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759. OSMUNDA, Linn., Cen. PI., No. 1172. 



(FLOWERING-FERN.) 



(3030.) O. regalis, Linn., Sp. PI., 1521. Swartz, Syn. Fil., 160. 

 Michx., Fl. Bor.-Am., ii., 213. Hook. & Baker, Syn. Pil., 42Y. 

 Provancher, Fl. Can., *721. "Watt, Can. Nat, iv., 364. Macoun 

 & Burgess, Trans. Eoy. Soc. Can., ii., sect, iv., 223. 



O. speciabilis, Willd., Sp. PL, v., 98. Pursh, Fl. Am. Sept., ii., 658. 



Hook., FL Bor.-Am., ii., 265. 

 O. regalis, var. specldbiUg, Milde, Fil. Eur. et Atlant., 178. Lawson, Can. 



Nat., i., 290 ; Fern. Fl. Can., 247. 



A tall-growing species of very common occurrence in wet places in 

 most parts of the eastern half of our territory, though rare toward its 

 western limit, which is the Saskatchewan. Observed north of Lake 

 Superior at Eound Lake, on the line of the Canadian Pacific Eailway, 

 twelve miles east of the Pic Eiver, and at Current Eiver, Thunder Bay, 

 Ont. {Macoun.) Abundant around Lake Mistassini, N. B. Ter. ; on 

 Muskeg Island, Lake Winnipeg. (J. M. Macoun.) Through Canada 

 westward to the Saskatchewan. (Eaton.) 



(3031.) O. Claytoniana, Linn., Sp. PI., 1521. Swartz, Syn. Fil., 

 160. Pursh, Fl. Am. Sept., ii., 65Y. Hook. & Baker, Syn. Fil., 

 426. Lawson, Can. Kat., i., 291. "Watt, Can. Nat., iv., 364. 

 Macoun & Burgess, Trans. Eoy. Soc. Can., ii., sect, iv., 224. 



0. interrupta, Michx., FL Bor.-Am., ii., 273. Swartz, Syn. Fil., 160. 

 Pursh, FL Am. Sept., ii., 657. Hook., Fl. Bor.-Am., ii., 265. 

 Provancher, Fl. Can., 721. 



A handsome fern found growing in tufts in low grounds, and common 

 throughout Canada from Newfoundland and Nova Scotia to Lake 

 Superior, probably finding its western limit in Manitoba. Not uncom- 

 mon around Lake Nepigon and Thunder Bay, Ont. (^Macoun.) "Very 

 abundant among boulders all around Lake Mistassini, N. B. Ter. 

 (J. M. Macoun.) Collected by Bourgeau at Sturgeon Lake, some hundred 

 miles north-west of Lake Superior, and, according to Milde, on Lake 

 "Winnipeg. 



(3032.) O. cinnamomea, Linn., Sp. PI., 1522. Swartz, Syn. Fil., 

 ] 60. Michx., Fl. Bor.-Am., ii., 2'73. Pursh, Fl. Am. Sept., ii., 657. 

 Hook., Fl. Bor.-Am., ii., 265. Hook. & Baker, Syn. Fil., 426. 

 Provancher, Fl. Can., Y21. Lawson, Can. Nat., i., 290. Macoun 

 & Burgess, Trans. Eoy. Soc. Can., ii., sect, iv., 225. 



