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of a specimen of Jtmijienis Sabina procumbeiis (creeping juniper). 
It was rooted in a layer of black soil and when taken out showed 
that it had lain flat on the ground. Two of the roots, including the 
bark, measured 3^ and 3^ inches in diameter respectively, while 
the crown, where the branches began to spread was over seventeen 
inches in circumference or nearly six inches in diameter." Quite 
common on the old land, J. Macoun (C. no. 22,607); trailing on the 
sand dunes, Whalepost, //. St. John, nos. 1,116 and 1,117 (H). 
Fl., Fr. — August and September. 
[J. PROCT'MBEXS recorded by J. Mnroun (M. p. 218A) is probably 
J. horizontali,s.] 
[J. SABiXA PROCUMBENS recorded by J. Mnroun (M. p. 21 7A) is 
J. horizotitalis.] 
TYPHACEAE. 
Typha latifolia L. Local, growing only by the border of the fresh 
ponds at the east end of Wallace Lake, ./. Macoun; and swampy 
edge of fresh-water pond near Life Saving Station No. 3, //. St. John, 
no. 1,118 (H). 
Fr. — September. 
SPARGANIACEAE. 
Sparganium angustifolium Michx. Common in the perma- 
nent fresh-water ponds. ./. Macoun (C. nos. 22,637 and 22,637a); 
//. St. Johv, nos. 1,119 and 1,120 (H). 
Fl. — July and August. Fr. — August and September. 
[S. SIMPLEX Huds. of ./. Macoun is N. angusiifoliuni.] 
POTAMOGETONACEAE. 
Potamogeton polygonifolius Pourrct. Abundant in the fresh- 
water ponds. It will grow even in ponds that dry up for a part of 
the summer, but it probal)ly does not fruit in these except in a wet 
season. In such exsiccated ponds the ])!;uit appi-ars as a tight pros- 
trate rosette of apparently sessile leaves. ./. Macoun (C. no. 22,005) 
—for the first notice of this, see A. Bennett, Journal of Botany, xxx. 
198 (1901). //. .S7. John, nos. I.IL'I and 1.122 (II). 
Fr. — August and September. 
P. epihydrus Haf. Very connnon in the fri>sh i)onds. ./. Ma- 
coim (C. no. 22,07:0; //. St. John, no. 1,123 (IIV 
FJ. — July and .\ugust. /■';•. — August and St-ptcmber. 
