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form is meant. Neighborhood of Halifax, N.S. (Lawson.} Pictou, 

 N.S. (McKay.} Parrsboro', Cumberland Co., N.S. (How.} Bather 

 common near the coast, N.B. (Fowler's Cat.} Abundant throughout 

 Ontario, and extending westward to the Kaministiquia River, Thunder 

 Bay. (Macoun.} 



Yar. repens, Gray. 



Catystegia sepium, var. pubescens, Gray, Man. Ed. V., 376. 

 In this variety the leaves are more or less pubescent and the bracts 

 and leaves fringed with soft hairs. Lake of the Woods, Turtle Moun- 

 tain, and Trader's Eoad near Wood Mountain, 49th parallel, all in flower. 

 On the third prairie steppe it only appears along the borders of streams 

 in sheltered positions. (Dawson.~) Souris and Qu'Appelle rivers. 

 (J. M. Macoun, 0. P. E. Coll.} Frequent in thickets as far west as' the 

 Hand Hills. Long. 112. (Macoun.} Canada to the Rocky Mountains. 

 (Richardson & Drummond.} 



Var. maritima. (?) 



Specimens growing in a brackish marsh and occasionally covered by 

 spring tides were obtained, near Sydney Mines, Cape Breton, in 1883. 

 All parts of the plant were very pubescent and quite different from 

 the pubescent form from the prairie region. On the Magdalen Islands 

 in the Gulf of St. Lawrence. (McKay.} Eel River, N.B. (Fletcher.} 



(1599.) C. arvensis, Linn. Bindweed. 



Naturalized. On ballast heaps at Pictou, N.S. (Macoun & McKay.} 

 In cultivated fields rather rare, N.B. (Fowler's Cat.) Beauharnois 

 Co., Q., and at Strathroy, Ont. (McGill Coll. Herb.} Near Cumming's 

 Bridge, and in the Public Park, Ottawa. (Fletcher Fl. Ott.} Bank of 

 the St. Lawrence, a mile west of Prescott, Ont. (Billings.} Introduced 

 into gardens at Belleville, with strawberry plants and spreading; 

 roadsides near Essex Centre, Ont. (Macoun.} Vicinity of London, 

 Ont. (Burgess.} Vicinity of Hamilton, Ont. (Buchan.} On the 

 Insane AsjHum Farm, Toronto. (Fowler.} 



427. CUSCUTA, Linn. (DODDER.) 



(1600.) C. arvensis, Beyrich. 



On dry gravelly ridges, Manitoba and westward. Climbing over 

 low plants of Lygodesmia juncea at Pine Creek, Manitoba, and on 

 Artemisia frigida on the Cypress Hills. Specimens identified by Dr. 

 Englemann. 



