PROCEEDINGS FOE 1894. XLIII 



Ontario. — Oa the 19th April, 1893, Professor John Macoun started for the Pacific Coast and 

 spent the summer collecting on Vancouver Island. Collections were also made at Victoria, Nanaimo, 

 Comos, Valdez Island, Sooke and manj' points inland, and a large series of specimens was obtained. 

 Altogether 1,400 species were collected ; and in addition to the many new species detected in 1887, 

 over thirty additional ones have been so far worked out from the collections made. New species of 

 Musci, Hepaticse and flowering plants have been named, and others ai'e under consideration. Mr. 

 James M. Macoun is writing a sei'ies of papers on the plants in the herbarium of the Geological 

 Survey, which will appear in the 'Canadian Kecord of Science' (the first of the series is already pub- 

 lished). In these articles all the later revisions of species will be discussed and descriptions of new 

 species as well as copious notes on the herbarium specimens will be given. Later in the year many 

 new facts will be arranged and published, and it is hoped that all working botanists will be helped by 

 this series of papers which will appear regularly. Mr. William Scott, late of Ottawa, and now of 

 Toronto Normal School, did some excellent work last summer. During his vacation he crossed over 

 to Vancouver Island and collected there and at various points on his way homo nearly 1,000 species 

 of flowering plants and ferns. Among other novelties, he obtained on Vancouver Island, Linaria 

 Canadensis, and in the vicinity of Ottawa, Myriophyllum alternifiorum, Linn. Another member, Mr. 

 Roderick Cameron, of Niagara Falls, has been at work for some years in making a complete catalogue 

 of the plants growing without cultivation on the Canadian side of the Falls. Mr. J. Dearness, Lon- 

 don, although for a part of the collecting season at Chicago, in charge of the educational exhibit, 

 reports the addition of nineteen new species to the Fungi of the province. These include a curious 

 Licea described by Dr. Morgan, in the Cincinnati ' Jouinal of Science,' as Lkea biforis, — (externally 

 it closely simulates a small bivalve) — and a new species oï Aschersoiva, a rare genus not hitherto said 

 to be reported north of Mexico. Mr. James White reports seventeen additional species of Musci to 

 the local flora of Edmonton. 



Quebec. — The work of Professor Penhallow, during the year, on the determination of the species 

 of American Couiferas by the structure of the stem (which is now being presented to the society), is 

 recognized to be of very great importance in the development of phanerogamic botany. 



New Brunswick. — Lists of local floras have been sent in dui-ing the year from many of the 

 county secretaries, as well as the dates of the more common flowering of plants whioh form a portion 

 of the so called phonological observations referred to elsewhere in this report. Those most worthy of 

 specification were from J. Vroom, St. Stephen, Charlotte Co.; N. F. Perkins, Queen's Co.; Alex. Ross, 

 B.A., Eestigouche Co., and Miss Fenwick, Upper Springfield. Mr. Geo. Oulton, Dorchester, County 

 Secretary for Westmoreland, reports much interest throughout his district in botanical work. 



Nova Scotia. — Botanical work here has been, to a considerable extent, associated with the 

 phenological observations. C. B. Robinson, B.A., for the first part of the year of King's County 

 Academy now of Pictou Academy, reported the dates of first flowering of about 270 plants, with 

 valuable additions to the flora of Pictou county. Prof. Coldwell, M.A., of Acadia ( 'oUege, took charge 

 of the organization of a corps of phenological observers in King's county. Miss Antoinette Forbes, 

 B.A., of Yarmouth County Academy (agent for all material generally required by botanists), Mr. 

 Harry Piers, Halifax, Principal W. R. Campbell, B.A., Truro, Miss Mary E. Charman, of Wallace, 

 and Miss Louise M. Paint, of Port Hawkesbury, sent in similar reports from their districts. Charles 

 E. Brown, Esq., of Yarmouth, sent in a list of the local grasses. Geo. H. Cox, B.A., prepared a 

 paper on the local flora of Shelburne, which is being published in the transactions of the Nova Scotia 

 Institute of Science. The number of persons engaged in similar work this present year is very con- 

 siderably greater than ever before. A summary of the phenological observations has been collated 

 for publication in the transactions of the Nova Scotian Institute of Science. 



Prince Edward Island. — Mr. John McSwain has been working on the mosses of the island 

 during the year. 



