REPORT OF COUNCIL. 
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Nova Scotia in comparing the Silurian and Devonian rocks 
on the two sides of the Bay of Fundy. 
Dr. J. M. Clark, director of the Geological Survey of the 
State of New York, has been collecting the Devonian and Silurian 
faunas of Gaspe and the Bay Chaleur, and has (1907) published 
figures and descriptions of a number of new species from Dal- 
housie, etc. He advocates the Eo-Devonian age of the Dalhousie 
fossils as being of Lower Helderberg age. This group (Lower 
Helderberg) is still by many geologists regarded as the top of 
the Silurian. 
G. F. Matthew, Chairman. 
Botany. 
A well arranged set of native lichens, chiefly from Grand 
Manan, collected and named by Professor W. G. Farlow, of 
Harvard University, and presented by him to Mr. James Vroom, 
of St. Stephen, has been donated by the latter to our Society. 
They form a good model collection for any of our students who 
may wish to study this attractive and least known part of our 
flora. 
Additions to the list of New Brunswick fungi will be found 
on another page. 
A few weeds, becoming more widespread each season, have 
been noticed in the southern part of the province during the 
past season. The most dangerous and persistent of these belong 
to the Hawkweed family, of which there has been noticed near 
Ingleside — and it has been reported from other parts of the 
province — the Orange Hawkweed ( Hieracium aurantiacum L.) 
called also from its fiery orange-red flowers the Devil’s-paint- 
brush. Another species of this group is the Yellow-devil 
(• Hieracium prcealtum Vill.) which produces small yellow flowers. 
A third, reported by Dr. Fletcher from this province, is the 
Branching Hawkweed {Hieracium cladanthum Arvet-Louve). 
These and a few other foreign members of the same family are 
extremely pernicious and persistent weeds. Unlike our native 
