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Port Ellice. (Macoun.) Crow Nest Lake, North Pork of Old Man 

 River, Eocky Mountains. (Dawson.) Prairies of the Eocljy Mountains, 

 Lat. 54-56°. (Drummond.') 



Var. mollis, Gray. 



Along Belly Eiver in the Foot Hills of the Eoeky Mountains ; also, 

 at Michell Creek, Eocky Mountains. (Daioson.} This form might 

 be attached to the preceding species, but it has a hairy involucre, and 

 its stem is leafy up to the flower or flowers and the leaves are sessile, 

 broad at the base, and tapeiing to the point, ciliate on the margins and 

 the midrib covered below with long hairs. 



(1085.) E. salsuginosus, Gray. 



Aster salsuginosus, Etch. Hook. Fl. II., 6. Macoun's Cat., No. 841. 

 A. Unalaschensis, Nees. Hook. Fl. II. 7. 



Salt plains of the Athabasca (?) {Bichardson.') Eocky Mountains. 

 (Drummond.') Alpine Eocky Mountains. (Bourgeau.) Eocky Moun- 

 tains, 6,000 feet altitude on the 49th parallel ; Michell Creek, Ci-ow 

 Nest Pass ; western summit of the North Kootanie Pass ; summit of 

 the North Kootanie Pass ; summit of the South Kootanie Pass ; Skasrit 

 Eiver, Il-ga-chug Mountains, Tsi-tse Lake, Upper Blackwater Eiver, 

 B.C {Daivson.) 



Var. Unalaschkensis, Less. 



Queen Charlotte Islands, 1878. {Dawson.) Two forms were gathered. 

 One with narrow leaves and a very leafy hairy stem, the hairs not at 

 all appressed; the othci- with a less hairy stem fewer and larger 

 leaves, which are slightly denticulate and more pointed. Li both, the 

 involucral bracts are quite hairy, and in the latter very much attenuated 

 and variously cm-ved at the tips. These forms are doubtless distinct, 

 but we need more specimens to determine. 



(1086.) E. bellldifolius, Muhl. 



E. putcMlus, Michx. Fl. II., 124. 

 Dry, sandy fields and pine woods. Halifax, N.S. (8ommers.) 

 Pictou, N.S. {McKay.) Common at Rivi6re-du-Loup, Q. {Thomas.) 

 (Very doubtful. ) Dry, sandy woods common at Belleville and west- 

 ward in the Lake Ontario counties. {Macoun.) Prince's Island, near 

 Hamilton, Ont. {Logie.) Niagara Palls and westward. {Maclagan.) 

 Not uncommon at London, Ont. {Burgess.) 



(108'7.) E. Phlladelphlcus, L. Torr. & Gray PI. IL, 111. 

 E. purpureus, Hook. Fl. II., 19. 

 Low grassy places along streams and in the valleys of all the large 



