Northern News. 



vegicum, Ardostaphylus alpina, Phyllodoce caerulea, Vaccinium 

 uliginositm, Salix herbacea, Spiranthes Romanzoffiana, Listera 

 cordata, Tofieldia palustris, Juncus castaneus, Luzula spicata, 

 Scirpus caespitosus, Car ex paucifiora, C. canescens, C. rigida, 

 C. aquatilis, C. vaginata, C. rariflora, C. capillaris, C. Oederi, 

 C. saxatilis, Phleum alpinum, Calamagrostis negleda, Poa 

 alpina, Lycopodium alpinum, L. Selago, Selaginella selaginoides, 

 Polystichum Lonchitis, Cystopteris montana, ect. 



It has seemed to me from the fact that Potamogeton epihy- 

 drum does ascend to alpine regions of Eastern Quebec, where it 

 is associated with hundreds of truly circumpolar species, that 

 this species is probably more northern than we have given it 

 credit for. We know nothing, essentially, of the Pondweeds 

 from north of the Gulf of St. Lawrence, but the species with 

 which this one occurs on Tabletop Mt. are all known from 

 Labrador and northward, and I shall expect to find P. epihydrum 

 this summer, when I shall spend three months between the 

 Straits of Belle Isle and Hudson Strait, a region of arctic and 

 sub-arctic flora. 



' Your P. polygonifolius, P. nitens, acutifolius, rutilus, and 

 some others are known from very few (often only one or two) 

 stations on this side of the Atlantic. May not the Hahfax 

 station for P. epihydum be a similarly isolated station for a 

 common North American plant, comparable with four stations 

 for Ranunculus reptans, Potentilla fruticosa, Moneses uniflora, 

 Euphrasia latifolia, Liparis Loiselii, Spiranthes Romanzoffiana, 

 Sisyrinchium angustifolium, Juncus filiformis, J. tenuis, Scheuch- 

 zeria palustris, Najas flexilis, Eriocaulon articulatum, Scirpus 

 americanus, S. nanus, Eriophorum gracile, Scirpus hudsonianus 

 (Eriophorum alpinum), Carex chordorrhiza, Hierochloe odorata, 

 Aspidium (Dryopteris) , cristatum, etc., most of which we count 

 among our very commonest plants, but which I understand are- 

 very local (hke Potamo9,eton epihydrum) with you ? 



* This is only a tentative answer, for I may not be able tO' 

 turn up P. epihydrus in Labrador this summer, but its alpine- 

 occurrence Gaspe suggests its polar origin.' 



The Rev. W. C. Hey gives a list of thirty- two species of Hydropori 

 found near West Ayton, Yorks., in the July ' Entomologist's Magazine/ 



The Presidential Address of Dr. Jonathan Hutchinson, F.R.S. to the 

 Museums' Association, is printed in the ' Museums' Journal ' for July^ 

 It is ' On Museum Education.' 



Naturalist, 



