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There are also several asters and species of Compositée not yet determined. 
Plants collected in the vicinity of Victoria and presented by Dr. C. F. Newcombe :— 
Brasenia Schreberi Gmel. Orobanche comosa Took. 
Platyspermum scapigerum Hook. Artemisia canadensis Michx. 
Lupinus lepidus Dougl. Agoseris laciniata (Gray) Greene. 
Further additions are :— 
Loiscleuria procumbens Desv. From the vicinity of Prince Rupert; presented by Miss 
Beaman. 
Potentilla paradoxa Nutt. Collected at Spences Bridge, B.C., August 6th, 1920, and presented 
by Mr. W. A. Newcombe. 
Carer Crawei Dewey. Collected at Golden, B.C., June 20th, 1920, and presented by 
Professor J. K. Henry. 
Hydrophyllum tenuipes Heller; Calamagrostis aleutica Trin. Vancouver Island specimens 
presented by Mr. J. G. French. 
Gentina propinqua Richardson. Collected at Cameron Lake, V-I., August 6th, 1916, by 
Mr. W. R. Carter and identified by Professor C. VY. Piper, this being a new addition to the 
Vancouver Island flora. 
Among these contributions the following appear to be new additions to the flora of British 
Columbia :— 
Carex Crawei Dewey. 
Potentilla paradoxa Nutt. 
During the season a large number of plants have been identified for children attending some 
of the Victoria City schools and others residing in several districts of Vancouver Island. These 
plants were brought in by Miss M. Lawson, of the Colonist staff, who gave up a great deal of 
time and work in the interests of the children by publishing a list weekly in the Sunday edition 
of the Daily Colonist. This created a marked competition between the collectors, and, besides 
keeping up their individual interest, was decidedly effective as an educational lesson in nature- 
study by teaching them the names of some of their native flora. 
Some of the plants received were in such poor condition that identification was impossible, 
and it is desirable, should this work be continued, that some simple methods be followed in 
collecting and preparing specimens which would be beneficial to all concerned. 
It is worthy of mention that among the plants received were two (both introduced plants 
and probably garden escapes), which, so far as we know, have not been previously recorded in 
British Columbia, growing in a wild state, namely: 
Borago officinalis L. Collected at William Head by Miss Barbara Cox. 
Nothoscordum bivalve (1..) Britton. Collected on Foul Bay Road, Victoria, by Master 
Jack Miller. 

ENTOMOLOGY. 
By E. H. BuackMokrs, F.E.S. 
In my remarks in the Provincial Museum Reports for the years 1918 and 1919 special 
mention was made of the searcity of insects in general and noctuids in particular, thinking that 
we had reached the limit in this respeet, but from a collecting standpoint neither of those years 
was as bad as the season just past. The weather conditions were somewhat abnormal, the total 
rainfall for this year being 3 inches above the annual average, eight months out of the twelve 
being above the ayerage precipitation; this, together with a great deal of cool weather in the 
early spring, made collecting conditions very unsatisfactory. 
The fall collecting was also exceedingly poor, as it started to rain on September Sth and 
continued more or less until the end of the collecting season. Notwithstanding these drawbacks, 
some very interesting material was taken during the season, and it only goes to prove that if 
continuous and persistent collecting is carried on one can always turn up some rare and 
uncommon species, however unfavourable the season may be from weather conditions or other 
causes. 
Some two or three years ago, on looking over the list of Microlepidoptera as recorded in 
the 1906 Check-list of British Columbia Lepidoptera, I was very much struck with the com- 
paratively few species listed from Vancouver Island (excepting Wellington), and especially 
from Victoria. 

