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W. Soott, the Science Master of the Normal School, who has not only 

 collected assiduously himself right through the season, but has delivered 

 a series of lectures in the Normal School, in which each student was 

 provided with a specimen of a fresh plant an innovation of a most 

 valuable character. Good results cannot but follow from this method 

 of teai^hincr. 



Professor JNlacoun still continues his unceasing labours with results 

 of incalculable value. His researches amongst the mosses may fairly 

 be said to have revolutionised our knowledge of these difficult plants. 

 In connection with Dr. Kindberg of Linkoping (Sweden), Mons. Cardot 

 of Steiny (France), and Prof. Yenturi of Nice (Italy), he is making a 

 systematic i-e-examination of all the Canadian Musci, with the remark- 

 able results that fully fifty species will be added to the North American 

 moss flora, over forty of which are new to science. Seven of these have 

 been found in this locality and are new to science. Two of these are 

 named with chai-acteristic names, i.e., Pijlaisia Selwijni, named in honor 

 of Dr. A. R. C. Selwyn, the Director of the Geological and Natural 

 Histoiy Sui'vey of Canada, who, although not himself specially a 

 botanist, has always given Prof. Macoun every opportunity' to use to 

 the best advantage his great talents in this line, for the benefit l)oth of 

 the Dominion of Canada and for the scientific world at large. Bryum 

 Ontariense, of interest from having been confounded for many years 

 with Bryuvi roseurn, is named in honor of our own fair province. 



An interesting re-discovery was made last spring in the form of a 

 parasitic fungus, which was found very efiective in materially diminish- 

 ing the numbers of one of our injurious cutworms f" Agrotii, fennica). 

 This fungus was named Emjyusa ( Entomophthora) virescens, by Mr, 

 Poland Thaxter, a high authority upon these forms. This species was 

 discovered at Ottawa in 1884, when it almost annihilated a remarkable 

 occurrence of the cutwoi ms mentioned. A well-known e.xample of 

 these fungi is the Empuea muscce, which causes the death of house flies 

 in autumn, when they may be found attached to walls or windows by 

 their probosces and surrounded by a white cloud of the spores of the 

 tungu.s wliich has destroyed them. As the new additions to the local 

 plants will appear in the Flora Oitawaensis now being published, it 

 would be useless to give a list of them here. The new species of 



