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of them corresponding to the large state figured by Prof. Eaton, 
from Utica, N. Y. S., the other to what he calls the commonest 
form. 
Mr. JOHN BRITTEN, of Petitcodiac, N. B., writes me that he 
has found B. matricarvefolium in New Brunswick. 
Mr. JAMES Vroom, of St. Stephen, N. B., writes me that 
both Mr. Brirren and Prof. BaiLey collected B. simplex at 
Petitcodiac in 1881, and that Prof. BatLey found it in the 
College Grove at Fredericton about ten years ago. I have not 
seen the specimens. 
Mr. H. H. Betu of Halifax, found Botrychium Virginicum 
on Partridge Island at Five Islands, in Colchester County, in July 
1881. The Island is one of the five from which the place gets its 
name, is small but high, with very steep rocky sides, bare in 
most places; a path at one point leads to the top, which is thickly 
wooded. The fern grows on the top; found three or four speci- 
mens. 
Part IV. Plants grown by Mr. Jack at Bellahill, from seeds 
collected by Mr. Howard Stokes, in Manitoba. 
Mr. HowarpD STokEs, formerly of Halifax, collected seeds of 
a number of the Prairie flowers in the Pembina Mountain district 
in the summer of 1880, and sent them to his father, B. Stokes, 
Esq., formerly Storekeeper of H. M. Dockyard, now in Europe. 
The seeds were sown at Bellahill by Mr. JAck, who also gave 
portions to the Superintendent of the Public Garden. They 
flowered in the summer of 1882, and proved to be the following 
species :— 
1. Anemone cylindrica, Gray. The Cylindrical or Long- 
Fruited Anemone,so named from its achenes being arranged spike- 
like on a much elongated receptacle. This plant is fully 
described in my Monograph of the Ranunculacez published in a 
former part of the Transactions of the Institute. 
2. Liatris scariosa, Wild, a rather showy plant, and very 
variable in size and appearance. It extends from New England 
to Wisconsin and other Western States and southward, as well as 
into the British Territories; the specimens from the extreme - 
