72 NEW AND RARE PLANTS—LAWSON. 
made some very interesting discoveries. His attention was called, 
in the greenhouse in the garden of Mrs. CHARLES CONNELL, to a 
fern found by the gardener in the neighbourhood during the fall 
of 1881, whilst gathering leaf mould from under the snow. Mr. 
JACK, perceiving that the fern was Scolopendriwm vulgare, an 
extremely rare species on the American Continent, for which 
we have only the one Canadian locality at Owen Sound, 
visited the place, some six miles distant, where the gardener had 
obtained it, but no trace of the plant could then be found. The 
plant in the greenhouse was a seedling, apparently of two or three 
years growth. The gardener (Mr. SUTTON) subsequently, how- 
ever, succeeded, by diligent search, in finding two small plants, 
both of which have been forwarded to Halifax, and are now in 
Mr. JACK’S greenhouse. They came with the native moss and 
mould still attached to their roots, and effectually confirm one of 
the most interesting fern discoveries made for some years. Since 
then two more plants of larger size have been received by Mr. 
Jack, and a frond of one of them is now presented to the 
Institute. Whilst at Woodstock he visited the station for Adz- 
antum pedatum, a wood six or seven miles distant, and found it 
to be abundant. But he found at the same place a much greater 
rarity, viz., Aspidium Goldianwm, not previously known to exist 
in the Maritime Provinces; also: 
Viola Canadensis, which had been found for the first time 
in New Brunswick by Mr. CHALMERS, of the Geological Survey, 
a few days before, at another place. At Grand Falls Mr. J. 
found Weodsia glabella, which, so far as known, had only been 
ascertained to exist in one other place previously in New Bruns- 
wick, viz: Tunnel, at Restigouche. Pellea gracilis was found 
in cleft of rock opposite Woodstock. 
Part III. Localities for species of Botrychiwm. 
I have to add the names of a few very interesting forms of 
Botrychium found during the past summer at Truemanville, in 
the County of Cumberland, by Cuas. H. TRUEMAN, a science 
student of Dalhousie College. These are Botrychiwm lanceo- 
latum, Angstrom, and two forms of B. matricaricefoliwm, one 
