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Delta; 'I"iiriMiti> ; at tlic Siilpluir Spn ^, Hamilton; Prescott ; Chippewa; Belleville; 

 Ramsay; London ; iu>itli shore oi Lake Superior; at Red Roek ; Nipij^on ; Thunder 

 Bay; and up the Kaininistitjuia. Oncbcr: — Rivere Roug'e; Montreal; Gaspe; Stanfold ; 

 Grenville; Islaiul ot Antieosli in the Ciulf of St. Lawrence. Xorfh-W'vst Tcrrilorwi'^iw- 

 Hill I'ortaj^e, above Oxford House; Saskatehew.in ; l^oeky Mountains; lower slope of 

 South Kootanie Pass, lat, 49 . Ih-itisli Columbia : — Fort MeLeod, lat. 55 ; and lower 

 valley oi Fraser River. Nova Scotia : — Blomidon ; Scott's Bay ; Five Islands ; Pietou ; 

 Port Multjrave, Strait oi Canso ; Truemanville, Cumberland County. Ne-ii< Bn/nswic/i:: — 

 Rather common in (his Province. A^eivfouiidhtnd. 



2. B. TKRN'ATIM, Swartz. Leatlicry Mi»)n",vort. — Root of elonj^ated, thick, tieshv, 

 tuber-like fibres. Stipe 3 or 4 to 10 or 12 inches in heit^'ht. Lamina thick and leathery in 

 textiu'e, lontf-stalked, arisintf from near the base of the stipe or main axis, triang'ular or 

 broadly deltoid in outline, ternately divided, the divisions stalked and twice or thrice 

 pinnate, the ultimate lobes beini;- more or less triangular, lanceolate or ovate, nearly 

 entire or incised. The sporangia-bearinjtf spike is lon^:-stalked,and twice or thrice pinnate. 



In old pastures, dry _t;iassy places by river sides, &c., not decidedly rare, but not 

 common. 



lYova Sc')/ia : — Cape PiMcupine ; Boylston, Guysborough County ; Rawdon and 

 Windsor, Hants County ; Sackville ; Bedford ; New Germany and Oaklands Lake, 

 Mahone Bay. Oucbcri—Thrcc Rivers; S. Joachim; L'Orij^^inal ; Ouebec ; Richmond 

 and Drummond Counties, AVtc Bninsii'ick: — Rapidede PY'inine, below Grand Falls; not 

 rare in this Prt>vince. C^///(rw> : — Gananoque Lake ; Castleton and Belleville ; Prescott 

 Junction westwanl ; ICns^lish's Woods, London ; Hamilton ; Learning-ton ; Blenheim ; 

 near Ottaw.i ; north siioie o\ Lake Superior ; Rice Lake Plains. Bri/is/i Coltinihia : — 

 New Westminster. Mituitob:i : — ^F"requent on the western prairies, extending- to Rocky 

 Mountains. 



3. LiNARiA, Swartz. Coimiion Mui>ini';>rt, of Europe. — Frond from 4 to 8 inches 

 in height, thicli and leathery ; infertile lamina sessile, arising from the middle part of the 

 stipe or main axis, oblongf or somewhat ovate, only once pinnate (the pinna; not 

 pinnatifid); |iinnfe cuneate at base, rounded lunate, the outer or convex margin slightly 

 notched or incised not lobed. 



Rather rare. Ouebec : North side oi Orleans Island ; River du Loup ; near Cape 

 Rosier, Gaspe. Ontario : — North shore of Lake Superior, and the Pic and Nipigon Bay ; 

 Nipig^on River and Lake Nipigon. Manitoba : — On prairie close to sand hills at Flat 

 Creek. A'ort/i-West Territory : — Carlelon House on the Saskatchewan, and Bow River 

 Pass, Rocky Mountains ; Kchmamish River to Knee Lake, and Churchill River, near 

 Hiidso:i Bay. British Columbia : — Ne ir Fort McLeod, lat. 55°. 



4. B. MATRICAIil.TiFOLIUM, Braun. CJiamomile-h'aved Griipc-Fcrn. — P'rond rather 

 fleshy, from a few inches to, rarely, a foot in heig-ht. Infertile Ijimina stalked, arisingf far 



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