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springs in low wet places, KB. (Fowler's Cat.} Common throughout 

 Quebec and Ontario. (Macoun.) Saskatchewan. (Richardson.') 



(736.) C. alternifolium, Linn. 



In the woody, and principally in the barren country of British 

 America. (Richardson.*) On the Arctic islands. (Parry.) On the 

 Eocky Mountains. (Drummond.) Vicinity of Quesnel, and up the 

 Telegraph Trail to Fort St. James, Stuart Lake, B.C. (Macoun.) 

 Ilgacho Brook, northern B.C. (Dawson.) Kotxebue Sound to Cape 

 Lisburne. (Rothr. Alask.) Greenland. (Hook. Arct. PI.) 



184. PARNASSIA, Tourn. (GRASS OF PARNASSUS.) 



(737.) P. palustris, Linn. 



Throughout Canada, as far north as the Arctic Circle, and in swamps 

 in the Eocky Mountains, Lat. 52-56 ; Labrador and Newfoundland ; 

 and Cape Newnham, on the west coast, Lat. 59. (Hooker) Metapedia 

 Eiver, Q., near its mouth. (Macoun.) Island of Anticosti. (Brunei.) 

 On damp soil, Little Metis, Q. (Harrington.) Under the bank at Fort 

 Francis, Eainy Eiver, and westward to the Pacific. (Macoun.) Pine 

 Eiver Pass, in the Eocky Mountains, and frequent in British Columbia. 

 (Dawson.) From Oxford House to York Factory, and on the Churchill 

 Eiver. (R. Bell.) 



(738.) P. parviflora, DC. 



Labrador. (Butler.) Eo man tic Islet, north-east, Magdalen Islands, 

 Gulf of St. Lawrence. (McKay.) Grand Me"tis, Q. (Burgess.) Borders 

 of the Eivers Ste. Anne, Jacques Cartier, Q. (Brunet.) Very abundant 

 along the Gaspe coast from Cape Eosier to Ste. Anne des Monts ; also 

 up the Ste. Anne Eiver, Q. ; north shore of Lake Superior, near Pic 

 Eiver. Eed Bay, Lake Huron ; Fort Edmonton on the Saskatchewan, 

 and on rocks, Peace Eiver, Canyon, Lat. 56. (Macoun.) Sandy banks, 

 formed by the floods in the rivers among Eocky Mountains, Lat. 52-56. 

 (Drummond.) 



(739.) P. Carol iniana, Michx. 



P. palustris, Pursh, 208. 



Crevices of rocks and on floating logs in rivers. Flat lands, Eesti- 

 gouche, KB. (Chalmers.) Andover, Victoria, KB. (J. E. Wetmore.) 

 Vicinity of Quebec; Isle of Orleans. (Brunet) Crevices of rocks, 

 Niagara Falls ; Presqu' He Point, Lake Ontario; and Pott's Mill Dam, 

 Brighton, Ont. ; Eed Bay, Lake Huron. (Macoun.) Banks of the 



