﻿50 Canadian Record of Science. 



Mountains, alt. 8,000 feet. {John Macoun.) New to 

 Canada. 



Pycnanthemum muticum, Pers. 



Near Hamilton, Ont. {J. 31. Dickson.) New to Canada. 



Carex festiva. Dew., var. Haydeniana, W. Boott. 



Borders of coulees, Cypress Hills, Assa., 1894. Herb. 

 No. 7,397. (John Macoun.) Not before recorded east of 

 Kocky Mountains. 



Lycopodium obscukum, L. ; Macoun, Cat. Can. Plants, 

 Vol. II., p. 288. 



Near Fort Norman, Mackenzie Kiver, 1892. (Miss E. 

 Taylor.) Eevelstoke, B.C., 1890. (John Macoun.) Not 

 before recorded north or west of the Saskatchewan. 



Lycopodium inundatum. L. 



Swamp at " The Lake," Stanley Park, Vancouver, B.C., 

 1893. Herb. No. 527 (John Macoun.) Not before re- 

 corded west of Ontario. 



Currents and Temperatures in the Gulf of St. 

 Lawrence. 



By Andrew T. Drummond, LL.D. 



That the cold Arctic or Labrador Current which, in 

 a broad belt, skirts the easterly coasts of Labrador and 

 Newfoundland,. sends, when passing the Straits of Belle 

 Isle, a branch westerly into the Gulf of St. Lawrence, 

 influencing thus, the temperature of the water on, not 

 only its northerly coasts, but far up the estuary of the St. 

 Lawrence, has been the hitherto received opinion. This 

 opinion obtained confirmation not only from the presence 

 of icebergs in the Gulf of St. Lawrence 275 miles westerly 



