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below with mostly stellate spreading hairs, glabrous above 

 or but sparingly puberulent, a foot high; leaves small and 

 narrow, J- inch long or less, the lower very rarely few- 

 toothed, the cauline sagittate at base ; flowers very small, 

 pale rose-colour, 2 lines long ; pods very narrow, 1 to 1J 

 inches long and about £ line broad, glabrous, slightly 

 curved, mostly divaricate on very slender pedicels 2 to 4 

 lines long, acute, the stigma nearly sessile ; seeds (imma- 

 ture) approximately 1 rowed, apparently wingless ; near 

 A. hirsuta. 



Gravelly banks, Eevelstoke, B.C., May 13th, 1890. (John 

 Macoun.) 



Trifolium procumbens, Linn. 



An erect form of this plant was found by Prof. Macoun 

 in 1893, growing in fields at Comox, Vancouver Island. Not 

 recorded before from western Canada, though the var. minus 

 is common on Vancouver Island. 



Trifolium involucratum, Willd. 



Collected at Eevelstoke, B.C. in 1890 by Prof. Macoun. 

 Abundant on Vancouver Island, but not before collected in 

 the interior of British Columbia. 



Trifolium microcephalum, Tursh. 



Collected at Eevelstoke and Sproat on the Columbia 

 Eiver, B.C. in 1890 by Prof. Macoun. Common on Van- 

 couver Island, but not before recorded from interior of Brit- 

 ish Columbia. 



Lotus corniculatus, Linn. 



Eecorded from New Brunswick. Collected in 1890 at 

 Victoria, Vancouver Island, by Eev. Edw. L. Greene. 



ASTRALAGUS EoBBINSII, Gl\ var. OCCIDENTALS, Wat. 



Not before separated in Canada from A.alpinus. the western 

 form of which it somewhat resembles. Bow Eiver at Mor- 

 ley, Alberta ; near the Glacier at Lake Louise, Eocky Mts. ; 

 Deer Park, Columbia Eiver, B.C. (John Macoun.) Gui- 



