216 GEOLOGICAL SUEVET OF CANADA. 



Vav. gigantea, Gray. 



S. serotina, Torr. & Gray Fl. II., 224. Macoun's Cat., No. 911. 



Borders of thickets and low grounds ; common throughout Canada' 

 Newfoundland, ISTova Scotia, New Brunswick, and westward to the 

 Pacific ; also northward on the Peace Eiver to Lat. 59°. (Macoun.) 



(1002.) S. lepida, DC. 



Along- the north-west coast to Alaska. (^Gray.) Queen Charlotte 

 Islands. 1878. (Dawson.') Nootka. (Hcenke.) 



(1003.) S. elongata, ISlutt. 



S. data, Hook. Fl. 11., 5. 



S. Canadensis, Hook. Fl. II., 1. As to Arctic specimens. 



Ai'ctic America, from Slave Lake to Fort Franklin, on the Mackenzie 

 Kiver. (JBlchardson.') Forms approaching S. Canadensis have been 

 collected by myself and Dr. Dawson along the eastern base of the 

 Eocky Mountains and northward to Peace Eiver. (Macoun.) Chileoten 

 Eiver, west of the Fraser, B.C. (Dawson.) Straits of De Fuca. 

 (Scouler.) Abundant on Yancouver Island and up the Fraser and 

 Thompson rivers, B. C. (Fletcher.) Yictoria, Vancouver Island. 

 (Meehan.) 



(1004.) S. Canadensis, Linn. Common Golden-rod. 



Our commonest Golden-rod extending under one form or another 

 from the Atlantic to the Pacific. North to Fort Franklin on the Mac- 

 kenzie. (Richardson.) 



Var. procera, Torr. & Gray. . 

 S. j'focera. Ait. Hook. Fl. II., 2. 



Apparently not rare in the Atlantic provinces. Jupiter Eiver, 

 Antieosti. (Macoun.) New Brunswick. (Fowler.) Canada. (Pursh.) 

 Vicinity of Ottawa. (Fletcher.) Wooded couatrj- between Lat. 54°- 

 64°. (Richardson.) 



Yav. scabra, Torr. & Gi'ay. 



This form, or one taken for it, is common on the open prairie in the 

 North-west Territory. South-east of Hurricane Hills, and Souris 

 Plain. (J. M. Macoun 0. P. R. Gall.) Common south of Battleford 

 and around the Hand Hills, and west to Morley. (Macoun.) 



(1005.) S. nemoralis, Ait. 



Di-y or sterile fields and sandy or gravelly thickets or prairies, com- 

 mon. From Anticosti westward to the Eocky Mountains. The prahne 



