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Yar. gigantea, Gray. 



S. serotina, Torr. & Gray Fl. II., 224. Macoun's Cat., No. 911. 



Borders of thickets and low grounds ; common throughout Canada' 

 Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and westward to the 

 Pacific ; also northward on the Peace Eiver to Lat. 59. (Macoun.) 



(1002.) S. lepida, DC. 



Along the north-west coast to Alaska. (Gray.") Queen Charlotte 

 Islands. 1878. (Dawson.) Nootka. (Hcenke.) 



(1003.) S. elongata, Nutt. 



S. data, Hook. Fl. II. , 5. 



S. Canadensis, Hook. Fl. II., 1. As to Arctic specimens. 



Arctic America, from Slave Lake to Fort Franklin, on the Mackenzie 

 River. (Richardson.} Forms approaching S. Canadensis have been 

 collected by myself and Dr. Dawson along the eastern base of the 

 Rocky Mountains and northward to Peace River. (Macoun.) Chilcoten 

 River, west of the Fraser, B.C. (Dawson.) Straits of De Fuca. 

 (Scouler.) Abundant on Vancouver Island and up the Fraser and 

 Thompson rivers, B. C. (Fletcher.) Yictoria, Vancouver Island. 

 (Meehan.) 



(1004.) S. Canadensis, Linn. Common G-olden-rod. 



Our commonest Golden-rod extending under one form or another 

 from the Atlantic to the Pacific. North to Fort Franklin on the Mac- 

 kenzie. (Richardson.) 



Yar. procera, Torr. & Gray. 



S. procera, Ait. Hook. Fl. II., 2. 



Apparently not rare in the Atlantic provinces. Jupiter River, 

 Anticosti. (Macoun.) New Brunswick. (Fowler.) Canada. (Pursh.) 

 Vicinity of Ottawa. (Fletcher.) Wooded country between Lat. 54- 

 64. (Richardson.) 



Yar. sea bra, Tori-. & Gray. 



This form, or one taken for it, is common on the open prairie in the 

 North-west Territory. South-east of Hurricane Hills, and Souris 

 Plain. (J. M. Macoun C. P. R. Coll.} Common south of Battleford 

 and around the Hand Hills, and west to Morley. (Macoun.) 



(1005.) S. nemoralis, Ait. 



Dry or sterile fields and sandy or gravelly thickets or prairies, com- 

 mon. From Anticosti westward to the Rocky Mountains. The prairie 



