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NOTES ON THE FLORA OF HAMILTON. 



BY J. M. BUCHAN. 



In laying before this Society the list of Canadian plants which is 

 appended to this paper, and in directing your attention to a few of 

 the more interesting facts connected with the botany of Hamilton, 

 I desire it to be understood that my object is mainly memorial. The 

 late Judge Logie, who was, I believe, for many years a member of 

 the Canadian Institute, devoted a portion of his leisure hours, during 

 the latter part of his life, to making a collection of dried specimens 

 of our indigenous and naturalized plants, and I deem it only just to 

 his memory to make known to the limited circle of those who take 

 an interest in botany how much he has done and how well he has 

 done it. I derive a sort of right to act as his botanical executor 

 from the understanding that existed between us for some time pre- 

 vious to his decease that we should jointly work up and publish a 

 complete flora of Hamilton ; and as death has prevented him from 

 fulfilling his part of our mutual design, I take a pleasure, though a 

 melancholy one, in showing what he had done towards carrying out 

 his share of the agreement. I have also been incited to lay before 

 you a list of the specimens contained in Judge Logie's collection, 

 by the hope that it might be of use to those gentlemen who have 

 announced their intention of publishing systematic expositions of 

 the flora of Canada ; and I have for the same reason added a sup- 

 plementary list of plants not contained in Judge Logie's list, which 

 have come under my own observation. Besides the announcements 

 above referred to, made by Professors Macoun and Gibson of Belle- 

 ville, and Dr. Eoss of Toronto, it has given me much pleasure to 

 notice other signs of an increasing interest in the study of botany, 

 and particularly to learn that there are some in this Society who 

 devote themselves to the most charming of the sciences. Although 

 the knowledge of this last fact causes me some trepidation, when I 

 reflect how incomplete the list is which I lay before them, I venture 



