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■Ont. ; north shore of Lake Superior ; Victoria Missions, Saskatchewan Eiver ; 

 Fort Assinaboine, Athabasca River; Little Slave Lake; Dun vegan, Peace 

 River ; Fort St. James, British Columbia ; Cariboo Mountains ; Vancouver's 

 Island (Macoun). From Maine to Wisconsin, thence northward through 

 Canada to the Arctic Sea, and westward to the Pacific coast ; but in no locality 

 seems to be very common. Labrador coast (Butler). 



S. uliginosa, Murr. Swamp Ciiickweed. 



Indigenous. Swamps and springs. Moosepath, New Brunswick (Mathews). 

 Kent County, New Brunswick (Dr. Fowler). Pi,ocky Mountains (Hooker). 

 Unalaska (Chamisso). 



S. crassifolia, Ehrh. 



Indigenous. Marshy flats. Labrador, south coast (Butler). 



S. gracilis, Richardson. 



Indigenous. Perennial, growing in tufts. Stems glabrous, weak and 

 branching, about eight inches high. Leaves lanceolate, spreading, succulent, 

 upper ones slightly ciliate-margined. Peduncle solitary, axillary or terminal, 

 one-flowered. Pedicel generally over an inch long, spreading. Petals two- 

 parted, slightly longer than the scarious-margined, glabrous, acute sepals. In 

 general appearance this species resembles wide-leaved varieties of S. borealis, 

 but its mode of inflorescence is quite different in detail. Hudson's Bay, Cum- 

 berland House (Richardson). Pie Island, Thunder Bay, growing in tufts close 

 to the water. July 15th, 1869. 



S. borealis, Bigelow. Northern Starwort. 



Indigenous. Cool bogs and swamps. New Hampshire and New York to 

 Arctic America, thence west arid south through Oregon and California to the 

 Pacific coast (S. Watson, in King's Report). Kent County, New Brunsv/ick 

 (Dr. Fowler). Anticosti and River Saguenay (Brunet). Bevin's Lake, Mont- 

 calm, River Rouge (D'Urban). Mt. Johnson, Quebec (Dr. Maclagan). Lake 

 BurweU, County Lambton, Ont. (Gibson). Saskatchewan plains (Boiirgeau). 

 St. Joseph's Island, Lake Huron (Dr. Bell). Arctic America (Hooker). Cold 

 Swamps, Hastings County ; Thunder Bay, Lake Superior ; marshes at the 

 mouth of the Kaministiquia ; Little Slave Lake ; Dunvegan, Peace River ; 

 Cariboo Mountains, and a form from Vancouver's Island (J. Macoun). June. 



S. humifusa, Rottbcell. 



Indigenous. Greenland to the Arctic Sea, and west to Sitka (Torr. & Gray). 

 York County, New Brunswick (Dr. Fowler). Kamouraska (Dr. Maclagan). 

 (Ireenland, Arctic Sea, and Sitka (Bougard). 



Cerastium, L. Mouse- ear Chickweed. 



Vj. vulgatum,' L. Mouse-ear Chickweed. 



Introduced. Waste places from Florida to Eastern Canada. Vicinity of 

 Quebec (Brunet). Common among grass at Hamilton's Farm, River Rouge 

 (D'Urban). Rivifere du Loup (Dr. Thomas). In gardens at Kingston and at 

 Fort WiUiam, Thunder Bay, Lake Superior. Lately reported from vicinity of 

 Hamilton by J. M. Buchan, Esq. 



G. viscosum, L. Larger Mouse-ear Chickweed. 



This species is certainly indigenous in Ontario, being found in many cases, 

 at great distances from cultivated grounds. Gray seems to think it is indi- 



