CATALOGUE OF CANADIAN PLANTS. 341 



783. VINCA, Linn. (PERIWINKLE.) 



(3155.) Y. MINOR, Linn. ; Hooker, Student's Flora, 268. 

 Escaped from gardens to roadsides at Kingston, Ont. (T. Walker.*} 



391. ASCLEPIAS. 



(1466.) A. speciosa, Torr.; Macoun, Cat., II., 319. 



Very common in the valley of the Thompson Eiver, B.C., from 

 Shuswap Lake to Lytton, on gravel benches and amongst sand, 1889. 

 (Macoun.) 



394. CENTIANA. 



(1488.) C. glauca, Pall. ; Macoun, Cat., II., 323. 



Quite common on the summit of the Gold Bange, north of Griffin 

 Lake, B.C., altitude 7000 feet, 1889. (Macoun.') 



(1492.) C. sceptrum, Griseb.; Macoun, Cat., II., 323. 



In Westwood's swamp at the base of Mount Benson and in small 

 swamps at Departure Bay, Nanaimo, and at Sproat Lake, Alberni, 

 Vancouver Island ; also on Lulu Island at the mouth of the Fraser 

 Eiver, B.C., 1889 . ( Macoun.} 



(1499.) C. linoaris, Frcel., var. latifolia, Gray, Proced. Amer. 

 Acad., XIV., 309. 



This variety differs from the var. lanceolata, Part II., 325, in having 

 broad leaves, less tapering at the base and being more like a form of 

 G. alba than G. linearis. Ten or twelve miles north of St. Stephen, 

 Charlotte Co., N.B. ( Vroom.*) Kaministiquia Eiver at Fort William, 

 west of Lake Superior, 1889. (Dr. Britton.} The references to G. alba 

 in Part II., 324, all, or nearly all, belong here. In Gray's Man., ed. 

 VI., 351, the flowers are said to be blue. None of our specimens are 

 that color, and the type of the variety was not blue. 



Var. lanceolata, Gray; Macoun, Cat., II., 325. 



Along Eupert Eiver, between ' Lake Mistassini and James Bay, 

 N.E.T., 1885. (J. M. Macoun.} 



