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flowers and fruits are situate at the axils of the leaves, and this, 

 combined with the stout stems, makes it difficult to produce good 

 herbarium specimens. 



Viburnum pubescens (Ait.) Pursh. Downy Arrow-wood. 



Rocky open woods, top of King's Mt, in fruit July 25, 1909. 



Lobelia spicata Lam. Pale Spiked Lobelia. 



Several examples found growing in hay-field in Beaver 

 Meadow, Hull, July 14, 1905, and a few in a hayfield near the 

 railway station at Chelsea, July 5, 1908. Extinct in both 

 habitats through subsequent cultivation. 



Lobellia Dortmanna L. Water Lobelia. 



Taken by Fletcher in Mud Bay, Meech Lake, but searched 

 for there unsuccessfully for several years, failure to find the 

 plant being probably due to its not being in flower and still 

 below the surface of the water. On August 7, 1912, I found 

 this plant growing profusely, in full flower, in water two to three 

 feet deep with gravelly bottom, in the Forks Lake, a few miles 

 from Sydney, N.S. 



Eupatorium perfoliatum L. Thoroughwort. " Boneset. 



Examples of this common boneset were found August 7, 

 1905, growing along a ditch at Kirk's Ferry, with whorls of three 

 connate perfoliate leaves in place of the usual two opposite ones. 

 The extra leaf adds much to the symmetry and beauty of the 

 specimens. Other examples of the same triperfoliate form have 

 since been observed on several occasions in swampy ground 

 nearer Chelsea. 



Solidago latifolia L. Zigzag, or Broad-leafed Goldenrod. 



This species appears to be rare and has been found only in 

 a wet cedar wood near Hull, between the Aylmer road and the 

 river, September 16 and 28, 1905. The broad sharply saw- 

 toothed leaves and the racemose spikelets of flowers arising from 

 the leaf axils of several terminal inches of the stem make this a 

 handsome goldenrod. 



Antennaria fallax Greene. Everlasting. Pussy's Toes. 



This species is not given in the Flora Ottawaensis or in 

 Macoun's Catalogue of Canadian Plants, but I have a specimen 

 collected by Fletcher at Rockcliffe, June 11, 1904. It seems to 

 be well established on the top of King's Mt., near the signal 

 station. Possibly this is the species recorded as plantaginifolia 

 in the Flora Ottawaensis. 



Heliantkus divaricatus L. Rough, or Woodland Sunflower. 



Under the record of H. annuus, as an escape from cultiva- 

 tion, Fletcher says, "It is rather remarkable that we have so far 

 found none of the native Helianthi wild in this locality." This 

 absence was often discussed by us because we had received, in 



