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[Jan. 



and (I believe) Prof. Fernald, of Harvard, both inclined to the 

 view that it was W. scopulina. Accordingly I sent the plant 

 to Prof. Maxon, of the Smithsonian Institution, and in due 

 course heard from him that the plant was undoubtedly Woodsia 

 scopulina, and this ha»now been corroborated at Harvard. 



By way of summary. The list of our finds in 1 9 10 amounted 

 to 3 7, but since then two varieties have been given specific im- 

 portance, viz., Aspidium bootii and Botrychium o^rdiquum; so our 

 list was virtually 39. Add Pellaea densa from near Durham, and 

 the Parsley Fern from Manitoulin, and you have 41. The six 

 new species added to our list this season make a total of 47, 

 and all these in old Ontario — I mean from Detroit in the west 

 to Montreal in the east — and for northern marches, the French 

 River, Lake Nipissing, and the Mattawan. In New Ontario, 

 between the Lake of the Woods, James Bay and Lake Abitibi, 

 some seven more species are known to occur, and of these, it 

 seems to me quite likely that two or three at least may be dis- 

 covered by some happy enthusiast nestling among the thousand- 

 and-one yet unsearched nooks and crannies this side of North 

 Bay. I will end our ramble by listing the fern-flora of the 

 Province : — 



