324 GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OP CANADA. 



206. MENTZELIA. 



(3115.) M. dispersa, Watson, Bot. CaUfornia, I., 230. 



Aljundant at Lj'ttoii and Spence's Bridge, B.C., 1889, especially along 

 the railway. {Macoun.) 



212. HYDROCOTYLE. 



(3116.) H. DMBELLATA, Linn., Spec, 234. 



On ballast heaps on the coal whai-f at Nanaimn, Vancouver Island. 

 Witiioiit doiibl intioduceil. (Manoun.) 



773. CRANTZiA, Nutt., Cen. I., 178. 



(3117.) C. lineata, Nutt. ; C. & R. Rev. of N. Amer., Umbell, 92. 



Abundant in saline marshy 8])ots from Xanainio along llie sea shore 

 to the mouth of isanaimo River; also at the head of James Bay, Vic- 

 toria, Vancouver Island, 1887. (Macoun.) 



213. SANICULA. 



(83G.) S. Marylandica, Linn.; C.&R. Rev. ofN. Amer., Umbell, 102. 



Coulter and Rose give the range of this species only westward to 

 the Rock}- Mountains. In Canada it ranges quite across the continent, 

 and is found, though rarely, on Vancouver Island. (Macoun.) 



Var. Canadensis, Torr. Fl. U.S., 302. 



S. Canadensis, Linn. ; Macoun, Cat, I., 179. 



There is now no doubt that this is only a variety of S. Marylandica, 

 and references under that species in Part I. belong here. 



(3118.) S. Howellii, ('. \ R. Bot. Gazette, XIIL, 81. 



" Stems coarse, a foot or less high, more or less buried in the sand 

 (or earth), often bearing tufts of stout elongated peduncles and leaves ; 

 leaves broad and palmalely three to five lobed (often much modified by 

 by being buried in the sand), the upper inclined to be pinnately lobed, 

 the divisions rather shai-ply cut and toothed, the teeth mucronate- 

 tipped ; umbels unequally few-rayed, with involucre of few leaf-like 



