1899] Report of the Botanical Section. 187 



pods triquctrous-ovoid, finely dotted, 4 to 5 lines long; late foli- 

 age nearly glabrous, but rather fleshy. 



Collected by Mr. J. M. Dickson near Port Flamboro, Ont., 

 May, 1898, and grown by D\ Greene and the writer. The grow- 

 ing plants are very easily distinguished from F. cuspidata to 

 which it is closely related. Included in this paper in order to 

 complete the enumeration of the Ontario species as far as they 

 are known. 



Ottaw.T, Dec. 1898. 



REPORT OF THE BOTANICAL SECTION, 1898. 



In the Botanical Branch there has been more than u-sual 

 activity during the past season. At all the sub-excursions, of 

 which there have been more than in any previous year, of the 

 Club's histor}', the followers of the botanical leaders have always 

 been by far the must numerous. Accounts of these sub-excursions 

 have an-eady appeared in THE Ottawa Naturalist, and need 

 not be referred to here. 



An unusual advantage to the Club during the past season 

 has b^en the large proportion of the meetings at which Prof. 

 Macoun has been able to be present. Unfortunately Mr. Robert 

 Whyte is still unable to take an active part in the field work of 

 the Club ; but he has been well represented by Miss Marion 

 Wh}te a member of the Council of the Club who has been a 

 constant attendant at the excursions throughout the season. 



Several additions have been made to the local flora during 

 the year. Since the completion of Prof. Macoun's " Cryptogamic 

 Flora of Ottawa" published in The OTTAWA Naturalist 

 eight species of lichens and six of mosses have been added by 

 him to the local list. In September and October Prof Macoun 

 collected over 600 species of fungi in the vicinity of Ottawa. 

 Of these, many were additions to the local flora, a few were new to 

 America though found in Europe and several were new to 

 science. Mr. Percy Saunders also made a special study of fungi 



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