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242. CORNUS. 



(3128.) C. Baileyi, Coulter & Evans, Bot. Gaz., XV., 31. 



C siolonifera, Macoun, Cat. I., 190, in part. 



"Erect shrub, with reddish-brown, mostly smooth branches; branch- 

 •lets and inflorescence pubescent to woolly; petioles 6 to 25 mm. long ; 

 leaves from lanceolate to ovate, acute or short-acuminate, acute oi' 

 obtuse at base, apprcssod-pubescent to glabrale above, white beneath, 

 and with woolly hairs variously intermingled with appressed ones (or 

 in some cases all appressed), 2-5 to 12 cm. long, 1-2 to T'S cm. wide; 

 flowers in small; rather com])act cjTnes ; calyx-teeth from small to 

 prominent; fruit white; stone decidedly compressed, flat-topped, 

 rarely oblique, with a very prominently furrowed edge, much broader 

 than high (3 mm. high, 4 to 6 mm. broad)." 



Low grounds at the mouth of Ncpigon Eivei", Lake Superior ; " Eiver 

 That Turns," near the source of the Qu'Appelle Eiver, Assiniboia 

 {Macoun) ; Cypress Hills, Alberta. (<7. M. Macoun.) North Fork of 

 Old Man Eiver, Eocky Mountains. (Dawson.) Probably common 

 between Lake Superior and the Eocky Mountains. {Macoun.) 



245. SAMBUCUS. 



(3129.) S. glauca, Nutt.; Torr. & Gray, F\. IL, 13. 



In the vicinity of Victoria, Vancouver Island, 1885. (Fletcher.) 

 Abundant along the Cowichan Eiver and at Nanaimo, Vancouver 

 I.sland; also at Agassiz, B.C. (Macoun.) 



248. SYPMHORICARPUS. 



(3130.) S. mollis, Nutt. ; Torr. & Gray, Fl. 11., 4. 



Quite common on dry, gravelly hills at Goldstreara and Nanaimo, 

 Vancouver Island, 1887 ; also on gravel at Yale and Agassiz, B.C., 

 1889. (Macoun.) 



258. VALERIANELLA. Tourn. 



The above generic name is substituted for Plectritis, Part II., 205, 

 & IIL, 501. 



(3131.) V. anomala, Gray, Proced. Amer. Acad., XIX., 83. 



On gravelly slopes near Nanaimo, Vancouver, 1887. (Macoun.) 



