288 BOTANICAL NOTES IN NOVA SCOTIA. — MACKAY. 



Stypocaulon scoparmm (L.) Kiitz. — A marine alga. First 

 found in America bv Dr. Howe at Pictou, and afterwards by 

 Mr. C. B. Robinson at Cape John (23rd April, 1903), and 

 afterwards at Pictou, Pictou Island, and at Pugwash, ]!^ova 

 Scotia; and on the Prince Edward Island coast opposite. 



TEKATOLOGICAL SPECIMENS. 



Ranuncidus acris (L.). The Tall Buttercup. — Misses 

 Curren and James presented a specimen from the Musquodoboit 

 Valley, Halifax county, in which a number of stalks were 

 united into a flat stem nearly an inch broad, with a number of 

 flowers sessile on the top. The branches and leaves belonging 

 to this flattened stem Avere peculiarly dwarfed. 



Taraxacum Taraxacum (L.) Karst. Common Dandelion. — 

 Several scapes nearly a foot long were united completely into 

 a flat band like a scape nearly an inch in Avidth, the whole 

 surmounted by a crowded buch of heads sessile on the united 

 first scape. Halifax county. 



Chrysanthemum Leucanthemum (L.). Ox-eye Daisy. — 

 Several stems apparently all united into an enlarged fluted and 

 inflated stem which was surmounted by a crowded bunch of 

 sessile heads. The leaves arising from the stem were peculiarly 

 dwarfed. Queens Co., W. H. Prest. 



Iris versicolor (L.). — What appears to be a white mutation 

 or variety of the Common Blue Flag was discovered near 

 Guysboro county. Several specimens were foiuid near the 

 Lochaber Lake by Mrs. M. W. Andrews of Isaac's Harbor, 

 roots of some were taken up to be cultivated under observation. 



