276 NOTES ON THE BOTANY OF MANITOBA. 
eager! var. Nuttalliana Gray. Commonly called ‘ Sand- 
Bower" a pare < “May. e! nel acer all over the prairie 
in very early spring. “Ts flowers appear in great abundance a the 
earliest possible opportunity after the dixeppentancé of the snow. 
It is always the first flower thus to put in an appearance, aia Mr. 
nearly every animal that lives upon the prairie—sheep, cattle, 
pgm prairie chickens, and Prtectin the buffaloes while they 
still existed. Were it not for these flowers, the wild animals would 
be very near of food for the first week or two of spring. Doubtless 
this habit of floweri 
species some 
r.—A. siictonss L. Common in moist spots on the prairie 
ghs. Flowers during July. 
Caltha palustris 4, Common on the edge of the Great Swamp. 
Sarracenia purpurea L. The Indian Pitcher-plant. Very com- 
mon over large areas in the Great Swamp, where the tamaracs 
grow less densely. On July 24th I rae all the plants in seed. 
Helianthemum oe Michx. Very uncommon. I only saw 
it in one spot, nam namely, in the edge of a on near Carberry, on 
August 4th, when it was in full flower. Macoun gives ‘ Plains of 
_— but = ed = locality as eal tful. 
Drosera rotundifolia L. Fair common in the Great Swamp. — 
7 
intro sae I found it growin, 
~ ‘sparingly in an oat-fiela near Carberr. : : 
Be Sirseved Githago Lam, Not uncommon in wheat-fields and 
Li ses, having of course been introduced with seed-corn. 
mum perenne Li. Very common in many places on the prairie. 
_ 4. sulcatum ? In flower abundantly on July 26th, over a very 
which i mes sere the summit of the very highest of the sand-hills, 
18 quite the Ra os within some miles 0 “1d Carbe 
s I could see, it is not a eterostyled 
— : petals | Sin salad very ‘readily. 
cranium Careline L. Macoun — of it as very abundan 
. -burned woods from Nova Scotia to thie 
” ae Ben es observed it once, bas he on the open prairie 
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