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Cystopteris fragilis, 

 Aspidium muuitiiin, 



Californicum, 



iS^ephrodium rigiduni, 

 Filix-ma;^, 



Petris aquiliua, 

 Pella^a mucronata, 



densa, 



andromedrefolia, 



Gy m n ogvam m e t riari gul avis, 

 ■\\"oodwardia radicaus, 



or only fifteen species ia all. Within the same distances of 



Montreal vre could muster nearly three times as many. 



Mrs. Lyell has folWed the "Synopsis Filicum" of Hooker and 



Baker in nomenclature and species limitation, and, in the fore-. 



going remark?, I have more or less closely followed her example. 



Notice of Fucus Serratus found in Pictou Harbour. 

 By Rev. A. F. Kemp, M.A.— On the 29th June, 1869, 1 had an 

 opportunity of examining the shores of the harbour of Pictou, 

 Nova Scotia, and was fortunate enough in finding very fine speci- 

 mens of Faciis serratus Linn. This plant is very common on 

 the rocky sea-shores of Europe, and specially so in the northern 

 parts of the British Islands. Harvey, in his Preface to the 

 Nereis Boreali- Americana, says that Fucus serratus has not yet 

 (1851) been detected in America. In the supplement to that 

 work (1858), he says : " I have received a small fragment of this 

 " common European plant, stated to have been found at Newbury- 

 " port, Mass, U.S. It is hardly probable that it is either con- 

 " fined to one locality, or even rare, wherever it occurs ; yet none 

 *' of my other correspondents have sent it, nor do I know 

 " the circumstances under which Captain Pike obtained it. I 

 " hope this notice may lead some one on the coast to investigate 

 '' the subject; for European botanists are yet uncertain whether 

 " F. serratus be really bona fide native of the American coast, or 

 " merely a stray waif accidentally cast ashore.'' I have myself 

 examined several points on the eastern coast of America where, 

 if anywhere, this plant might be expected to grow, but have 

 never seen a fragment of it. At Portland, and along the coast of 

 Maine, northward, the shore is highly favourable for the growth 

 of the larger fuci. At Peak's Island I found a peculiar analogue 

 of F. serratus, occupying very much its place, and having nearly 

 the same form^and habit, excepting the serratures of the margins. 

 It was very abundant on the outer shores of the islands in Casco 

 Bay, but seems very much to be confined to that locality. I did 

 not find it on the northern shores of the State around Eastport. 

 Harvey thinks the plant is Fucus anceps. It is as prolific and 



