188 GEOLOGICAL SURVEY Or CANADA. 



237. FERULA, Linn. 



(884.) F. dissoluta, "Watson, Bot. Calif. I., 271. 



F. disseeta, Gray. Macoun's Cat, No. 748. 

 Abundant on the mountain slopes above Spence's Bridge, B. C. 



(885.) F. multiflda, Gray. 



Leptotcenia mvltifida, Nutt. Torr. & Gray, Fl. I., 630. 



Common in rich grassy thickets, near Victoria, Vancouver Island. 

 (Macoun.) Mountains in the S. Kootanie Pass, Lat. 49°. (Dawson.) 

 All the specimens examined, of those two species, are very young and 

 may be incorrectly determined. 



238. DAUCUS, Tourn. (CARROT.) 



(886.) D. pusillus, Michx. var. microphyllus, Ton-. & Gray. 

 D. microphyllus, Presl. Hook. Fl. I., 271. 



Nootka Sound and Straits of De Fuca. (Scouler.) Abundant on drj' 

 hills around Victoria, Vancouver Island. (Macoun, JffiU.) 



(887.) D. Carota, Linn. Cultivated Carrot. 



Occasionally found, for a year or two, in gardens and fields, but can 

 scarcely be said to have become spontaneous anywhere. 



239. ARCHEMORA, DC. (COWBANE.) 

 (888.) A. rieida, DC. 



Slum rigidiw, Linn. Pursh, 194. 

 Sison marginatum, Michx. Fl. I., 168. 



Sandy or other swamps, western Ontario. Colchester Station, 

 Canada Southern Railway. (Macoun.) Maiden, Ont. (Maclagan.) 

 Port Colborne. (McGill Coll. Serb.) 



XLVI. AEALIACB.^. Ginseng Family. 



240. ARALIA, Tourn. (GINSENG.) 



(,889.) A. racemosa, Linn. Spikenard, 

 On tui-ned up stumps an -damp woods. Common at Pictou, N.S . 



