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REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON FLORA OF THE PROVINCE 



OF QUEBEC. 



Your Committee has considered the recommendations of Bro. M. Victorin 

 made in the paper read at the present meeting in response to the request of the 

 President, and begs to make the following report. 



Your committee, agrees with the view that a revision of Provancher's Flora 

 is, for the reasons set forth by Bro. Victorin, impracticable and inadvisable. But 

 your committee feels at the same time that the publication in the near fuure of a 

 Flore de Quebec of some sort is highly desirable. The feeling is also strongly 

 held that an exhaustive flora of the province, with full illustrations, for which the 

 time is perhaps not fully ripe, is less necessary than one in the French language 

 which would be general'ly useful in the schools. The absence of a suitable general 

 text-book of botany is also patent. 



Your committee, therefore, recommends that there be prepared a more 

 limited general Flore de Quebec, of such scope that it can be used very generally 

 in the schools and colleges, illustrated as far as feasible so as to increase its usable- 

 ness; and that there be combined with it a brief general discussion of botanical 

 principles especially as they bear upon agriculture, arranged in such form as to 

 make the whole book especially useful to schools in the country. 



And further that an editorial committee be appointed by the president to 

 undertake the preparation and supervision of such a book, to report at the next 

 annual meeting of this Society, and in the meantime to confer with the Provincial 

 Government as to the possibilities for publication. 



Your committee recommends that the co-operation of interested institutions 

 and persons be sought in order to the more efficient carrying out of the above 

 plan. 



Committee :— Dr. R. CAMPBELL, 

 FATHER LEOPOLD, 

 FRANCIS E. LLOYD. 



Quebec Society for the Protection of Plants, 

 Annual ]\Ieeting, March 26th, 1914. 



THE SAW-FLIES OF THE PROVINCE OF QUEBEC. 



A Correction. 



In the Fifth Report of the Quebec Society for the Protection of Plants 

 from Insects and Fungous Diseases, on page twenty-eight, the first sentence, in 

 the bottom paragraph, reads, "No 'less than eight named insects have been re- 

 lated by Cresson, in his Synopsis of the Hynienoptera of America, North of 

 Mexico, to Climb ex am eric ana. e 



In this passage, related (as well a.sCli)iibcx) is a printer's error. I wrote 

 relegated, in the sense of referred. (Relego, are, avi, atum; to refer; to transfer). 



The insects referred by Cresson to America were : — 



"Alba Norton. Trans. Am. Ent. Soc., I, 42° ( = auicricana). 



Dahlbomii Gu€. ; Norton, ibid. 42° (=var. americana). 



decemmacidata Leach; Norton, ibid. 42° ( = var. americana'). 



