296 NOTES ON THE BOTANY OF MANITOBA. 
Lophantus anisatus Benth. Common during July on the prairies 
round Carberry, especially wherever i ground has been disturbed. 
It is much frequented by humble bee 
Lithospermum canescens Lehm. Ver y abundant on the prairie 
during May and June. I have ae published some notes upon 
its ~ipstvalfinen (Journ. Bot. 1885, 
n triflorum Nutt. Not observed commonly. In the 
. ae ugust I saw a few plants at aebaely: acid others on 
the railroad at Douglas. 
Physalis grandiflora Hook, Rare. On August 7th I saw two 
a ants in flower on the edge of the Great Swamp, but none else- 
where. 
Gentiana Andrewsii Griseb. Rare. Macoun does not record it 
from the North-West. I saw a few plants in a moist spot at the 
edge of a bluff near Carberry early in September.—G. crinita Froel. 
a in the sleughs round Carberry during August.—G. affinis 
Se ery abundant on the prairies round Gusbably where, 
(hough unnoticed at other times) it makes a great show during a 
short period of the year, namely, during the first three weeks of 
September, as already noticed. — G. Amarella L., var. acuta Hook 
Rather common in sleughs near sees rag the last two weeks 
of August.—G. serrata Gunn. mmon. Sleughs near 
Carberry, and the bank of the Saiiboias ve Souris-mouth, August. 
Chenopodium album. An introduction from Euro ope, but one 
probably introduced at a very early “ass It springs op abundantly 
n disused 8, round settlers’ s, &¢c., and is commonly 
ich. Scarce. I only saw it at one 
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said 
dye with whieh | they colour the moose hair and grass which figares 
= np ornamental work: hence it is sometimes called ‘ squaw 
ie: leagnus argentea Pursh. Common on the drier portions of the 
prairies. It is one of the few shrub-like plants at all able to with- 
stand the fires. In places €s protected from the fire it will sometimes 
vee a height of six feet, but on the open prairie it seldom Se 
is commonly called “ Wolf Willow,” ‘ Dog 
e 
Ii tacospd - The of the berries is of the same colour. 
Neral quantity of a ne ag powdery gern within 
_ Witch is an excessively There is a large caterpillar of 
of this (Platysamia Cuntiaenokomis which feeds upon “the leaves 
afiee, Plant, and is of exactly the same colour as the 
ee 4 remarkably obvious paskaioel of protective colouring. 
. Peng gracilis Ait. Rare. I found a few bo beside Pine 
_ Creek on September 17th, Not seen elsewhere 
