1899] Botanical Notes. tj 



cm. lono^ : heads elliptic-lanceolate, about i cm. long, more 

 densely flowered than in E. intermedia, the ovate-lanceolate or 

 oblong-lanceolate acutish or blunt scales dark brown : achene 

 much compressed, obscurely triangular in cross-section, obovate^ 

 less elongated than that of E. intermedia ; the deltoid-conical 

 tubercle nearly as broad and one-half as high as the body of the 

 achene. J. M. M. 



* Proceeding of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences Vol. X\.\I\', 

 p. 487. 



LvcoPODir.M INUNDATUM — On the wet bank near the 

 junction of the Canada Atlantic Railway and the Rockland 

 Branch at South Indian, May 9th, 1899. An addition to the 

 local flora and not before recorded in Eastern Ontario. J. M. 



Symplocarpus FtETlDUS. — Abundant in a swamp about 

 one mile from Osgoode. Collected by Mr. R. H. Cowley early 

 in May. Not before collected in the Ottawa District. 



Trillium grandiflorum. — On May 13th, Mrs. A. E. 

 Barlow collected a monstrosity of this species with four leaves^ 

 four sepals, four petals, eight stamens and four pistils. Two 

 stems rose from the one rootstalk, each bearing exceptionally 

 large flowers with the above characters). The plant is preserved 

 in the herbarium of the Geological Survey, 



A GUIDE TO WILD FLOWERS. 



While in England almost every educated man and woman 

 and nearly every child outside large cities knows the names of 

 the common flowers of wood and roadside, meadow and field, in 

 America such knowledge has been until very lately compar- 

 itively rare. A dozen or so of spring species are familiar to 

 everyone and a like number of the more conspicuous and 

 common summer flowers are pretty well known, but a general 

 acquaintance with even two or three hundred species is quite 

 enough to secure from the multitude the title of " botanist." 

 There are many reasons for this lamentable ignorance but chief 

 among them has been the lack of popular books on flowers. An 



