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 FLORA OTTAWAENSIS. 



By JAMiiS Fletcher, F, 1\. S. C, F. L. S. 



It is now eiglit years since my fii-sfc list of the plants of tlais 

 district was prepared for the memberd of the club. This was merely a 

 bare list of the names of 810 species collected by the writer during the 

 summer of 1870. "This district" was then understood to mean a 

 radius of about twelve miles from the City of Ottawa, and was defined 

 as the tountry lying between the following points : Meech's Lake in 

 the Gl elsea Mountains on the one side, and the Mer Bleue on the other. 

 Down tlie Ottawa River, East Templeton and Green's Oreek were 

 include), and up the livei-, Britannia and the islands al>ove Aylmer. 

 Latterly, however, l)y gent-ral consent of the botanists of the club, this 

 radius has been extended to about oO miles, so as to include Uasselinan 

 on the one side, and Waketield on Uie other ; and up the river as far as 

 the Chats Rapids and down to Buckingham. 



Previous to the a[)pearauce of the above-mentioned list, there had 

 been printed by the Ottawa Natural History Society a " List of plants 

 collected by Mr. B. Billings in the vicinity of the City of Ottawa 

 durinty the summer of 180G." This contained the names of 404 species, 

 with the dates of their intlorescenco, which appear in the present 1 st 



marked (B). 



The following collections had alo been made previous to 1879 : 

 By Mr. B. Billings, (18GG-7) which is now in the museum of the 

 Ottawa Literary and Scientific Society ; by Mr. A. H. Moore, an 

 energetic collector, and one who added largely to our knowledge of the 

 flora of the vicinity (1870-78). Through the generosity of the last 

 named gentleman, this collection now forms part of my own herbarium ; 

 by Mr. Robert Whyte and Dr. H. B. Small, who began to collect about 

 1875, and arc still active members of the Botanical Branch of the 

 Club. The present list contains every sp scios up to this time 

 found in the district and identified with certainty ; further additions 

 will be published annually, as tbey are recorded. It has been prepared 

 at the request of the Council, more especially as an aid for tliose 

 beginning to study our flora. 



