400 GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA. 



End, Souris River, 49th parallel. (Burgess.} Very common on newly 

 broken, saline soil from Winnipeg throughout the prairie region and 

 across the Rocky Mountains on the line of Canadian Pacific Railway. 

 (Macoun.) From Hudson Bay to Cumberland House and Fort Edmon- 

 ton on the Saskatchewan. (Drummond.) 



(1838.) C. BONUS-HENRICUS, Linn. Good-King-Henry. 



Blitum Bonus-Henricus, C. A. Meyer. Gray, Man. 408, 1868. Macoun's 

 Cat, No. 1486. 



Occasionally introduced. Roadside, South Sydney, Cape Breton. 

 (Macoun.) Waste places at Ottawa. (Fletcher Fl. Ott.) Vicinity of 

 Hamilton. (Buchan.) 



(1839.) C. capitatum, Benth. & Book. Strawberry Blite. 



Blitum capitatum, Linn Gray, Man. 408, 1868. Macoun's Cat, No. 1484. 



Common on sandy shores, in newly cleared lands and in river 

 bottoms from the Atlantic to the Pacific and northward to Great Slave 

 Lake and Alaska. Very common in the Rocky Mountains on the 

 railway embankments. 



(1840.) C. rubrum, Linn. 



Blitum rubrum, Eeich. Watson, Rev. Chenop., 99. 



B. maritimum, Nutt. Bourgeau, Palliser's Rep. 260. Macoun's Cat, 



No. 1485. 

 B. polymorphum, C. A. Meyer. Macoun's Cat., No. 1487. 



Newfoundland. (Morrison.} Rather infrequent on saline soil in the 

 prairie region, but becoming more abundant as the land is broken up. 

 Common at Broadview, Assiniboia. (Macoun.) Alkaline soil, Coteau 

 de Missouri, 49th parallel. (Burgess.") About the Saskatchewan. 

 (Drummond.) At Palliser in the Kicking Horse Valley, Rocky 

 Mountains. (Macoun.) Straits of De Fuca, B.C. (Scouler.) 



Var. hum He, Moquin. 



Chenopodium humile, Hook. Fl. II., 127. Macoun's Cat, No. 1480. 

 Blitum rubrum, Bourgeau, Palliser's Rep., 260. 



On dried mud, borders of saline marshes and ponds throughout the 

 prairie region, but not common. (Macoun.) Saline marshes along the 

 Saskatchewan. (Drummond.) 



