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mosses discovered in tliis locality by Prof. Macoun are deacribed below 

 and appended to this report. Tiie growing for observation and study 

 of rare plants from other parts of the Dominion has been continued by 

 the leaders, and as the Botanic Garden at the Experimental Farm is to 

 be begun in the spring, the leaders beg to urge upon the members of 

 the club the importance of assisting in the collection of native plants 

 from this locality. A special feature of the garden is to be the collection 

 and cultivation of as complete a series of Canadian plants as possible, 

 and they have nc doubt that important botanical results will follow 

 this opportunity for botanists to study in a state of nature and in large 

 numbers many of our rare and local plants. Already large collections 

 of seeds have been sent in by Prof. Macoun and Dr. Dawson, of the 

 Geological Surve}', and donations from many others have been received 

 from remote and inaccessible localities. There is much that our local 

 botanists can do in this line to assist this important work, which will 

 give another opportunity for showing that the Ottawa Field-Naturalists 

 Club is a practical and useful organization. la conclusion, the leaders 

 have to express their great indebtedness to tlie president, Mr. R. B. 

 Whyte, tor his unceasing labours on behalf of tlie branch. This has 

 been particularly the case with regard to the Saturday afternoon sub- 

 excui'sions, nearly all of which he attended, and when the leaders, as 

 was frequently the case, were absent, he undertook the direction of the 

 party and delivered the elementary lectures which form so important a 



feature of tliese out-door classes. 



James Fletcher. ) r i 

 TT T> o HT r\ I J-ieaders. 



H. B. Small, M.D. j 



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DESCBIPTIONS OF NEW SPECIES OF MOSSES FOUND AT 



OTTAWA. 



By Nils Conrad Kindberg, Ph. D. (Linkoping, Sweden.) 

 DiCRANUM SCOPARIFORME. Kindb. N. Sf). 



Intermediate between B. scojKirlum and D. fuscescens. Dioecious. 

 Leaves greenish-yellow, flexuous, lanceolate, subulate wiih a short 

 and fiat subula ; margins nearly flat or slightly incurved, densely 

 and sharply serrate to | ; cell-walls not interrupted by pores ; 

 upper cells oblong-oval, lower not much narrower, inner basa 

 light brown ; costa thick, percurrent with two serrate ridges at 



