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Mile Plains, between Windsor (town) and Newport. Buckets of 

 it were brought to an English colleague and myself, both of us 

 being glad to renew our acquaintance with our pungent favorite of 

 former days. 



9, MonesBS unifiora is mentioned in Prof. Lawson's elabor- 

 Tite Monograph of the Ericaceae of the Dominion and Adjacent 

 Parts of British America, (read before the Institute, 1871) as 

 having been found at Mount Uniacke. I have met with it near 

 Windsor and at Wilmot. We have here also Pyrola elliptica^ 

 and jP. seciinda. P. rotundifolia I have got near the Rectory at 

 Wilmot. 



10, Edhium vulgar e. Blue Weed. This European plant I 

 have got in a field of Mr. McLean's, about 4 miles from New 

 Glasgow, on the road to Merigonish, Pictou county. I was told 

 that it grows only in -[hat spot. 



11. Of European plants observed near Sydney Mines, Cape 

 Breton, may be mentioned JJrtica urens which was said to have 

 been introduced a little before 1859 when I saw it, Lepidhim 

 Tuderale and Euphrasia officinalis, 



12. Yiola rotundifolia. This pretty plant, the one yellow 

 violet, of which there is a specimen in the Herbarium before men- 

 tioned, I have only seen growing at the locality where that speci- 

 men was got, viz : at the Manganese Mine, in the woods at Teny 

 Cape, Hants county. 



Art. XHI. On the Meteoeology of Halifax. By Fred- 

 erick Allison, Esq. 



{Read May 8, 1872.) 



^Y paper this evening opens with a brief sketch of the Meteor- 

 ology of Halifax for 1871. The accompanying table of figures is 

 rather more extended than in previous years ; since I have now 

 obtained accurate observations of most elements for nine years, and 

 can therefore venture to calculate normals with a fair guarantee of 

 precision. Certainly a more lengthy series will give results more 



