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V. tetrasperma, L. 



Introduced. Waste places near the coast. Isle of Orleans (Brunet). Lon- 

 geuil, Quebec (Maclagan). 



V. hirsuta, Kocli. 



Introduced. Waste places. Quebec (Brunet). Common at Hivi^re du 

 Loup (Dr. Thomas). Vicinity of Hamilton (Logie). 



Y. Cracea, L. 



Indigenous. Fields and wastes. Eocky field near Belleville (Macoun). 

 Common near Prescott (Billings). Common at Quebec (Brunet). New Bruns- 

 wick (Dr. Fowler). Montreal Island (Holmes, Maclagan). Common at 

 Kividre du Loup (Dr. Thomas). Fifteen miles up the Kaministiquia, Lake 

 Superior (Macoun). Fort Garry and Fort Carleton, on the Saskatchewan 

 (Macoun). 



Y. Caroliniana, Walt. 



Indigenous. E,iver banks and lake shores, &c. Bay of Quints, Prince 

 Edward County (Macoun). Chippawa, Xavy Island and Maiden (Maclagan). 



Y. Americana, MuU. 



Indigenous. River banks and moist soil. Paris (Logie). Chippawa, Navy 

 Island, Cayuga, and Maiden (Maclagan). North shore of Lake Superior 

 (Agassiz). Twenty miles up the Kaministiquia Biver and on Pie Island, Lake 

 Superior ; Shebandewan Lake, Dawson Route. Abundant all the way from 

 Fort Garry westward to Peace River, and through the Rocky Mountains and 

 Upper British Columbia to Quesnelle (Macoun). North to Bear Lake (Hooker). 



Y. Americana, Mulil. Yar. Sylvatica, Mac. & Gib. 



Leaflets elliptical-lanceolate, somewhat rigid, strongly reticulated ; pedun- 

 cles 2-5 flowered. Climbing over bushes on the banks of the Kamiuistiquia, 

 20 miles from its mouth (Macoun). Saskatchewan and westward (Hooker). 



Lathyrus, L. Yetchling, 



L. maritimus, Bigelow. 



Indigenous. Lake and river beaches from the Gulf of St. Lawrence to Lake 

 Superior. New Brunswick (Mathews). Riviere du Loup, Anticosti, Labrador 

 (Brunet). West coast of Newfoundland ; and Mississagui Island, Lake Huron 

 (Dr. Bell). Presqu'ile Point, Lake Ontario, and very abundant along the 

 shores of Lake Superior (Macoun). Hamilton (Logie). Mouth of the River 

 aux Sables, south (Gibson). Saskatchewan Valley (Bourgeau). Kotzebue's 

 Sound and Arctic America (Richard). 



L. venosus, Muhl. 



Indigenous. Shady river banks and thickets. Whirlpool, Niagara FaUs 

 (Maclagan). Very abundant 15 miles up the Kaministiquia River, and along 

 Rainy Pdver, Lake of the Woods, extending westward to the Athabasca 

 (Macoun). River St. Pierre (Dr. Holmes). West to Pacific (Macoun). 



Y. ochroleucus, Hook. 



Indigenous. Rocky hiU sides and thickets. Kingston and Chippawa 

 (Maclagan). Hamilton (Logie). Rocky woods near Belleville ; North shore 

 of Lake Superior and Kaministiquia River ; abundant on the Dawson Route ; 



