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springs in low wet places, N.B. {Fowler's Cat.) Common throughout 

 Quebec and Ontario. {Macoun.') Saskatchewan. {Richardson.') 



(736.) C. alternifolium, Linn. 



In the woody, and principally in the barren country of British 

 America. {Richardson.') On the Arctic islands. {Parry.) On the 

 Eocky Mountains. {Drummond.) Vicinity of Quesnel, and up the 

 Telegraph Trail to Port St. James, Stuart Lake, B.C. {Macoun.) 

 Ilgacho Brook, northern B.C. {Dawson.) Kotzebue Sound to Cape 

 Lisbm-ne. {Rothr. Alash.) Greenland. {Hook. Arct. PI.) 



r84. PARNASSIA, Tourn. (GRASS OF PARNASSUS.) 



(737.) P. palustris, Linn. 



Throughout Canada, as far north as the Arctic Circle, and in swamps 

 in the Eocky Mountains, Lat. 52°-56° ; Labrador and Newfoundland ; 

 and Cape N"ewnham, on the west coast, Lat. 59°. {Hooker.) Metapodia 

 Eiver, Q., near its mouth. {Macoun.) Island of Anticosti. {Brunei.) 

 On damp soil, Little Metis, Q. {Harrington.) Under the bank at Fort 

 Francis, Eainy Eiver, and westward to the Pacific. {Macoun.) Pine 

 Eiver Pass, in the Eocky Mountains, and frequent in British Columbia. 

 {Dawson.) Pi'om Oxford House to York Factory, and on the Churchill 

 Eiver. {R. Bell.) 



(738.) P. parviflora, DC. 



Labrador! {Butler.) Eomantic Islet, north-east, Magdalen Islands, 

 Gulf of St. Lawrence. {McKay.) Grand M^tis, Q. {Burgess.) Borders 

 of the Elvers Ste. Anne, Jacques Oartier, Q. {Brunet.) Veiy abundant 

 along the Gaspe coast from Cape Eosier to Ste. Anne des Monts ; also 

 up the Ste. Anne Eiver, Q. ; north shore of Lake Superior, near Pic 

 Eiver. Eed Bay, Lake Huron ; Port Edmonton on the Saskatchewan, 

 and on rocks. Peace Eiver, Canyon, Lat. 56°. {Macoun.) Sandy banks, 

 formed by the floods in the rivers among Eocky Mountains, Lat. 52°-56°. 

 {Drummond.) 



(739.) P. Caroliniana, Michx. 

 P. palustris, Pursh, 208. 



Crevices of rocks and on floating logs in rivers. Flat lands, Eesti- 

 gouche, N.B. {Chalmers.) Andover, Victoria, N.B. {J. JEJ. Wetmore.) 

 Vicinity of Quebec; Isle of Orleans. {Brunet.) Crevices of rocks, 

 Niagara Falls ; Presqu' He Point, Lake Ontario ; and Pott's Mill Dam, 

 Brighton, Ont. ; Eed Bay, Lake Hui-on. {Macoun.) Banks of the 



