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western part of Kings County and the adjoining eastern part of 
Annapolis County, in this Province. It was particularly noticed 
between the railway stations of Bridgetown and Aylesford, on 
the Windsor and Annapolis Railway, and will readily catch the 
eye of every botanical traveler over the line. 
Will Mr. Redfield kindly say whether it was the larger or 
smaller petalled variety of Gnothera biennis that was observed 
by him, and noted in his Island Flora (p. 246). I have noticed 
the latter on our shores, the former inland in one or two places. 
_Mr. Safford’s observations on the time of fruiting of Bux- 
baumia aphylla are quite in accordance with those made on the 
Sidlaw Hills in Scotland, and in Nova Scotia, where it is found 
in good condition only in spring-time. GEORGE LAWSON. 
Euphrasia officinalis, Vu, is abundant at St. John and St. 
Andrews, N. B., and, though I have no notes of it elsewhere, I 
think I have seen it at other seaports on the Bay of Fundy. It 
is found by Prof. Fowler at Bathurst, in the extreme north of 
the province, where it is also abundant. Though regarded here 
as a native, its being most frequent near the older settlements 
would seem to favor the opinion that it has been introduced. 
JAMES VRooM, St. Stephens, N. B. 
[Alchemilla vulgaris was found at Digby, on the outskirts of 
the town in August, 1879, on the road toward “ the Joggins.” 
The locality for Schizea at Grand Lake was near the “ civilized 
end of it” where the railroad runs. There is an island at this 
end and there was either a saw-mill or tannery. At a point on 
the shore between the outlet of a stream carrying saw-dust from 
the above and a line drawn from the eastern end of the island to 
the shore, on a hummock six inches above the stony beach, 
growing among the roots of Osmunda regalis and Pogonia ophio- 
glossoides, there were found a few small plants of this rare fern, 
with the dry brown fronds of the previous year still attached. In 
a letter from A. H. McKay, dated September roth, 1881, he 
says: ‘‘ The margin of the Lake had been overrun by fires last 
fall and I fear the plants are destroyed,” 
: He made a careful 
search for it at that time.—ED.] 
