XLIV ROYAL SOCIETY OF CANADA 



III.— From The Botanical Club of Canada (f..r the year, May 20th, 1898, 

 to May 20th, 1899), through Dr. Fletcher, F.K.S.C. 



Reverend Arthur C. Waghorne, Bay of Islands, Newfoundland, has 

 bc-en continuing his investigation of the flora of the island, and of the 

 neighbouring coast of Labrador. Of the flowering plants and the higher 

 cryptogams he has distributed 573 named species, 163 being Labrador 

 plants. Of the mosses he has distributed nearly 625 species, 225 being 

 from Labrador. Of the lichens, 476 species, of which 400 were from 

 Labrador. Of fungi, he has at the latest date of report about 400 species. 

 Among these are many species new to science. Among the phanerogam? 

 he reports Fragaria Terrœ-Novœ, Trelease. The third part of his 

 " Flora of Newfoundland, Labrador and St. Pierre et Miquelon," No. 265 

 to No. 538, is published in Volume IX., Part 4, of the Transactions of 

 the "Nova Scotia Institute of Science, Session of 1897-8." His dis- 

 covery of Bartonia iodanâra, Eobinson, at Grand Lake, Newfoundland, 

 was accidentally omitted from this list. 



From Prince Edward Island one report of phenological obser\'ations 

 has been received. The Natural History Society of the island was resus- 

 citated during the year. Plants new to the published flora of the island 

 were collected as follows : By L. W. Watson, M.A., thirty-four, includ- 

 ing Viola Watsoni, Greene ; by Rev. J. W. Godfrey, one ; by the Sec- 

 tary, Principal John MacSwain, seven. 



In Nova Scotia over 700 schedules, containing over 30,000 good 

 phenological observations made in connection with the public schools, 

 were sent in to the Education Department. Many of these schedules 

 arc more full that those made by the members of the club whose obser- 

 vations are tabulated in this report. As a study in phenology, the same 

 ten plants were selected from ten schedules in each of the eighteen coun- 

 ties of the province, and averaged. The observation on each species was 

 double : first, the date of the firsl flowering, then the date at which flower- 

 ing was considered to be becoming common. In fixing the latter date 

 the different observers might well be supposed to vary in their estimate 

 of the time, and there is evidence of a personal element in the different 

 schedules. The summation of as many as ten schedules from the various 

 counties illustrates the small amount of this deviation when a great 

 number of observers is massed together. The labour of compiling all the 

 observations will be very great; but the compilation of the observations 

 of only ten species from only ten schedules in each county has already 

 been done, and will indicate approximately what we might expect from 

 the whole. 



