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XOI. SANTALAOEJS. Sandal-wood Family. 

 531. COMANDRA, Nutt. (BASTARD TOAD-FLAX.) 

 (1928.) C. umbellata, Nutt. 



Thedum umhellatum, Linn. Pursh, Fl. I., 177. 

 T. corymbuhsum, Michx. Fl. 1., 112. 



In meadows and dry grassy woods, and thickets. On a piece of dry 

 ground near Sydney Mines, Cape Breton. (Macoun.) Lake St. Peter, 

 below Montreal. (^Maclagan.) At Tadousac, Pointe des Monts' and 

 Mingan Islands, Eiver St. Lawrence. (;S^. Gyr.') Eockcliffe and King's 

 Mountain, near Ottawa. (Fletcher Fl. Ott.) Pine grove south of the 

 Junction, and abundant at the Grrand Trunk gravel pit, Prescott, Ont. 

 (Billings.') Dry rocky banks and sandy plains, quite common in central 

 Ontario, and at Owen Sound. (^Macoun.) Mountain top near the 

 Albion Mills, Hamilton, Ont. (Logie & Buchan.) ISTavy Island, 

 Iffiagara Eiver and Maiden. (Maclagan.) French Creek, below Port 

 Brie, Ont. (David F. Bay.) Dry soil, London, Ont., and at Emerson, 

 Man. (Burgess.) Near Two Heart Eiver, Georgian Bay. (J. Bell.) 

 Abundant at Port Garry and on the North-west Angle road, also at 

 Emerson on the Eed Eiver, 49th parallel. (Dawson.) Common through- 

 out the prairie region, north of Lat. 51° and west to the Eooky 

 Mountains. (Macoun.) Prom Lake Huron to the Saskatchewan and 

 thence to the Eocky Mountains. (Drummond & Richardson.) 



(1929.) C. pallida, A. DC. 



In some abundance on the southern prairie, on dry soil. Prairie 

 near Turtle Mountain and westward on the 49th parallel ; also Milk 

 Eiver Eidge. (Dawson.) Old Wives Lakes, N.W.T. (J. M. Macoun.) 

 On clay soil at the western end of the Cypress Hills and westward to 

 Morley ; also at Spence's Bridge, B.C. (Macoun.) On slopes of the 

 Nicola valley, B.C. (Dawson.) Prom Lytton to Kamloops, B.C. 

 (Fletcher.) 



(1930.) C livida, Eichardson. 



Cold bogs, and on mountain tops, in the south, and on exposed shores 

 in the north. Newfoundland and Labrador. (Morrison & Brenton.) In a 

 peat bog at Kingston, N.S., and peat bog, Sydney Mines, Cape Breton; 

 also abundant on the coast of Anticosti, in bogs. (Macoun.) Near 

 St. John, N.B. (Fowler's Gat.) Port Elgin, Albert Co., N.B. (Brittain.) 

 Peat bogs, Ste. Anne des Monts Eiver, Gasp^, also bogs on top of 



