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and King's Go's. ; also St. John city, JST.B. (Fowler, Oat.) Portland, 

 N.B. (Matthews.) In woods, Gaspd Basin, Q. (Macoun.) Island of 

 Orleans. (St. Cyr.) In rich woods, Eivifere du Loup, Q. (Thomas.) 

 Papineau Wood, near Montreal, 1821. (Dr. Holmes.) Abundant in 

 rocljy woods, Argenteuil Co., Q. (D' Urban.) Local at Ottawa, 

 (Fletcher, Fl. Ott.) Somewhat rare at Prescott, Ont. (Billings.) 

 North Bay, Lake Nipissing, and at Collingwood, Georgian Bay. 

 (Macoun.) St. Eemi, Q. ; and Kemptville, Ont. (McGill Coll. Herb.) 

 Eich woods, Hatehley, Ont; Port Cockburn, Lake Joseph, Muskoka 

 Co., Ont. (Burgess.) 



630. MELANTHIUM, Linn. Gen. 454. 



(2349.) M. Virgin! cum, Linn. ; Gray, Man. Ed. V., 524. 



M. hybridum, Pursh, Fl. I., 242. 



Leimanthium hybridum, Eoem. ; Hook., Fl. II., 177. 

 Upper Canada. (Hooker, Fl.) We have never seen a Canadian 

 specimen- of this species, and cannot speak explicitly of its occurrence 

 in western Ontario. Certainly the region where Mr. Goldie botanized 

 (the shores of Lake Erie) is less known botanically, than any other 

 part of the Dominion, except the extreme north. 



631. VERATRUM, Linn. Gen. 1144. (FALSE HELLEBORE. 



(2350.) V. viride, Ait. ; Pursh, PL L, 242 ; Hook. Fl. IL 1Y8. 



r. album, Michx., Fl. I., 249 ; Macoun, Cat. No. 1829. 



V. Eschscholtzii, Gray ; Eothr. Alask. 456. 



V. album, var. EschschoUzii, Dawson, Bound. Rep. 374. 



Eather common on intervales of the Eestigouche, Eichibucto, St. 

 John, and Kennebeccasis rivers, ]Sr.B. (Fowler, Oat.) In numerous 

 places along the Gaspd coast, from Mont Louis to Metis. (Macovn.) 

 Island of Orleans, Q. (St. Oyr.) Very common at Eivi^re du Loup, Q. 

 (Thomas.) South Kootanie Pass and foothills of Eocky Mountains, 49th 

 parallel. (Dawson. Burgess.) In mountain swamps and on snow-slides 

 from Castle Mountain, in the Eocky Mountains, westward to the Selkirks 

 and mountains in the Peace Eiver Pass, lat. 56° ; on mountain slopes 

 and in river valleys, Mount Finlayson, Mount Benson, Mount Arrow- 

 smith, and Mount Mark; also at Goldstream, Nanaimo, Qualicum and 

 Alberni, Vancouver Island. (Macoun.) Sooke, Vancouver Island. 



