PROCEEDINGS FOR 1899 LUI 



From Ontario only one schedule of phenological observations has 

 been received — from Miss Hollingworth, of Miiskoka. Such observations 

 are always being made in connection with the Dominion Experimental 

 Farm, but have not been received at date. 



In addition to his work as the Botanist of the Geological Survey of 

 Canada, the President has worked up the Cryptogamic Flora of Ottawa, 

 which has been published in the Ottawa Naturalist, volumes XL and 

 XII., October, 1897, to September, 1898. 



J'ames M. Macoun, Curator of the Herbarium, is continuing the 

 publication of his " Contributions from the Herbarium of the Geologi- 

 cal Survey of Canada in the Canadian Becord of Science and in the 

 Ottawa Naturalist. 



New work has been opened out in some of these papers for our 

 botanists in the fuller study of our so-called polymorphous species. Some 

 of these would appear, from Mr. Macoun's investigations, to be really 

 groups of closely related species. He makes the following suggestions 

 for the information of those interested : 



" Almost toy of the larger genera will repay special study, but tho,se 

 from which good results are sure to be obtained by local workers ajre 

 Antennaria and Viola. 



There is no Antennaria plantagini folia in Canada, but there are at 

 least five species which have been p'assing under that name. We have 

 three at Ottawa. In collecting this genus it is necessary to secure young 

 flowering plants of both sexes if possible. The place should then be 

 marked carefully so that mature plants may be got from the locality. 



The violets of the cucullata group have not been worked up in 

 Canada except in this vicinity, where I have 'already got six good species 

 out of v. cucullata, with one or two more to come. 



There are at least four species in Canadian V. Manda. Violets must 

 be collected in both fruit and flower, 'as the apetalous flowers and the fruit 

 are the most important parts. The flower should be collected as early 

 as possible, then again a week or ten days later when the 'apetalous flowers 

 show* then in fruit, and later in summer foliage. Some species con- 

 tinue to flower underground all summer, while others last but a short 

 time." 



Full descriptions of the Ottawa violets referred to, with excellent 

 plates, are published by Mr. Macoun in the Ottawa Naturalist of Janu- 

 ary, 1899, Vol. XII. Reference has already been made to the new violet, 

 Viola Watsoni, Greene, found by L. W. Weston in Prince Edward Island. 

 Another new species was discovered by Mr. Jacobs in British Columbia. 



From Manitoba no report has come at the date of this compilation. 



