toi TAK 
Island, in ua 5. lat. and 163° an long., is reported to be inhabited by a 
small Eng lish-speaking community. 
A eects has also dem Lus oclai med over the Cook garpen which 
in ie by the Rev. W. Wyatt Gill :—-Eleocarpus sp., Alphitonia — — 
excelsa, Inocarpus edulis, Melastosio di denticulatum, Mussenda fron j 
Vitex trifolia, Ficus. tinctoria, and Centotheca lappacea. The same 
g an also collected a few plants in the neighbouring island of 
Mangaia, including the widely T Osteomeles anthyllidifolia 
Many other islands in Pacific Ocean, mostly nninhsbited, are 
English possessions, and s of thief have been leased out for guano 
collection. Among t ced are Pilgrim, Ducie, Roggewein, Dudosa, 
ostoc, Bauman, and Flin 
Hemsley, W. B. List of Plants collected by J. F. Arundel, Esq., 
in various small guano islands in the Pacific. Botany of the “ Chal- 
lenger ” gi ey ae i. 3, p. 116. See also Introduction to the same 
work, pp. 
13. THE DOMINION OF CANADA AND NEWFOUNDLAND. 
Tue Dominton or CANADA extends from the gp to the Pacific, 
diete nearly 86 degrees of longitude, from 55° to 141° W., and from 
42° N. lat., in the lake region, bouis ie area being n 
at 3,470,392 square miles, exclusiv e of the p eat lakes and rivers. It 
is now divided into seven aree name Vova Scotia, Prince 
Edward Island, New Brunswick, Old TER A "Ontario and Quebec), 
Manitoba, British Columbia (which includes Queen Charlotte and 
Vancouver Islands), and the € west Territories — Assiniboia, 
Saskatehewan, Alberta, and Athabas 
There is no complete descriptive d on the aoa of British 
North America; but Professor Macoun’s * Catalogue," which is- 
approaching completion, gives particulars of the dee iban of the 
plants throughout the Dominion and Newfoundland, vm descriptions of 
nearly all of them will be found in the works cited belo 
Anticost! is an island in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, 125 miles long, 
and 30 miles across in its broadest part, with an estimated area of 2,500 
square miles. Well wooded and mountainous. 
Britisu CorUMBiA comprises the territory between the Rocky 
Mountains and the Pacific coast, the average breadth being about 250 
miles, and the length of the coast line 450 miles. It is the most moun- 
tainous part of the Dominion, culminating a Paay Hooker, in the 
Rocky Mountains, which is about 16,600 feet | igh 
xw Brunswick is situated between 45° 5' and 48° 5’ N. lat., and is 
ibis with Nova Scotia by a low isthmus. Area about 97,1 105 
square miles, : 
