122 The Ottawa Naturalist. [September 



Officers of the Botanical Club of Canada. 



Elected on the 24th of June, 1904, at a meetings of the Royal 

 Society of Canada in St. John, New Brunswick. 



Honorary President : — ^John Macoun, M.A., F.L.S., Ottawa, 

 Ontario. 



President: — Georg^e U. Hay, D. Sc St. John, New Bruns- 

 wick. 



General Secretary-Treasurer: — A. H. MacKay, LL D., Hali- 

 fax, Nova Scotia. 



Secretaries for the Provinces. 



Nova Scotia : — Principal E, J. Lay, Amherst. 



New Brunswick : — James Vroom, Esq., St. Stephen. 



Prince Edward Island : — John MacSwain, Esq., Charlotte- 

 town. 



Quebec : — Rev. Robert Campbell, M.A,, D.D., Montreal. 



Ontario: — James Fletcher, LL. D,, Ottawa. 



Manitoba : — Rev. W. A. Burman, B.D., Winnipeg. 



Assiniboia : — Thomas R. Donnelly, Esq., Pheasant Forks. 



North-west Provinces and Territories generally : — T. N. 

 Willing, Esq., Regina. 



Alberta : — Percy B. Gregson, Esq., Blackfalds. 



Saskatchewan : — Rev. C. W. Bryden, B.A., Willoughby. 



British Columbia (mainland) : — J. K. Henry, B.A., High 

 School, Vancouver. 



Vancouver Island, B.C. : — A. J. Pineo, B.A., High School, 



Victoria. J- E- 



GIANT PUFFBALL — Lycoperdoti giganteum. 



Mr. A. H. Taylor, of the Customs Department, Ottawa, 

 brought into my office t^is morning a fine example of the edible 

 giant puflFball, Lycoperdon giganteum. 



This specimen was obtained by Mr. Taylor on his property on 

 Rideau street, Ottawa, where it had come up after the last rain- 

 storm. It measures forty and a half inches in circumference one 

 way and thirty-eight inches in the vertical diameter. 



The colour is of an almost snow-white brilliancy and the sur- 

 face for the most part smooth with ' 'low and inconspicuous 

 wrinkles due to fissuring in the cortex'^' H5uter covering. 



Two very large examples of this species were also observed 

 last week on the Ottawa Golf Club links on the Aylmer road, the 

 circumference of one according to the statement given me being 

 fifty-nine inches. 



The specimen presented by Mr. Taylor is now deposited in the 

 Botanical Collection of the National Museum on Sussex street. 



H. M. Ami. 

 Geological Survey Office, 



Ottawa, Canada. 



