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(Macoun & Porter.) Eocky Mountains, South Kootanie Pass, 6,500 

 feet altitude, 49th parallel ; Michell Creek, Crow Nest Pass, western 

 summit of North Kootanie Pass, and head waters of High-wood 

 Eivei-, Eocky Mountains; also near Tanyabunkat Lake, B.C. {Dawson.) 

 Alpine prairies of the Eocky Mountains, Lat. 52°-56°. (Drummond.) 

 Cold damp meadows near McLeod's Lake, Lat. 55°, B.C. ; also on 

 the slopes of the Eocky Mountains, Kicking Horse Pass. (Macoun.) 

 Bartlett Bay, Alaska. (Meehan.) Sitka and Ounalashka. (Bothr. 

 Alash.) Eastern specimens are much more hairy than those from the 

 Eocky Mountains. The latter seem to represent the F. nutans of 

 Bongard. 



(16'75.) V. serpyllifolia, Linn. 



Open grassy grounds, roadsides, pastures, and borders of ditches ; 

 appearing generally like an introduced plant, but extending in such 

 situations from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and far to the north passing 

 the Arctic Circle. On the west coast it passes north to the Aleutian 

 Islands off the coast of Alaska. 



(1616.) V. peregrina, Linn. Neck-weed. 



Common throughout the whole of Canada along the margins of i-ivers 

 and wet or muddy places in cultivated fields, meadows or pastures. In 

 the prairie region it is frequent on exsiccated ground and brook aides. 

 On the margins of the great rivers it passes far to the north and 

 almost reaches the Arctic Sea on the Mackenzie. 



(1677.) V. arvensis, Linn. Corn Speedwell. 



Extensively naturalized in cultivated and waste ground. Od the 

 grassy slopes of Cape Forteau, at Yarmouth, and on Cape Blomidon, 

 at the "Look-out," N.S. {Macoun.) St. Andrews, N.B. {Vroom.) 

 Chamcook Mountain, N.B. {Hay.) Portage, King's Co., and Hills- 

 borough, N.B. {Brittain.) Vicinity of Ottawa. {Fletcher Fl. Ott.) 

 Eamsay, Carleton Co., Ont. {Rev. J. K. McMorine.) Miriwin's Woods, 

 near Prescott, Ont., rare. {Billings.) Vicinity of Belleville at the 

 gravel pit, and near the paper mill ; also at Pine Grove, Brighton, 

 and neaf the village of Castleton, Northumberland Co. ; also around 

 Owen Sound on waste places. {Macoun.) Kingston and Port Eobin- 

 son, Ont. {Maclagan.) Vicinity of Hamilton, Ont. {Buchan.) 

 Neighborhood of London, Ont. {Burgess.) Vicinity of Toronto. 

 {Fowler.) 



(1678.) V. agrestis, Linn. 



Naturalized in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick. Windsor, N.S. 

 {How.) Introduced into a garden a few years ago at Eichibucto, N.B., 



