Appendix — (Report of (Botanical Committee . 79 
REPORT OF BOTANICAL COMMITTEE. 
The following list embraces additional localities for those 
plants marked rare, or those for which only one or two stations 
are given in Fowler’s list of 1885; also those new to the Province, 
found during the past season. The latter are printed in full- 
face type. It will be seen that nearly twenty species and 
varieties of flowering plants, new to the Province, have been 
found during the season. Such investigations are every 
year leading to increased and more accurate knowledge of the 
distribution of our flora. Our botanists are by no means 
confining their attention alone to plant distribution in this 
Province; one member of the committee has published a 
list of plants of what must be considered the most interesting 
botanical section of the Province; others are giving their 
attention to the cryptogamous flora of the Province. 
A closer scientific study of our plants with their economic 
value is pressing itself upon the attention of our botanists. 
The student of our plants should be the co-worker of the 
horticulturist and agriculturist in all those questions in which 
the latter are deeply concerned: the better protection of fruit 
and other trees from the ravages of fungi, better plans for the 
extermination of weeds, the increased cultivation of our 
native plants and fruits, a more thorough knowledge of the 
qualities of our medicinal plants. These and other practical 
questions are becoming of more and more interest to our 
botanists, and indicate what results may be accomplished 
bv a practical application of plant study. 
The numbers below correspond to those in Fowler’s list 
of 1885. 
GEO. XL HAY, 
J. YROOM, 
JOHN BRITTAIN, 
Botanical 
Committee . 
