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although the flowers are not sufficiently well preserved for abso- 
lute certainty, there seems to be no reason for doubting the 
s 
n 
there seems to be some susgenpenhon as to B. stricta in the 
ae States, if the figure given by Britton and Brown (Illustr. 
Fl. N.U.S. ii. 122, f. 1710 (189 7) pepeecnie what is generally 
star for B. oe by American botanists. The large spreading 
2 the ee aeeal lobes of the leaves are all incompatible with 
B. stricta. We can hardly venture, peers to determine the 
B. stricta is widely distributed, and has been re- 
corded fran the following countries:—EHngla nd, Scotland, Nor- 
way, Sweden, Denmark, Ho = Belgium, France, Germany, 
Switzerland, Italy, Austria, Russia, Bosnia, and Bulgaria. [Italics 
indicate that we have seen a specimen from the country in 
question. ] 
t occurs well within the Arctic Sep the most ee 
records being Kola {neatly 69° N.) and Lumboyski in 
aT given by Fellman (Pl. Vase. Lapp. 7 (1864-9)) ; iia 
eastern in the Russian ouhan of Orenburg and Perm (Kor- 
shinsky, Tent. Fl. Bons: Or. 30 (1898) ), the southern in Bosnia and 
go 
ts occurrence in France, Belgium, and Italy is doubtful. 
Rouy and Foucaud (FI. Sewivos 3 i. 199 soc state that they have 
never seen B. stricta Andrz. from France, although it has been 
recorded from several French ities owing to ailing: how- 
ever, with B. rivularis Martr. 
Crépin (Bull. Soc. Bot. or ae ii. (1863) ee pe to have 
been the first to record B. a from Belgi t a few years 
a 
is no other difference between it andt typical B. vu igaris, and 
it seems probable, therefore, that the Italian “var. stricta” is 
not esa with B. stricta Andrz., but is a mere form of 
B. th 2 
© occurrence of B. stricta in Bosnia and Bulgaria rests on 
Velenovsky’s record (Fl. — 24 (1891)); we have seen no 
specimens from either country. 
_ * B. vulgaris R. Br. var. stricta Regel, quoted from numerous Canadian 
localities in Macoun, Catalogue of Canadian Plaiite, i. p. 45 (1883). 
