148 Canadian Record of Science. 



KApiianus Kaphanistrum, Linn. 



Naturalized in fields at Agassiz, B. C, and in waste places 

 at Esquimault and Cedar Hill, Vancouver Island. (John 



Macoun.) 



Spiesia Oxytropis Belli, Britton, n. sp. 



Acaulescent, tufted, loosely villous, with white hairs. 

 Stipules membranaceous, ovate or oblong, acute or acumin- 

 ate, imbricated, villous or glabrate, 5 "-7" long; leaves 

 3'-6' long; leaflets oblong or oblong-lanceolate, subacute 

 at the apex, rounded at the base, 3"-±" long, l"-2" wide; 

 in verticils of three or four ; peduncles about eq ualling the 

 leaves ; inflorescence capitate; pods oblong, erect-spreading, 

 densely pubescent, with black hairs or some longer whitish 

 ones intermixed, about 9" long and 3" in diameter, about 

 three times as long as the black-pubescent calyx, very 

 nearly or quite two-celled by the intrusion of the ventral 

 suture, their tips erect ; corolla not seen. 



Digges' Island, Hudson Bay (R. Bell, 1884) ; Chester- 

 field Inlet, Hudson Bay (J. W. Tyrrell, 1893). Types in 

 the herbarium of the Geological Survey of Canada. 



The only other North American species thus far described 

 with verticillate leaflets is S. splendens, with which the one 

 here proposed has but little affinity. There are, however, 

 a number of northern Asiatic species sharing this charac- 

 ter, but I am unable to refer the Hudson Bay plant to any 

 of them. (N. L. Britton.) 



Cercis Canadensis, L. 



Pelee Island, Lake Erie. (John Macoun.) One tree of 

 this species was pointed out to Prof. Macoun in 1892. An 

 old resident remembered having seen this tree in his boy- 

 hood, but knew of no other on the island. It grows close 

 beside the lake, and is doubtless indigenous. 



Myriophyllum alternifolium, DC. 



Brigham's Creek, near Hull, Que., 1891. (W. Scott.) 

 The only other Canadian station is Lake Memphramagog, 

 Que. 



