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the author of many valuable and entertaining works upon the history 

 of pioneer life and the wild plants of Canada. This collection com- 

 prises about thirty species collected during the past summer near 

 Lakefield, on the islands of Stony Lake, and along the shores of the 

 Otonabee. This remarkable and untiring lover of nature is now in her 

 ninety-third year ; but her ardour seems to be still unabated, although 

 she naively writes : 



" I was only able to go over the more important islands, not being 

 quite as strong for climbing the rugged dangerous rocks as formerly." 



Worth) of note in this collection are Deschampsiq flexuosa from 

 Hurricane Point and Fairy Lake, Panicum xanthophysum from the 

 islands of Minni-wa-wa, Carex sychnocephala ,with Carex tribuloides, from 

 the islands in Stony Lake. 



We are also pleased to announce that Mrs. Traill is just about to 

 issue another of her charming works on natural history under the attrac- 

 tive title of " Pearls and Pebbles," which we feel sure will be read with 

 pleasure and profit by many of her fellow members of this club. J. F. 



Cuscuta epithymum, var. trifolii. About the first of October 

 of this year, I found this plant in a clover field belonging to Mr. Wm. 

 Finley, at Ingleside, about 10 miles from St. John, N.B. Only a 

 small patch of the field was infested with the parasite (a space not 

 more than ten feet square), and this near the side of a road. So thick 

 was it, however, that not only the clover stems, ( Trifolium pratense ), but 

 every available stalk, even to the blades of grass, were thickly twined 

 with it. I pointed out to Mr. Finley the dangerous nature of the parasite 

 (the first appearance so far as I am aware in the Province of New 

 Brunswick), and he has since ploughed it under. 



St. John, Oct. 22, 1894. G. U. Hay. 



An Arboretum for St. John, N.B. In the St. John, N.B., G/obe, 

 under date Oct. 20, 1894, appears a letter by Mr. G. U. Hay,F.R.S.C., 

 under the above heading. In this letter it is stated that the local 

 Horticultural Association has been most successful during the past two 

 years in decorating the public squares and, further, that land has been 

 purchased for a public park. Mr. Hay then makes the following valu- 



