6 List of the Plants of New Brunswick. 



The next notice appeared in 1869, when Mr. G. F. Matthew pub- 

 lished a valuable and thoughtful paper " On the Occurrence of Arctic 

 and Western Plants in Continental Acadia." The paper was read 

 before the Society, April 13, 1869, and published in the June number 

 of Canadian Naturalist. 



In 1876, Dr. L. W. Bailey and Edward Jack, Esq., prepared and 

 published a " Descriptive Catalogue of the Woods and Minerals of 

 New Brunswick," for use at the Centennial Exhibition at Philadel- 

 phia. It embodies a large amount of valuable information from an 

 economic standpoint, and gives the most reliable account of the uses 

 of our forest trees that has yet been presented to the public. 



No further references to the subject occur till January, 1879, when 

 the Provincial Agricultural Report for the previous year appeared 

 with a "List of New Brunswick Plants" by the present writer. 

 The List was subsequently published in the Educational Circular. 

 It gives the names of 1,074 species, 743 of which are Phanerogams 

 and the remainder Cryptogams. All of these the writer had him- 

 self collected or seen in the possession of others. The publication 

 aw T akened the interest of the students of Botany, and specimens of 

 rare or new plants were forwarded to him from different parts of the 

 Province. His own residence in Fredericton in 1878-9 gave him an 

 opportunity of securing some new material, and in the Report of the 

 following year (1880) he published "Additions to the List of New 

 Brunswick Plants," accompanied by an article on the "Advantages 

 resulting from a Knowledge of the Flora of our Province." 



In 1882 the New Brunswick Natural History Society published 

 the first number of its Annual Bulletin, containing the Report of the 

 Botanical Committee of the Society, and a List of the species dis- 

 covered since the publication of the previous paper. The two suc- 

 ceeding Bulletins contain additional Lists bringing up the number of 

 species discovered to the close of 1883. In Bulletin No. 2 appeared 

 an interesting paper on the " Botany of the Upper St. John " by 

 Mr. G. IT. Hay, who has devoted considerable attention to an inves- 

 tigation of the plants of the St. John and its tributaries. Since his 

 removal to Ontario (1880) the writer has received specimens of 

 many new species from botanic friends, and by their kind aid has 

 compiled the present Catalogue as a contribution to the advancement 

 of Botanic Science in his native Province. His aim has been in the 

 compilation to exclude every species of which he had not seen a 



