CATALOGUE OF CANADIAN PLANTS. o-il 



783. VINCA, Linn. (PERIWINKLE.) 



(3155.) V. MINOR, Linn. ; Hooker, Student's Flora, 268. 

 Escaped from gardens to roadsides at Kingston, Out. QT. Walker.) 



39r. ASCLEPIAS. 



(1466.) A. speciosa, Torr. ; Macoun, Cut., II., 31!t. 



Very common in the valley of the Thompson River, B.C., from 

 Shu!?wap Lake to Lj^tton, on gravel benches and amongst sand, 1889. 

 (Macoun.) 



394. CENTIANA. 



(1488.) C. glauca, Pall. ; Macoun, Cat., II., 323. 



Quite lommon on the summit of the Gold Range, north of Griffin 

 Lake, B.C., altitude 7000 feet, 18S1I. (Alacoun.) 



(1492.) C. sceptrum, Griseb.; Macoun, Cat, IL, 323. 



In West\vood'.s swamp at the base of Mount Benson and in small 

 swamps at Departuio Bay, Nanaimo, and at Sproat Lake, Alberni, 

 Vancouver Island ; also on Lulu Island at the mouth of the Fraser 

 River, B.C., 1889. {Macoun.) 



(1499.) C. linearis, Froel., var. latifolla, Gray, Proced. Amer. 

 Acad., XIV., 309. 



This variety differs from the var. lanceolata. Part II., 325, in having 

 broad leaves, loss tapering at the base and being more like a form of 

 G. alba than G. linearis, Ten or twelve miles north of St. Stephen, 

 Charlotte Co., N.B. ( Vroom.) Kaministiquia River at Fort William, 

 west of Lake Superior, 1889. (Dr. Britton.) The references to G. alba 

 in Part II., 324, all, or nearly all, belong here. In Gray's Man., ed. 

 VI,, 351, the flowers are said to be blue. None of our specimens arc 

 that color, and the type of the variety was not blue. 



Var. lanceolata, Gray; Macoun, Cat., II., 325. 

 Along Rupert River, between Lake Mistassini and James Bay, 

 N.E.T., 1885. (J. M. Macoun.) 



