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become a noxious weed in pastures, the juice being acrid, and 

 the secretion of the glands said to be injurious to the eyes of 

 cattle pasturing. Truro, in damp fields, introduced, Dr. G. C. 

 Campbell. 



Hypericum maculatu:si, Walfer. H. corymbosuvi, Muhl. 

 Halifax, Dr. Lindsay. 



Hypericum mutilum, Linn. Truro, in wet woods, back of 

 Terrace Hill Cemetery, Dr. G. C. Campbell. Windsor, Dr. How. 

 Dartmouth, Halifax County, Dr. Lindsay. 



Hypericum Canadense, Zi?m. Windsor, Dr. How. Halifax, 

 Drs. Lindsay and Somers. Truro, sandy spots in the Marsh, 

 common. Dr. G. C. Campbell. 



Elodes campanulata, Pursli. E. Virginica, Nuttall. Abun- 

 dant around the boggy margins of lakes, as Sandy Lake, Halifax 

 Count}^ 



Windsor, Dr. How. Pictou, A. H. Mackay. Truro, connnon 

 in swamps ; Smith's Island, etc., Dr. G. C. Campbell. 



MALVACEAE.* 



Malva rotundifolia, Linv. Common Mallow. Windsor 

 and Kentville, Dr. How. 



Malva moschata, Linn. By roadsides near Paradise, Annapo- 

 lis County, probably escaped from gardens, (flowers rose-coloured). 

 Sackville Mills, Halifax County, (flowers white). 



Pictou, A. H. Mackay. Cape Breton, H. Poole, in How's list. 



Malva crispa, Linn. Pictou, rare, A. H. Mackay. 



Malva hylvestris, Li^in. Ballast heaps at Pictou. I do 

 not know whether it is permanently established. 



The record of Sackville as a station for Malta horealis, in 

 CatalogTie, in Proceedings of the Institute, Vol. IV, p. 188, is 

 ^erroneous, and was printed without my knowledge ; the error is 

 repeated in Macoun's Catalogue, Part I, p. 86. 



Hibiscus Trioxum, Linn. Escaped from gardens, rare, A. H. 

 Mackay. 



•See Baker's recent papers in the London Journal of Botany. 



