. et Atlant., 178. Lawson, Can. 



Nat., i., 290 ; Fern. Fl. Can., 247. 



A tall-growing species of very common occurrence in wet places in 

 most parts of the eastern half of our territoiy, though rare toward its 

 western limit, which is the Saskatchewan. Observed north of Lake 

 Superior at Round Lake, on the line of the Canadian Pacitic Eailway, 

 twelve miles east of the Fie River, and at Current River, Thunder Bay, 

 Ont. (Macoun.) Abundant around Lake Mistassini, N. E. Ter. ; on 

 Muskeg Island, Lake Winnipeg. (J. M. Macoun.) Through Canada 

 westward to the Saskatchewan. (Eaton.) 



(3031.) O. Claytoniana, Linn., Sp. PI., 1521. Swartz, Syn. Fil., 

 160. Pursh, Fl. Am. Sept., ii., 657. Hook. & Baker, Syn. Fil., 

 426. Lawson, Can. Nat., i., 291. Watt, Can. Nat., iv., 364. 

 Macoun & Burgess, Trans. Roy. Soc. Can., ii., sect, iv., 224. 



0- inlcrrupla, Michx., Fl. Bor.-Am., ii., 273. Swartz, Syn. Fil., 160. 

 Pursh, Fl. Am. Sept., ii., 657. Hook., Fl. Bor.-Am., ii., 265. 

 Provancher, Fl. Can.. 721. 



A handsome fern found growing in tufts in low grounds, and common 

 throutrhout Canada from Newfoundland and Nova Scotia to Lake 

 Superior, prohably finding its western limit in Manitoba. Not uncom- 

 mon around Lake Nepigon and Thunder Bay, Ont. (Macoun.) Very 

 abundant among boulders all around Lake Mistassini, N. E. Ter. 

 (J. M. Macoun.) Collected by Bourgeau at Sturgeon Lake, some hundred 

 miles north-west of Lake Superior, and, according to Milde, on Lake 

 Winnipeg. 



(3032.) O. cinnamomea, Linn., Sp. PI., 1522. Swartz, Syn. Fil., 

 160. Michx., Fl. Bor.-Am., ii., 273. Pursh, Fl. Am. Sept., ii., 657. 

 Hook., Fl. Bor.-Am., ii., 265. Hook. & Baker, Syn. Fil., 426. 

 Provancher, Fl. Can., 721. Lawson, Can. Nat., i., 290. Macoun 

 & Burgess, Trans. Roy. Soc. Can., ii., sect, iv., 225. 



