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running from Billings Bridge to Dow's Swamp by both Mr. Fletcher 

 and Mr. J. M. Macoun. In a field near the same place Mr. Fletcher 

 also found this season large numbers of plan»^s of the yellow-flowered 

 form of Verbascum Blattaria, the Moth Mullein. This field he had 

 l>assed through several times the previous year at the same season, but 

 did not observe a specimen. Mr. R. H. Cowley also found a similar 

 occurrence near Skead's Mills on the Ottawa River. Mr. Scott found 

 several fine specimens of Goodyera pubescens, the Rattlesnake Plantain, 

 at Ironsides, and in Dow's Swamp Gypripediiim aridinum and Micros- 

 tylis monophyllos, two of our rarest orchids. Mr. Fletcher collected at 

 Rockcliffe true and very characteristic specimens ot the Glaucous 

 Meadow Grass, Poa ciesia. This resembles somewhat Poa compressa, 

 the Canada Blue Grass, but the whole plant is covered with a bluish 

 white and conspicuous bloom, and the stems are round instead of 

 flattened. The following introduced plants have been collected in the 

 neighbourhood of the city by Mr. W. Scott : 



Sisymbrium Sophia. A fine plant of this very distinct crucifer was 

 found on made ground near the artificial lake on Major's Hill Park. 



Sisymbrium Al'iaria. A colony of this European plant has 

 established itself and spread considerably during the last few years in 

 Beechwood. 



North-West Prairie Flowers. An interesting instance of western 

 plants having become well established is found near Capt. Cowley's 

 house at Skead's Mills, on the banks of the Ottawa, where the following 

 plants were found by Mr. R. H. Cowley : 



Gnndelia squarrosa, in large numbers, extending for about an acre 

 in all directions from a deserted house. 



Lepachys columnaris, a handsome composite of a distinctly west- 

 ern type, in almost as great abundance as the above. 



Erysimum parviflotitm. Several specimens were collected by 

 Mr. Scott on the Canadian Pacific Railway bank near the Union 

 siation and submitted to Prof. Macoun. 



Conium maculatum. — To the north of Beechwood Cemetery and 

 between it and the lake hundreds of specimens of this intensely poison- 

 ous plant were found growing in great luxuriance. This is the true 

 Poison Hemlock, and it would be well for all members of the Club to 



