42 GEOLOGICAL StTRVET OF CANADA. 



Var. giganteum, Hook., Fl. II., 182. 



Summit of Coast Eange, near the Pi-aser Eiver, B.C., 18'7'7. Stems^ 

 three to four flowered. (JDawson.) Harrison Lake, B.C. (^BurgesSy 

 Serb.) Flowers, large bright yellow. 



Var. (?) minor, Morren. Belg. Hort. XXVI., 109. 



The specimens referred here are all from high mountain summits,, 

 generally one flowered and bright yellow. In moist thickets South 

 Kootanie Pass, 1831, and on the western summit of the North Kootanie 

 Pass, Eocky Mountains, (Dawson.) On the summit of Hope Moun- 

 tain, B.C. (J. Tolmie.) Goose Creek Mountains, Cariboo, B.C., 6,000 

 feet alt. (Bowman.) In abundance on mountains around Kicking 

 Horse Lake, and on the beds of snow-slides, passing up to the limit of 

 perpetual snow ; in great profusion at the summit of the Selkirks,. 

 close to the melting snow, Aug. 24th, 1885 ; abundant on the summit 

 of Mount Benson, alt. 3,363 feet; occasional specimens on Mount 

 Arrowsmith, alt. 5,500 feet, Vancouver Island. (Macoun.) 



620. LLOYDIA, Salisb. 



(2324.) L. serotina, Eeichenb. Watson, Proced. Am. Acad.,. 

 XIV., 261. 



Anthericum serotinum, Linn. Hook., Fl. II., 183. 

 St. Lawrence and Ounalashka islands. Cape Lisburne and Kotzebue- 

 Sound. (Rothr. Alask.) Northern Arctic coast. (Br. Richardson.) 



621. CALOCHORTUS, Pursh, Fl. I., 240. 



(2325.) C. elegans, Pursh, var. nanus, Wood. Proc. Phil. Acad.. 

 168 (1868). 



C. elegans, Hook., Fl. II., 183; Macoun, Cat. No. 1873. 

 C. Lyallii, Baker, Journ. Linn. Soc. XIV., 305. 

 C. elegans, var. minor. Hook., Fl. II., 183. 

 Summit of the South Kootanie and Crow Nest passes, Eocky Moun- 

 tains. (Dawson.) Eecesses of the Eocky Mountains, near the region 

 of perpetual snow. (Douglas.) 



(2326.) C- macrocarpus, Dougl. Hook., PL II., 183. 



Dry, gravelly soil on the mountains above Lytton, B.C. (Macoun.) 

 Very fine specimens at Kamloops, B.C. (Prof. Fowler.) Similkameen 

 Eiver ; near Wild Horse Creek, Kootanie Valley, B.C. (Dawson.) 

 Abundant at Lytton, Spence's Bridge, and Kamloops, B.C. (Fletcher.}. 



