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land, and in the neighborhood of Port Stanley, the following plants, 

 no less than eight of which also now for the first time find a 

 place in Canadian Flora. The coffee-tree, he tells me, was seen 

 reaching two feet in diameter. 



Viola cucu'. lata, Ait. var. palmata,Gr. Tbaspium tritbliatum, Gr. 

 Euonymus atropurpureus, Jacq. Thaspium barbinode, Nutt. 



Gymnocladus Canadensis, Lam. Cynthia Virginica, Don. 



Agrimonia parviflora, Ait. ChsBrophyllum procumbens.Crantz. 



Geum vernuin, T. & G. Tecoma radieans, Juss. 



Rosa setigera, Mx. Plantago cordata, Lam. 



Crataegus subvillosa, Scbrader. Prosartes lanuginosa, Don. 



Heucbera bispida, Pursb. Carex Steudelii, Kuutb. 



Carex Grayii, Carey. 

 — T. J. W. Burgess, M. D., London, Ontario, Canada. 



Some Alaska Ferns, with notes.— Dr. J. Schneck has kindly 

 placed in my hands his entire stock of duplicate ferns, among them 

 the following Alaskan species, a record of which may be interest- 

 ing. Thev were all collected by Mr. L. M. Turner during the 

 seasons of "1879-80-81. 



1. Ophioglossum vulgatum., L. Specimens exhibiting marked 

 variations in the shape of' the laminae, the most noticeable being a 

 broadly, triangular-ovate form with an abruptly acute apex. Spo- 

 rangia varying from 10 to 20, or more, in number. 



2. Botrychium boreale, Milde. Specimens showing nearly the 

 range of forms described by Angstrom (Botan. Notiser, 1866, and 

 quoted by Milde in Botrychiorum Monographia), viz: — era! a fan/, 

 intermedium and affine. As these, and the next specimens, have 

 furnished me with much new material for examination, I shall 

 have more to say of them hereafter in connection with their ver- 

 nation. 



3. Botrychium Lunaria, Swz. A large number of fine speci- 

 mens showing many forms running from the normal form (var. 

 normale, Roper) through var. sub-incisuni, Roper, and var. inci- 

 sum Milde, toward, though not quite reaching var. ovatum, Milde. 

 The collection furnishes two interesting examples of forked root- 

 stocks. In one specimen the rootstock had made three short 

 branches, two of which had developed buds and given rise each to 

 a perfect frond, thus forming a double-fronded plant. In the other, 

 and larger of the two specimens, the rootstock had divided 

 into two longer divisions each bearing a well-developed frond. 

 Examining the vernation in this specimen I found that the base, 

 of each stipe contained a perfect bud showing no variation from 

 the normal development. Milde (1. c.) described similar examples 

 in this species, and in B. simplex, and, as of rarer occurrence, in 

 the present species, and B. boreale, instances where the bud which 

 should not have developed until the next year had broken through 

 the base of the stipes and developed into a perfect frond so that two 

 individuals appeared close together from one rootstock in the same 

 season. 



