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Botany of the Upper St. John. 
who devotes his leisure to the study and cultivation of ferns, for 
bringing this plant from its obscurity, and making it known for the 
first time in New Brunswick. While Mr. Jack was in Woodstock, 
in September, he noticed this fern amongst the plants in Mrs. 
Connell’s garden, and on inquiry, he was told that it had been found 
in the woods, a short distance from town, the previous autumn. 
He was incredulous, as the fern, though common in England, is 
rare, or I may say unknown hitherto, in N. E. America. A search 
for additional specimens proved fruitless, but Mr. Jack writes me 
that since his return to Halifax, he has received several specimens 
of the plant which Mr. Sutton was enabled to find after a more 
diligent search. One of these specimens, dried, Mr. Jack has been 
kind enough to present to this Society. The only stations in Gray’s 
Botany for this fern are, one or two places in Western New York, 
and in Ontario, so that its discovery as far east as New Brunswick 
is a most important one. 
Another fern which Mr. Jack sends us is also new to the Mari- 
time Provinces — Asjyidium Goldianuni. He found it near Wood- 
stock in September. The frond of this fern is broadlj ovate, the 
pinnae very long, and the fruit dots very near the mid-vein, quite 
different in this respect from Aspidiuin marginale which has the 
fruit dots on the margin of the divisions of the pinnae. Mr. Jack 
informs me that a Botrychium which he found at Ptapide de Femme 
near Grand Falls, has been pronounced by Prof. Lawson of Halifax 
B. ternatuniy var. rutaefolium. I have not seen this fern. 
Mr. Jack’s visit to Woodstock was a memorable one, therefore, and 
the cordial thanks of the Society are due him, not only for the speci- 
mens sent us, but for the value of the discoveries made. 
Note. — In the district which I have explored the past ew years 
— the neighborhood of St. John City, Lower Kennebecasis, and 
along the course of the St. John River — the following plants, marked 
as rare or occasional in previous lists, have been detected not 
infrequently: — Tussilago farfara (very abundant weed about the City), 
Viola lanceolata, Hyoscyamus niger (ballast), Nuphar luteum, var. 
pumilum (very abundant lower course of Salmon River, Queens Co., 
also at Keswick, — Mr. Brittain reports it from Petitcodiac), 
Trifolium procumbens (noticed it this year as far inland as Prince 
