PRELIMINAKY LIST OF THE PLANTS OP NEW BRUNSWICK. 
Compiled by Rev. James Fowler, M.A. 
With assistance of Members of N. B. Natural History Society. 
HISTORICAL ISTOTE. 
HE writer has been unable to obtain any published information 
on the Flora of New Brunswick of earlier date than 1862. 
The name of the Province occurs a few times in the works of Pursh, 
Hooker, Gray and others, but only in connexion with the distribution 
of some particular species of plant. During the above-mentioned 
year there appeared “ A Description of the Forest and Ornamental 
Trees of New Brunswick, by D. R. Munro, St. John, N. B.” As 
the author proves himself innocent to the last degree of all knowledge 
of Botany, his descriptions are simply amusing exhibitions of the 
power of imagination.^ On February 12th, 1864, Prof. L. W. Bailey 
read an interesting paper entitled “Notes on the Geology and Botany 
of New Brunswick” before the Natural History Society, which was 
subsequently published in the Canadian Naturalist for April of the 
same year. The author describes the character of the country from 
the mouth of the Tobique to its source, and thence down the Nepisi- 
quit to Bathurst, giving partial lists of the plants met with on the 
route. The reading of this paper gave an impulse to the Botanic 
talent of the Society, and at the following April meeting (April 8, 
1864) Mr. Robert Matthew read a “List of the Plants of New 
Brunswick,” but, unfortunately, it was never jiublished. (See Bulle- 
tin Nat. Hist. Soc., I, p. 18.) 
^ He describes three species of Oak, two of Elm, three of Beech, and 
three of Ash as being abundant. Ilis Bilberry (Yaccinium) grows into 
a tree thirty feet and upwards, and Dogwood (Cornus Florida) is abun- 
dant, attaining a height of thirty feet. He finds two species of Moose 
Wood — the Round-leaf and the Notch-leaf Moose Wood. 
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