342 Canadian Record of Science. 



Some of the Rarer Summer Flowers of Canada. 



By Robert Campbell, M.A., D.D., Montreal. 



It may help to a knowledge of the distribution of plant 

 life in the Dominion, to give a list of the rarer plants 

 picked up in different parts of the country, which 

 have been visited in the summer season, either in the way 

 of duty or pleasure. It was the writer's privilege lately 

 to spend a couple of weeks in South Western* Ontario. 

 During that time it was his good fortune to meet with the 

 botanical section of the Natural History Society of 

 London, Ontario, and to spend a few hours with them in 

 field work on and near the banks of the Thames. This 

 expedition was fruitful in the acquisition of not a few 

 specimens, found in Canada only in that district. Anyone 

 familiar with Professor Macoun's Catalogue of Canadian 

 Plants is aware how largely he drew, in compiling it, 

 from the collection made by Dr. Burgess, in the London 

 district. The county of Lambton was also visited lately, 

 — the town of Forest, and the shores of Lake Huron at 

 Kettle and Stony Points, and several captures were made 

 in that region of specimens not often found further east. 

 Gait, Brantford, the County of Lanark, Sherbrooke, 

 Cacouna, Cap-a-L'Aigle and St. John, New Brunswick, all 

 have yielded their quota of the following, now embraced 

 in my collection : — 



Anemone nemorosa, L. — Sherbrooke and Hyde Park, 

 Toronto. 



Ranunculus MULTiFmus,var. terrestris, Gray. — Town- 

 ship of Drummond, Ont. 



Ranunculus repens, L. — Banks of the Thames, London. 



Ranunculus Pennsylvaticus, L. — Woods near Brant- 

 ford. 



Delphinium ajacis, L. — Township of Dundee, Quebec. 



