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Corallorhiza Striata, Lindl. Several plants of this beautiful 

 orchid were collected last spring at Beechwood, and in the woods at the 

 back of Rideau Hall. The first specimen was found by the Hon. 

 Archie Gordon. At the meeting of the Ottawa Electoral District 

 Agricultural Society, on June 5th, a bunch of the flowers was exhibited 

 which had been gathered from these woods by Master Sy mines. 

 The species is very rare in this locality having been found but once 

 previously in the same wood. J. F. 



Podostemon ceratophyllus, Michx. One of the most interest- 

 ing additions to our local flora, as well as to that of the Dominion, was 

 made last August by Professor Macoun, in the discovery of large beds 

 of the interesting River Weed. It was found growing on the bottom and 

 creeping over the surface of the rocks in the rapids of Brigham's Creek, 

 Hull, about 100 yards below the axe factory, and also further down the 

 stream towards the Ottawa River. The description in Gray's Manual is 

 an excellent one. There is only one species of the genus in Canada, 

 which is a small ruddy or olivaceous plant of firm texture resembling a 

 moss or sea-weed, which has no real roots, but is tenaciously attached 

 to the bottom, loose stones, or other objects in the water, by fleshy 

 disks. The leaves are rigid, dilated into a sheathing base with pointed 

 stipules and above mostly forked into about 3 thread-like or linear lobes 

 which are again divided once or twice. The flowers are very interesting, 

 they are nearly sessile in a tubular sack-like involucre, and consist of two 

 stamens, of which the filaments are united below, two sterile filaments, 

 one on each side, and a stalked ovary which bears two awl-shaped stigmas. 

 Flowers solitary and very numerous. The capsules are pedicellate, oval, 

 8 ribbed, 2-celled, 2-valved, seeds minute, very numerous on a thick 

 persistent central placenta. J. F. 



Phragmites Communis, Trin. Specimens of this grass have been 

 sent in by Mr. A. M. Campbell, of Perth, Ont., vvho was much struck 

 with their beauty. He writes as follows : " It is from the shores of 

 VVicksteed Lake in the Temiscaming district. The Indian name for 

 Wicksteed Lake is Shabasagi Lake, (river coming out on a point) and 

 on the point where the inlet enters the lake grows this tall grass with its 

 pampas-like plumes. I first saw this grass there last year, when we were 

 surveying that lake. I also saw it in 18S8 on the La vase River, the 



