THE 



CANADIAN NATURALIST. 



SECOND SERIES. 



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BOTANICAL SCIENCE— RECORD OF PROGRESS:. 



By George Lawson, LL.D., Professor of Chemistry, Dalhoiisie College^ 



Halifax, Nova Scotia. 



1. Flora of Canada. — Canadian botanists will be pleased to- 

 learn that the series of " Colonial Flora-^," now being published 

 under authority of the Home Government, is rapidly proo-ressino- - 

 and that Sir William Hooker is now desirous of receivins; con. 

 tributions to the projected Flora of Canada and other British 

 American Provinces, of which Dr. Joseph Hooker is to be the 

 author. As to the nature of materials desired, it may be stated 

 generally that information respecting the occurrence in Canada 

 of plants not hitherto recorded as Canadian, when accompanied 

 by authenticated specimens, will be most useful. In a letter from' 

 Sir William, he observes : " Our own materials [at Kew] are very 

 ample for the object in question; nevertheless I am far from dis- 

 couraging any from sending to us well-prepared specimens, among 

 which it is probable we should find some new things, and more 

 still which would be useful as showing the geographical distribution, 

 of species. Most of all we desire, as far as Canada is concerned, 

 that specimens be collected largely in the most southern districts^ 

 as there would probably be found United States species not yet 

 recorded as Canadian. The oaks, the pines, and in general the 

 forest-trees and shrubs, particularly of the South, require a careful 

 study. You define clearly the plants we most desire to have, viz., 



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