CATALOGUE OF CANADIAN PLANTS. 6Y 



Vicinity of Vancouver city, B.C. {Prof. Fowler.) This species seems 

 to have very light-colored capsules and sepals, and has a very different 

 cyme from var. parviflora, which is well described by the name. 



(2391.) L. pilosa, Willd.; Hook., Fl. II., 188. 



Not uncommon in rich, and sandy woods throughout Ontario, but 

 more sparingly distributed eastward. Newfoundland. {Reeks.') Truro, 

 and Windsor, N.S. (Macoun.) Common inj>\d fields, N.B. (Fowler, Cat.) 

 Gomin- woods, near Quebec. (St. Cyr.) Vicinity of Ottawa. (Fletcher, 

 Fl. Ott.) Thicket a mile west of Prescott, Ont. (Billings.) Vicinity of 

 Hamilton, Ont. (Buchan.) Thickets at Kingston and London, Ont. 

 (Millman.) Sandy woodland near London, Ont. (Burgess.) Open woods 

 at Sudbury Junction, and at North Bay, Lake Nipissing ; not uncom- 

 mon in woods at Belleville and numerous places in the adjoining coun- 

 ties ; woods at Nipigon, Lake Superior, and on top of a clay bank 

 twenty-five miles up the Kaministiqua Eiver, (Macoun.) Canada to 

 the Saskatchewan. (Hooker, Fl.) 



(2392.) L. campestris, Desv., var. a. vulgaris, Hook., PI. 

 II., 188. 



Juncm campestris, Willd. ; Pursh, Fl. I., 238. 

 Rather common in dry meadows, or open woods. Newfoundland. 

 (Cormack.) New Harbor, Newfoundland, (Bev. A. Waghorne.) Hali- 

 fax, N.S. (Sammers.) Magdalen Islands, N.S. (J. Bichardson.) Truro, 

 Yarmouth, and Kingston, N.S. (Macoun.) Dry fields ; common, N.B. 

 (Fowler, Cat.) Island of Orleans, Q. (St. Cyr.) South side of Gaspd 

 Basin, Q. (J. Bell.) Vicinity of Ottawa. (Fletcher, Fl. Ott.) Thicket 

 a mile west of Prescott, Ont. (Billings.) Dry woods and meadows at 

 Belleville, and Shannonville, Hastings Co., Ont. (Macoun.) Sandy 

 woodland, London, Ont. (Burgess.) Thickets at Kingston ,and Lon- 

 don, Ont. (Millman.) This variety has dense brown heads and is 

 quite distinct in color from the next, which has pale heads of fruit and 

 flowers. 



Var. Id. pallescens, Hook., Fl. II., 188. ' 



Quite common in meadows at Belleville, Ont. (Macoun.) Lake 

 Winnipeg to the Saskatchewan, and from the Lake of the Woods to the 

 Eocky Mountains. (Hooleer, Fl.) Greenland. (Lange.) 



Var. y. comosa, Hook., Fl. IL, 188. 



Flowers in a dense solitary brown head. Bear Lake. (Hooker, Fl.) 

 The forms of this and the following, species require careful examina- 

 tion and comparison with European species, and indeed the whole 

 genus is much in need of a complete revision. 



