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common. On the bank of the Detroit Eiver at Amherstburg, Ont. 

 (Macoun.) Chippawa, Navy Island, and Maiden, Ont. (Maclagan.) 

 Ontario, near the lakes. (Douglas.) 



(554.) V. Americana, Muhl. 



r. tridentata, Schw. Torr. & Gray, Fl. I., 272. 

 V. Oregana, Nutt. Macoun's Cat., No. 478. 



Belledune, Eestigouche, N. B. (Chalmers.) From the Falls of 

 Niagara to the Pacific coast. Very abundant in the northern prairie 

 region and in the wooded country, as far north as Bear Lake. It is 

 also abundant in the Eocky Mountains and British Columbia, and north 



to Alaska. 



Var. linearis, Watson. 



Laihyrus linearis, Nutt. Torr. & Gray, Fl. I., 276. 

 L. dimtifolius, Nutt. Torr. & Gray, Fl. I., 277. 



Very abundant throughout the prairie region, N.W.T. Not seen in 

 the forest country. (Macoun.) 



(555.) V. gigantea, Hook. PI. I., 157. 



Along the Pacific coast to Alaska. Queen Charlotte Islands. (Dawson.) 

 Sitka, and Arctic coast. (Both. Alask.) 



148. LATHYRUS, Linn. (EVERLASTING PEA.) 



(556.) L.. maritimus, Bigel. 



Pisum maritimwm, Linn. Eichards. in Frankl. Journ., 17. 

 L. pisiforinis, Hook. Fl. I., 158. 



Coast of Labrador. (McQill Coll. Serb.) Abundant on sea beaches, 

 Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and around the Gulf of St. Lawrence. 

 James Bay, east side of Hudson's Bay, and north end of Lake Winnipeg. 

 (B. Bell.) Sand beaches along the Great Lakes, quite common. 

 (Macoun.) Muskoka Lakes and Georgian Bay. (Burgess.) Shores of 

 the Arctic Sea. (Bichardson.) Johnston's Strait, B. C. (Dawson.) 

 Sitka and western coast of Alaska. (Both. Alask.) 



(557.) L. venosus, Muhl. 



L. decaphyllus, Hook. Fl. I., 159. 



From the Kaministiquia Eiver, Lake Superior, across the continent 

 to the Pacific Ocean. This species is abundant in the mixed prairie 

 and forest country, north of Lat. 52°. 



