1864.] laavson's botanical notes. 3 



margin of Mill-Creek, a few Imndred yards below the village of 

 Odessa, which is some thirteen or fourteen miles from Kingston, 

 O. W. This is the Lycopodlum apoduin, Linn., Pursh, etc., 

 SslaglneUa apus, Gri*ay, Eaton, etc. I have it from Schooley's 

 Mountain, (Mr. A. 0. Brodie,) but it is rare in the United States. 

 Being a minute moss-like species, it may be sometimes over- 

 looked. It is admirably adapted for cultivation in a Ward's 

 case, as it covers the soil with a very dense carpet of a most 

 beautiful light green hue. 



5. Gulf-Weed at Cape Sable. — The Nova Scotia news- 

 papers contain accounts of great quantities of the gulf-weed 

 (Sargassum hacclferum) having been thrown upon the shore 

 at Cape Sable, by the gales of December, 1863 ; the Gulf-stream, 

 it is alleged, being much nearer the land than usual. 



6. PoA LAXA, Haenke. — This rave alpine grass was found 

 on the White Mountains by Principal Dawson, to whom lam in- 

 debted for specimens. 



Y. Flora of Anticosti and the Mingan Islands. — Mr. A. 



E. Verrill has published in the Boston Natural History Society's 



Proceedings a list of the plants collected at Anticosti and the 



Mingan Islands, by himself, Mr. A. Hyatt, and Mr. N. S. Shaler, 



who formed a party from the Museum of Comparative Zoology 



for the investigation of the geology, etc., of Anticosti, in 1861. 



The list contains 209 named species of flowering plants. I 



note some of the more interesting: Anemone /)ar?;(/?ora, S. W. 



Point ; Thalictrum aljyinum, Ranunculus Cymhalaria ; Dryas 



integrlfolia, Yahl., Mingan, and Anticosti, abundant; (i). Brum- 



mondii, attributed to Anticosti by Pursh was not met with ;) Ruhus 



ChamcemoruSj abundant; R, arcticus ; Saxifraga Grcenlandica, 



L., very abundant at Mingan Islands. A very large number of 



specimens of this species collected at Mingan, proves, according to 



Prof. Gray, that S. Groenlandica, S. ccespitosa, L., and S. exarata, 



Vill., are only forms of one species; S. aizoides, ]'cirge variety, 



abundant at Anticosti, about limestone cliffs ; S. aizoon, Niapisca 



Island ; Ligusticum Scolicum ; Erigeron acre, {^E. alpinum, 



Hook.,) narrow-leaved form, abundant on grassy banks near the 



mouth of Jupiter River ; Rhodora Canadensis, L. ; Loiseleuria 



procumbenSj Prmvila farinosa, and P. Mislassinica ; Mertensia 



maritima, a fern with glabrous leaves, was occasionally met 



with; Taxus Canadensis ; Calypso borealis ; Hierochloa borealis, 



