APPENDIX A. — REPORT ON BOTANY, 6& 



REPORT OX BOTANY. 



Siuce the soniewliat large list of plants recorded in 

 the Bulletin of 1893 was published, very few plants have 

 been found that are new to the province. The researches 

 of Mr. jSI. L. Fernald, of Cambridge, Mass., in Northern 

 Maine and Xew Brunswick have brought to notice some 

 plants new to the province. Others, which Mr. Fernald 

 found only in ISTorthern Maine, may be looked for in New 

 Brunswick. ]Mr. Fernald suggests that New Brunswick 

 botanists are in a place to be of great service to him in 

 his Maine work, particularly when they note (as he has 

 done) things on " the other side of the. line."' Our New 

 Brunswick botanists will, no doubt, readily accept this 

 otter of reciprocity, if opportunity should occur. Among 

 the interesting plants discovered by Mr. Fernald are the 

 two varieties of uViiphrcr advena ; Oxytropis Lamberti, 

 Pursli, var. sericea, at Van Buren, Me., ("its first appear- 

 ance east of ^Montana"); Pyrus sainbacifolia, "growing 

 with and as common as Americava ; Myriophylliun 

 alfernifoh'uni, M. verHrillatuni, 31. ainbigaum^ 31. ienel- 

 lum ; Epilobiam (uhiiocaulon ; Potamogeton nitens ("a 

 very rare plant, having been found but once before in 

 America, should be looked for about Edmundston,") 

 Carer interior; Panicurn lutidum ; Glyceria grandis ; 

 Equisetam littorale, Woodsia obtusa (Van Buren). 



Mr. A'room reports Lobelia cardinalis on south branch 

 of Oroniocto, near Fredericton Junction — farther east 

 than befoi'c noticed. 



