VIII. — Notes for a Flora of Nova Scotia. Part I*. — B\^ 

 George Lawson, Ph. D., LL. D. 



[Received July 15th, 1S91.] 



RANUNCULACE^.f 



Clematis Virginiana, Linn. Banks of streams, rocky or 

 stony banks, ravines, etc., climbing over bushes and small trees. 

 Shores of Bras d'Or Lake, between Whycocomagh and West Bay, 

 Cape Breton. Banks of the Sackville River : abundant near the 

 iron bridge, and at several spots along the Windsor Road between 

 Bedford and Salmon Hole, Halifax County. 



Wilmot, Ann., near New Glasgow, Pictou County, and Fal- 

 mouth, Hants, Dr. How. Pictou, A. H. McKay and Dr. Lindsa}-. 

 Whycocomagh, Dr. Lindsay. Truro, l:)anks of streams, among 

 alders, etc., common. Dr. G. C. Campbell. This plant has been 

 cultivated in England since 1767, as an ornamental creeper, 

 being well adapted for covering walls and arbours : its flowers 

 are highly fragrant, which is unusual in the genus, and the 

 wreaths of feathery plumes formed by the fruiting plant in 

 autumn are very striking. In Nova Scotia it succeeds best on 

 the shady sides of buildings. 



This species is figured in Mrs. Miller's series of life-sized 

 coloured drawings of the wild flowers of Nova Scotia, Part Y., 



* Let not these Note^ be regarded as, in any sense, a Ft'Tu of Nova Scotia. Our Flora is a 

 very rich one, especiallj- in northern species and forms, and a more careful comparison of our 

 plants with those of Newfoundland, the Greenland shores, Iceland, Great Britain, Scandinavia, 

 and the Russian Empire, may be expected to yield results of more than local interest. The present 

 Notes, then, even when completed by extension to the reniainina; Orders, must be looked upon as 

 representing a mere fragment of our Flora, showing' only its more obvious features. My 

 object has been to bring together, in a convenient form, as much as possible of what is now known, 

 so as to present a prodromal list that may be useful to those willing to aid in exploration. Large 

 collections of Nova Scotia specimens that have already been made are still unexamined, and much 

 remains to be done by collectors in the supply of additional material before even an approximately 

 full list of our plants can be prepared. Corrections and additions will be thankfully received. 



t For full descriptions of the several species, and their synonym.v, see Lawson's Monograph 

 of Canadian Kanunculacese, in Transactions of the Nova Scotia Institute, Vol. II., Part IV., pages 

 18-51 (ISTu); also. Revision of the Canadian Ranunculacere, in Transactions of the Royal Society 

 of Canada, Vol. II., Sec. IV , pp. \b-<dQ (18S4). 



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