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Eocky Mountains, Lat. 51°, and northward to Lake Athabasca. 

 (Macoun.) Muskeg Island, Lake Winnipeg. (J. M. Macoun.) Hill 

 Eiver, Hudson Bay. (E. Bell.) Old Man Eiver, base of Eocky 

 Mountains. (Dawson.) Throughout Canada and from Lake Huron 

 to the Saskatchewan and Jasper's Lake in the Eocky Mountains, Lat. 

 54°, and as far north as Fort Franklin on the Mackenzie Eiver. 

 {Richardson <S- Drummmd.) 



(2029.) S. myrtilloides, Linn. Myrtle Willow. 

 & pedicellaris, Pursh. Hook. Fl. II., 150. 



Peat and other cold bogs, from the Atlantic to the Coast Eange, B.C. 

 In bogs, Eichibucto, N.B. (Fowler's Cat.) In peat bogs, summit of 

 Mount Albert, Shickshock Mountains, Gasp^. (^Macoun.) Marsh near 

 Frescott Junction, Ont. (Billings.) In tamarack and other swamps. 

 Hasting Co., Ont. ; cold peat bog, Eed Eock, Lake Superior. Marshes 

 at the mouth of the Kaministiquia, and near Port Arthur, and in bogs 

 at Eainy Lake. (Macoun.) Muskeg Island, Lake Winnipeg. (J. M. 

 Macoun.) Near Lonely Lake, and on the Echimanish Eiver, Hudson 

 Bay. {R. Bell.) Saskatchewan to Port Franklin on the Mackenzie 

 Eiver. (Richardson.) In bogs, north-west of Edmonton, and near 

 Lesser Slave Lake ; also in the valley of Bow Eiver, near Gleichen, 

 and in the valley of Eraser Eiver at Quesnel, B. C. (Macoun.) 

 Kotzebue Sound, Alaska. (Rothr. Alask.) Eastern British America, 

 north of the arctic circle. {Hook. Arct. Fl.) 



(2030.) S. nigra, Hook. Fl. II., 149. 

 8- Caroliniana, Michx. PI. II., 226. 

 S. Houstoniana, Pursh, Fl. I., 614. 

 S. falcata, Pursh. Hook. Fl. II., 149. 

 (?) S. amUgm, Pursh, Fl. I., 617. 

 S. ligustrina, Michx. N. American Sylva, II., 212, 1819. 

 S. nigra, var. falcata, Gray, Man., 417, 1858. 



Not uncommon in low grounds along streams or lake margins. 

 Harris Cove, N.B. (Fowler's Oat.) About Quebec. (Mrs. Cleghom.) 

 Yicinity of Ottawa. {Fletcher Fl. Ott.) Common in low grounds at 

 Prescott, Ont. (Billings.) In the neighborhood of Hamilton, Ont. 

 (Logic.) Eich river flats at London, and on sandy soil, Pelee Point, 

 Essex Co., Ont. (Burgess.) Not uncommon on alluvium in river 

 valleys from Kingston westward, on the borders of marshes, Bay of 

 Quinte and many places along Lake Ontario. Moist places at Queen- 

 ston, both along the river and railway, also abundant at Port Colborne 

 and westward along both Lakes Erie and St. Clair. Small trees are not 

 uncommon in the Kaministiquia valley west of Lake Superior. 

 (Macoun.) Valley of Maple Creek, N.W.T. (Dawson & J, M. Macoun.) 



