86 FLORA OF NOVA SCOTIA — LAWSON. 



Canadense, given by Cornutiiis. In these circumstances, I have, 

 meantime, kept tlie name tt) whicli we have lieen accustomed, an(' 

 hope to deal with the question of nomenclature at an early oppor- 

 tunity. In Part III. of Macoun's Catalooue of Canadian Plants, p. 

 479, Bedford, Nova Scotia, is cited as a station for Thalictrum 

 purjyurascens, Linn. On representing to Prof. Macoun the 

 unlikelihood of that plant existing there, without having been 

 detected by myself or some local botanist, he made investigation, 

 and now authorizes me to state that the record referred to is. an 

 error that had crept in from some old notes made before the true 

 character of lourinivascens was understood. It appears that the 

 Bedford specimens of Thalictrum have always stood in the Ottawa 

 Herbarium labelled as T. Cornutii, as they ought to V)e.* 



Anemone Hepatica, Linn. Orows usually in hard-wood 

 lands ; rare in Nova Scotia. 



Nesbit's Island, and Falmouth, near Windsor, Hants, rare, 

 Dr. How. Bridgewater, Lunenburg Count}', Rev. E. H. Ball- 

 Pictou, ver}^ rare, A. H. Mackay. 



This is the Hepatica triloba of Gray's Manual, Imt should not 

 be separated as a genus from Anemone. 



Anemone nemorosa, Linn. Wood Anemone. Anemone, or 

 Wind-Flower, of tlie English poets. In woods, rare in Nova 

 Scotia. 



River bank at Middle Stewiacke, Colchester, May 27th, 1884, 

 Dr. G. C. Campbell. Newport, Hants, H. H. Bell. 



Anemone Virginiana, Linn. Usually grows on intervales 

 alono- the banks of rivers, but rare in Nova Scotia. 

 Truro, Salmon River bank. Dr. G. C. Campl)ell. 



Anemone dichotoma, Linn. Rare in Nova Scotia. 



Near Truro, Colchester County, Dr. D. A. Campbell. A. dicho- 

 toma is the prior name of the species (dating from the year of 

 the settlement of Halifax, 1749), Init, in Graj-'s Manual, and in 

 Lindsay and Somers' List, it will l)e found under the later 

 specific name, Pennsylvanica. 



* For ample details of synonymy of the genus, see " Monoyraphie dti ijenie Tluil,rtuiin, \\\v 

 3. C. Lecoyer. Gand : imprimerle C. Anrjoot-Braeckman, lsS5. Pp. 24!). Tab. V, 



