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Owing to our imperfect knowledge of this genus, our specimens were 

 in some cases placed under the wrong species, but all have lately been 

 examined by Dr. Britton, and we here repeat the localities of our 

 herbarium specimens for each species of the genus. Salt marshes, St. 

 John, KB. (Matthews.} Annapolis, KS. (Prof. Fowler.} Brackish 

 sands along the coast at Brackley Point, Prince Edward Island ; North 

 Sydney, Cape Breton ; Pictou, KS. ; salt lake, west of Long Lake, and 

 Old Wives' Lakes, Assiniboia ; salt marsh, Kamloops, and shore of 

 Burrard Inlet, B.C. ; on wet sand, Oak Bay and Nanaimo, Vancouver 

 Island. (Macoun.} 



(321.) B. boreatis, Watson; Gray, Man., ed. VI., 90. (1890.) 



Tissa salina, Britt, Bull. Torr. Bot. Club, XVI., 129. 

 Spergularia salina, Macoun, Cat. I., 80. 



Salt marshes, coast of Kent Co., KB. (Prof. Fowler.) Gravelly 

 beach, below high-water mark, St. Croix Eiver, St. Stephen, KB. 

 ( Vroom.) Salt marshes, Brackley Point, and Mount Stewart, Prince 

 Edward Island ; Becscie Eiver, Anticosti, and Eestigouche Eiver, Que. 

 (Macoun.} 



(3084.) B. marotheca, Fisch. & Meyer. 



Tissa macrotheca, Britt., Bull. Torr. Bot. Club, XVI., 129. 



Coast of Vancouver Island, at Beacon Hill and Oak Bay, near Vic- 

 toria. (Fletcher, Macoun, Newcombe.} Crevices of rocks washed by 

 the sea, Barclay Sound, Vancouver Island. (Macoun.} 



(320.) B. rubra, Dumort; Gray, Man., ed. VI., 89. (1890.) 



Tissa rubra, Britt, Bull. Torr. Bot. Club, XVI., 127. 

 tipergularia rubra, Presl ; Macoun, Cat. I., 80 



Bass Eiver, KB. (Prof. Fowler.) Halifax, N S., and North Sydney, 

 Cape Breton ; roadsides near Victoria, Vancouver Island. (Macoun.) 



92. CLAYTONIA. 



(3086.) C. parviflora, Dougl. ; Hook. Fl. I., 225. 



C.pcrfoliata var. parviflora, Torr. ; Macoun, Cat, I., 83. 



Distinguished from C. perfoliata by its spatulate to filiform-linear 

 radical leaves, and its flowers scattered in a loose raceme on slender 

 pedicels. Abundant at Goldstream, Vancouver Island, amongst gravel, 

 May 18th, 1887. (Macoun.) 



