VI PREFACE. 



Holmes, made in the neighborhood of Montreal as early as 1821. The 

 McGill College collections are from all parts of Canada, but chiefly from 

 Quebec, and are of very great scientific interest. * 



For our notices of Newfoundland plants, besides the volumes men- 

 tioned above, we are indebted to the late Dr. John Bell, who published 

 a list of plants collected by him on the west coast of that island in the 

 summer of 1867, in the Canadian Naturalist for 1869 ; and to the McGill 

 College Herbarium. 



Our knowledge of the Nova Scotia flora is derived chiefly from a list 

 published in the Proceedings and Transactions of the Nova Scotian 

 Institute of Natural Science for 1875-76, to which the following gentle- 

 men contribute : Prof. How, D.C.L., King's College, Windsor, N. S. ; 

 Prof. Lawson, Ph.D., LL.D., Dalhousie College, Halifax, N. S. ; Prof. 

 Sommers, M.D., Halifax Medical College ; Eev. E. H. Ball, St. Luke's, 

 Halifax, N. S.; D. A. Campbell, M.D., C.M., Halifax Medical College; 

 A. W. H. Lindsay, M.D., Halifax, N. S. In addition to the published 

 catalogue, A. H. McKay, B.A., Principal of the Pictou Academy, N. S., 

 sent me a very valuable manuscript list of his own extensive collections 

 in that province and the islands in the Gulf of St. Lawrence. McGill 

 College Herbarium also supplies additional matter. 



New Brunswick notices are principally from a catalogue of New 

 Brunswick plants, published in the years 1878-79, by the Rev. James 

 Fowler, M.A., Professor of Natural History, Queen's College, Kingston, 

 Ont., but late Science Master in the Normal School at Fredericton, N. B. 

 The Bulletin of the Natural History Society of New Brunswick for the 

 years 1882-83 contains additional notices both of species and localities. 

 Contributions from the following gentlemen are also 'acknowledged : 

 G. F. Matthew, M.A., Prof. Bailey, Messrs. G. U. Hay, James Vroom, 

 Robert Chalmers, James Moser, Arthur J. Trueman, J. Brittain, G. H. 

 Burnett and J. E. Wetmore. 



Our knowledge of the Quebec flora is obtained from the following 

 sources : A catalogue of the plants collected by the late Dr. Andrew 

 Holmes in the vicinity of Montreal about the year 1821. The plants 

 themselves are in the Herbarium of McGill College. Dr. Thomas' list of 

 the plants growing at Riviere du Loup and on the Island of Orleans. 

 L'Abb Ovide Brunei's Catalogue, published in 1865 by himself, and 

 distributed to his friends, gave all the Canadian plants in the Herbarium 

 of Laval University, Quebec. W. S. M. D' Urban collected, in the year 



* Among the principal contributors to the McGill College Herbarium, the following may be 

 mentioned: Dr. Andrew Holmes, Miss Brodie, Rev. Mr. Butler, D. P. H. Wilkins, B.A. 

 Labrador plants; Mr. George Barnston, Arctic plants; H.B. Trapnell, Newfoundland plants 

 W. W- Doherty, New Brunswick plants; Principal Dawson, Dr. F. W. Kelley, Nova Scotian 

 plants. Also Dr. R. S. McConnell, Dr. B- J. Harrington. Dr. C. E. Graham, Dr B. J- Wales 

 Dr. John Boll, and Messrs. W. B. Dawson, B.A., H. H. Lyman. B.A., R. G. McConnell, B.A. 

 D. Currie, B.A., L. M. England, B.A., Walter Lyman, B.A., J. C- McRae, J. A. Porter, B.A. 

 R. C. Kirkpn trick, James Menna-n and G. H. Blackadar. 



