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Silene Douglasii, Hook. Bocky Mountains (1500 feet), Aug. 18, '74, in flower.

Stellaria longifolia, Muhl. Dufferin (damp thicket), June 12, '73, in flower.

MALVACEAE .

Malvmtrum coccineum, Gray. Long River (open prairie), June 25, ’73, in flower.Near Wood End (dry open prairie), June 12, first blossoms. Wood kind, June18, (open prairie), in flower. Long River is about the eastern limit of thisplant, on lat. 49°. It is common westward, especially on dry plains.

Sphreralcea acerifolia, Nutt. Foot Hills of Rocky Mts. , (thicket) Aug. 8, ’74, inflower.

LINACMS.

Litium perenne, L. Common from the Red R. prairie westward, growing on theopen plains, lint especially in sheltered hollows and along river banks, flower-ing in June.

Linum rigidum, Pursh. Milk River i sheltered valley), July 21,’74. First branchMilk River (bottom land), Aug. 5, ’74, 5 to 6 inches high. Both in flower. Thisplant also noticed on dry upland prairie, near Wood Mt., but very rarely. Itthere only attained a height of 1 to 2 inches, and sometimes showed but asingle terminal flower.

OXALIDACEAE.

Oxalis stricta , L. Dufferin, June 10, ’73, in flower.

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GERANIACEJS.

Geranium Richardsonii , Fiseli & Meyer, (G. albiflorum , Hook.) Foot hills of Rocky Mts . Aug. 7, '74, in flower, but with ripe seed also. White variety.Geranium Vremonlii, Torr. Wood Mt. .in sheltered valleys), June 23, in flower.Abundant. Also growing with the last in great abundance on the Foothills; the greater part of the flowers had fallen in the first week of Aug.The roots of this plant, or the last, or both, are used by the Indians as aremedy for diarrhoea.

Geranium carolineanum, L. Winnipeg and N. W. Angle Rd. July 3, ’73 ; in flower.Geranium, Sp. I. thicket, Turtle Mountain. July 25, ’73 ; in flower.

BALSAMINACEJ.;.

Impatiens fulva, Nutt. Lake of the Woods . (Swamp.) August 2, '73 ; in flower.

ANACARDIACEyE.

* Rhus glabra, L. Lake of the Woods. July 6, '73.

Rhus trilobata, Nutt. ( Rhus aromatica, Gray). Bad Lands south of Wood Moun-tain. June 29,’74. Berries nearly ripe. Also observed as far east as Pyra-mid Creek. Grows only on dry barren hill-sides. Few specimens of thisplant were seen; and latitude 49° is probably about its northern limit.

Rhus toxicodendron, L. Dufferin. (Thicket). June 21, '73—in flower.

VITACEvE.

Ampelopsis quingtiefolia, Mx. Lake of the Woods . July 19, ’73—just flowering.Vitis cordifolia, Mx. Dufferin, June 18, ’73, in flower.

EHAMNACE^E.

Ceanothus velutinus, Dougl. (Var. lieoigalus, F. & G.= C. Isevigatus, Hook.)

Kootanie Pass, a shrub about 3 feet high.

Rhamnus alnifolius , L’Her. Lake of the Woods , Aug. 7, ’73. Kootanie Pass, Aug.14, ’74. Both in fruit.