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(SOST.) L. annotinum, Linn., Hook. Fl. II., 266. 



Veiy common in all cool woods and on mountains across the con- 

 tinent. Brigus, Newfoundland. (B. Bell.) Windsor, Dartmouth, 

 Halifax, and Pictou, N.S. (Sommer's Oat.) Common in dry woods, 

 N.B. (Fowler's Oat.) Tobique Eiver, JST.B. (Say.) Salmon Eiver, 

 N.B. (Wetmore.) Pirate's Cove, Canso, N.S. ; Brackley Point and 

 Cantire, Prince Edward Island, and woods at Salt Lake, Anticosti; 

 also Gasp^ Coast, Q. (Macoun.) Vicinity of Ottawa. (Fletcher Fl. 

 Ott.) Low woods, Lake of the Woods, and Sault Ste. Marie, Ont. 

 (Burgess.) Lake Mistassini, N. E. Ter., and Loon Strait, Lake Winni- 

 peg. (J. M. Macoun.) Common in northern Ontario and westward to 

 the Eocky Mountains, from Castle Mountain westward to the Selkirk 

 Summit at Glacier ; and westward to the Gold Eange and the moun- 

 tains, on Vancouver Island. (Macoun.) Crow Nest Pass, Eocky 

 Mountains, and Iltasyouco Eiver, B.C. (Dawson.) Cariboo Moun- 

 tains, B.C. ; altitude 6000 feet. (Bowman.) Killisnow Island, Alaska. 

 (Meehen.) Sitka, Ounalaskka, and Kotzebue Sound. (Jtothr. Alask.) 

 Canada to Slave Lake ; Observatory Inlet to Millbank Sound. (Hook. 

 Fl.) 



Var. alpestre, Hartm. 



Summit of Mount Albert, Gasp4, Q. ; altitude 4000 feet. (Macoun.) 

 Crevices of rocks, Nain, coast of Labrador. (B. Bell.) 



Var. pungens, Spreng. 



This form has longer and sharper leaves than the preceding. Summit 

 of Mount Arrowsmith, Vancouver Island ; altitude 5700 feet. (Macoun.) 



(.3038.) L. sabinsefolium, (Willd.) Hook. Fl. IL, 266. 



L. complanatum, L. var. sabinsefolium, Gray Man., ed. V., 674. 



Nearly all our specimens are referred here as we have little of the 

 L. alpinum that has the flattened stem of the European form. We 

 believe Hooker correctly characterized this form when he said : — 

 "foliis undique imbricatis nunc quadrifariis cequalibus erectis tereti-subu- 

 latis," and this surely cannot be said of L. alpinum which has flattened 

 stems and unequal leaves. Newfoundland. (Oormack.) Stanhope 

 Eoad, Prince Edward Island; Summit of Mount Albert, Gasp6, Q. 

 (Macoun.) Table Top Mountain, Gasp^, Q. (Porter.) Lake Mis- 

 tassini, N. E. Ter. (J. M. Macoun.) Crane Lake, Muskoka, Ont. 

 (Burgess.) Magpie Eiver, north of Lake Superior and westward ; 



