LIV ROYAJ. SOCIETY OF CANADA 



From Assiniboia, Mr. Donnelly, of Pheasant Forks, senHs in a sche- 

 dule of observations. 



From Alberto, Mr. Willing, of Sylvan Glade, Olds, sends in a large 

 number of observations, most of which cannot be published at present 

 on account of their being outside of the schedule list to which our tabu- 

 lation is adapted. 



From British Columbia, the secretary for the province reports that 

 the work of the club has been brought before the teachers of the public 

 schools, who are taking a greater interest in botany. At attempt is now 

 being made to secure observers at several points in the Fraser Valley and 

 in Kootenay. Mr. Lawton, of the British Columbia branch of the club, 

 is making collections in Alaska. Mr. Jacobs was the discoverer of a new 

 species of violet according to the determination of Professor Macoun. 

 Mr. Hill, of New Westminster, has succeeded in getting Erythroiiium 

 Smiihii, indigenous to the west coast of Vancouver Island, to bloom in 

 his garden. Mr. Henry says he was interested last spring in observing 

 the *' spontaneous appearance of Erythronium giganteum, several plants, 

 in Stanley Park, Vancouver. It certainly 1ms not grown there of recent 

 years, nor, as far as I know, in this vicinity. On May 1-ith I collected 

 several beautiful specimens of Fragaria Chilensis with red blossom?. A 

 Trillium ovatum, perfectly symmetrical in 2's, 2 leaves, 2 sepals, 2 petals, 

 4 stamens, 2 styles, was sent me from Boundary Bay. Our common 

 Botrychium ternatum has been separated as a new species by Professor 

 Underwood — B. occidentale. A curious plant of Digitalis purpurea, a 

 species which has thoroughly established itself here, was found by Mr. 

 Hill. The half-dozen flower spikes were each abruptly terminated by a 

 monstrous flower, so that the plant presented a very striking appearance. 

 I had one spike photographed and inclose proof (unfortunately I can 

 find no linished print). As, however, I saw the same thing in the 

 Botanical Gardens, Lincoln Park, Chicago, it would not appear to be 

 the freak we had supposed." 



Below I present the instructions and blanks sent out for the record- 

 ing of phenological observations in public schools in Nova Scotia, 

 as they were the instructions also sent to the members of th(* club 

 throughout the Dominion, together with the supplementary blank for 

 the western provinces of the Dominion. Then follow the names of the 

 observers belonging to the chil) and their observations in tabular form. 



A. II. MacKay, 

 Secretary Botanical Club of Canada. 



