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widely diffused. Bedford, near Halifax, N.S. (Sommers, Cat.) Low 

 meadows, North Sydney, Cape Breton. (Burgess.) 'Truro, and Yar- 

 mouth, N.S. (Macoun.) Magdalen Islands, Gulf of St. Lawrence. 

 (J. Richardson.) Eichibucto, Kouchibouguac, Woodstock and Salmon 

 Eiver, N.B. (Fowler, Cat.) Wet meadows, Gasp6 Basin, Q. Macoun.) 

 Vicinity of Ottawa. (Fletcher, FL Ott.) Border of Black Creek, 

 Grimsthorpe, Hastings Co.; abundant at Elliott's Falls, Gull Eiver, 

 Victoria Co., Ont. ; White Eiver, north of Lake Superior ; in wet 

 meadows, Fort William, Thunder Bay. (Macoun.) ' Lake Mistassini, 

 N.E.T., and Fort George, James Bay. (J. M. Macoun.) Moose Fac- 

 tory, James Bay. (Cottar & Dr. Hayden.) Shore of Little Slave Lake 

 and along the Saskatchewan at Fort Carleton, and along Bow Eiver, 

 above Calgary ; in a boggy spot on the " Tote Eoad," one mile west of 

 the Selkirk summit, B.C., 1885. (Macoun.) Saskatchewan Eiver to 

 Bear Lake and English Eiver. (Hooker, FL) Southern Greenland. 

 (Hook., Arct. PL) 



(2360.) J. Balticus, Var. ft. littoralis, Engelm., Mon. June. 442. 



/. Balticus, Dethard. ; Hook., Fl. II., 180. 

 /. glaucus, Rich., App. page 11. 



Sandy shores of lakes and by the sea; not rare. Pictou, N.S. 

 (McKay.) Along the coast at Yarmouth and Truro, N.S. (Macoun.) 

 Common on the coast of Kent Co., N.B. (Fowler, Cat.) Along the 

 coast of Anticosti, at Salt Lake and Jupiter Eiver ; Gasp Basin and 

 along the coast to Matane, Q. (Macoun.) Mingan Islands, Eiver St. 

 Lawrence. (St. Cyr.) Along the St. Lawrence Eiver at Prescott, 

 Ont. ; rare. (Billings.} Abundant at West Lake, Prince Edward Co. 

 and around Presqu'ile Point, Lake Ontario, and five miles north of 

 Trenton, Northumberland Co., Ont. ; Point aux Pins, Sault Ste. Mavie, 

 and along the north-east coast of Lake Superior ; Poplar Eiver, Lake 

 Nipigon and westward. (Macoun.) Sandy shore of Toronto Island, 

 and at Southampton, Lake Huron. (Burgess.) Fort George, James 

 Bay. (J. M. Macoun.) North end of Lake Winnipeg, and Knee 

 Lake, Keewatin. (22. Bell.) The panicle of the sea coast form is 

 much more compact than that from the Great Lakes. 



Var. y. montanus, Engelm., Mon. June., 442. 



/. Balticus, Hook., Fl. II., 189, in part. 



This form is abundant throughout the prairie region, extending 

 from the eastern border at Eed Eiver across the prairies and through 

 the Eocky Mountains to Donald on the Columbia. {Macoun.) Sas- 

 katchewan Eiver near the mountains, and at Little Slave Lake. 

 (Hooker, FL) 



