t4 The Ottawa Naturalist. [April 



NATURAL HISTORY IN YUKON TERRITORY. 



A letter has been received from Mr. J. B. Tyrrell, now living 

 in Dawson City but formerly of Ottawa, and who has published 

 several very valuable papers in The Ottawa Naturalist, stating 

 that Mr. William Ogilvie and some of the other residents of 

 Dawson are making an effort to start a Yukon Museum in 

 which all the natural products of the country are tobe repre- 

 sented: — rocks, minerals, plants, animals, birds, insects, etc. 

 The local Government is much interested in the undertaking, and 

 a building has been promised for this spring. 



Mr. Tyrrell has been chosen as curator for the time being, 

 and there is no one in the Yukon so well fitted to fill this post. 

 Mr. Tyrrell's long experience as a traveller and collector, and in 

 the Museum while on the staff of the Geological Survey, will 

 enable him to do most valuable service in organizing and starting 

 the work at the outset in a systematic and useful manner. 



J. F. 



BOTANICAL NOTES. 



Rattlesnake Plantains. Goodyera repens^ supposed to be 

 a common plant in the vicinity of Ottawa, is not represented 

 among the specimens so named which I have seen. G. tesselata, 

 G. repens var. ophioides and G. piib3scens have all been collected 

 within the area covered by the Club's work. The true 

 G. repens is a northern species and may yet be found in the 

 Gatineau Valley. G. Mensiesii may also be found here as it has 

 been collected in New Brunswick, Quebec and Western Ontario. 

 A revision of this genus was published in Rhodora, Vol. I, No. i. 



Aster vimineus. We have in the vicinity of Ottawa both 



A. vinimetts and the variety saxatiLis, Fernald. The variety is a 



slender plant and easily separated from the species by its stiff, 



ascending branches terminated by a solitary head. It has been 



collected art Paueian Falls and Casselman. 



j^W^^X J. M.M. 



