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NEW SPECIES OF CANADIAN VIOLETS. 



We are pleased to announce for our next issue a paper on 

 some ne ./ species of violets, which will be hailed with great satis- 

 faction by Canadian botanists. This paper is now being prepared 

 by Mr. James M. Macoun, Assistant Botanist of the Geological 

 Survey Department, ana is the result of a critical study of the 

 whole group of several species, which up to the present time have 

 passed under the name of Viola cucullata, Ait. In the last num- 

 ber of " Pittonia" (24th Sept., 1898), the editor, Dr. Greene, who 

 has described the new species, speaks in the following compli- 

 mentary terms of Mr. Macoun's careful work : — 



" Whatever of value these notes may contain is largely, if not 

 chiefly, due to abundant living specimens and very copious and 

 intelligently made field-notes, which have been forwarded to me 

 by Mr. Macoun, whose modesty alone seems to have stood in 

 the way of his publishing them himself ; for all the new species 

 here described were so carefully studied by him, that indepen- 

 dently of my own opinion, he regarded them as undescribed." 



Mr. Macoun has grown all of the species referred to, and 

 studied them at every stage of their growth. We hope to publish 

 with this paper figures illustrating the salient characters by 

 which they may be recognized. 



Excursion No. 2 to Chats Falls. 



Notwithstanding the threatening aspect of the weather a 

 very large number attended the excursion to the beautiful Chats 

 rapids of the Upper Ottawa on June 25th. The route taken 

 was by electric cars to Aylmer and thence by the comfortable 

 steamer G. B. Green to the falls. Unfortunately owing to the 

 lowness of the water in the Ottawa, it was impossible to land at 

 our original destination, Fitzroy Harbour. The party accord- 

 ingly disembarked at Moore's wharf some two miles below the 

 above point. As this was a new district it was full of interest to 

 our naturalists, and the members of the Camera Club, many of 

 whom we were pleased to have with us on the expedition, found 



