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land, Labrador, and the French Islands,^ the first fascicle 

 — including the Orders from the Ranunculacece to the 

 Leguminosce — having been already issued.^ Besides these 

 papers, Mr. Waghorne has published a number of popular 

 articles in the daily journals of St. John's, chiefly upon 

 the common plants of the islands. 



The ph(tnogamic flora of Newfoundland has been 

 scarcely represented in the leading herbaria of Europe 

 and America, and in none better than by fragmentary 

 sets of Banks and La Pylaie. With a hope of securing a 

 number of uniform sets for general distribution, to form 

 a basis for a fuller and more accurate knowledge of the 

 flora, the writers visited the island in the summer of 

 1894, spending there the last days of July and nearly the 

 whole of August. While the time was much too limited 

 to permit anything like thorough exploration of so exten- 

 sive a territory, no less than seven localities were visited, 

 and, with the exception of the mosses, larger fleshy fungi, 

 and fresh -water algre, practically all species of plants seen 

 were secured, so that the collections — which in gross 

 amounted to nearly 8,000 specimens — are without doubt 

 representative of the general flora, even if far from being 

 complete. 



The first week was spent in collecting about St. John's, 

 from which it was possible to visit, by short excursions, 

 points differing much in exposure and moisture, and of 

 corresponding diversity of vegetation. The tourist reach- 

 ing St. John's is at once struck with the rugged scenery 

 of the coast at this point. The deep harbour is shut in 

 by precipitous rocky hills, from five to seven hundred 

 feet in height, whose tops are too often buried in fog. 



1 The flora of the Frenrh Islands has been carefully studied and well recorded by 

 Bachelot de la Pylaie— Flore de I'ile de Terre-Neuve et des iles Saint Pierre et Miclon, 

 1829, and Ann. Sci. Nat., IV., 174-184. 1824; E. Bonnet— Fiorule des iles Saint Pierre 

 etMiquelon, 1888 (Jour, de Dot., I ); and E. Delaniere, F. Renauld. and J. Cardot— 

 Flora Miquelonensis, 1888. 



2 Trans. Nova Scotian Inst. Soi., Ser. 2, I. 



