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widely diffused. Bedford, near Halifax, N.S. (Sommers, Oat.) Low 

 meadows, N"orth Sydney, Cape Breton. {Burgess.) Ti'uro, and Yar- 

 mouth, N.S. {Macoun.) Magdalen Islands, Gulf of St. Lawrence. 

 (J. Richardson.) Eichibucto, Kouchibouguac, Woodstock and Salmon 

 Eiver, N.B. {Fowler, Cat.) Wet meadows, Gasp^ Basin, Q. Macoun.) 

 Vicinity of Ottawa. {Fletcher, Fl. Ott.) Border of Black Creek, 

 Grimsthorpe, Hastings Co.; abundant at Elliott's Falls, Gull Eiver, 

 Victoria Co., Ont. ; White Eiver, north of Lake Superior ; in wet 

 meadows. Fort William, Thunder Bay. {Macoun.) Lake Mistassini, 

 ISr.E.T., and Fort George, James Bay. (J. M. Macoun.) Moose Fac- 

 tory, James Bay. {Cottar & Dr. Hayden.) Shore of Little Slave Lake 

 and along the Saskatchewan at Fort Carleton, and along Bow Eiver, 

 above Calgary ; in a boggy spot on the " Tote Eoad," one mile west of 

 the Selkirk summit, B.C., 1885. {Macoun.) Saskatchewan Eiver to 

 Bear Lake and English Eiver. {Hooker, Fl.) Southern Greenland. 

 {Hook., Arct. PL) 



(2360.) J. Balticus, Var. /3. littoralis, Bngelm., Mon. Juno. 442. 



/. Balticus, Dethard. ; Hook., FL II., 180. 

 /. glaucus. Rich., App. page 11. 



Sandy shores of lakes and by the sea ; not rare. Pictou, N.S. 

 {McKay.) Along the coast at Yarmouth and Truro, N.S. {Macoun.) 

 Common on the 6oast of Kent Co., N.B. {Fowler, Cat.) Along the 

 coast of An ticosti, at Salt Lake and Jupiter Eiver; Gasp^ Basin and 

 along the coast to Matane, Q. {Macoun.) Mingan Islands, Eiver St. 

 Lawrence. {St. Cyr.) Along the St. Lawj-ence Eiver at Prescott, 

 Ont. ; rare. {Billings.') Abundant at West Lake, Prince Edward Co. 

 and around Presqu'ile Point, Lake Ontario, and five miles north of 

 Trenton, Northumberland Co., Ont. ; Point aux Pins, Sault Ste. Mavie, 

 and along the north-east coast of Lake Superior ; Poplar Eiver, Lake 

 Nipigon and westward. (Macoun.) Sandy shore of Toronto Island, 

 and at Southampton, Lake Hui-on. {Burgess.) Fort George, James 

 Bay. (/. M. Macoun.) North end of Lake Winnipeg, and Knee 

 Lake, Keewatin. {B. Bell.) The panicle of the sea coast form is 

 much more compact than that from the Great Lakes. 



Var. y. montanus, Engelm., Mon. June, 442. 

 /. Balticus, Hook., Fl. II., 189, in part. 

 This form is abundant throughout the prairie region, extending 

 from the eastern border at Eed Eiver across the prairies and through 

 the Eocky Mountains to Donald on the Columbia. {Macoun.) Sas- 

 katchewan Eiver near the mountains, and at Little Slave Lake. 

 {Hooker, Fl.) 



