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BULLETIN OF THE NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY. 
ADDITIONS TO THE PLANTS OF NEW BRUNSWICK. 
By G. U. Hay, Chairman Botanical Committee. 
During the past two seasons about forty species and varieties 
of flowering plants new to New Brunswick have been reported, 
while additional new localities have been found for a number 
that have been hitherto considered rare. 
In the latter part of June last, Mr. M. L. Fernald, of the Gray 
Herbarium, Cambridge, Mass., spent a day in St. John, part of 
which was devoted to an examination of plants on • the Ballast 
Wharf. In the afternoon of the same day, with two members 
of our Botanical Committee, some hours were spent in Rockwood 
Park investigating the plants. In both places the investigation 
proved of considerable interest, and a few new varieties were 
added to our list of introduced plants. 
A week later I had the great pleasure of meeting with the 
Josselyn Botanical Society of Maine at Fort Kent. Nearly a week 
was spent in examining the flora of the meadows and forests on 
both sides of the St. John river in that vicinity. Several plants 
new to New Brunswick were found, which are recorded in the 
list following, and a few are recorded separately, which were 
found on the Maine side of the boundary. These are to be look- 
ed for in New Brunswick, where their occurrence is probable. 
Mr. Fernald’s exact knowledge of the plants of that region 
proved of the greatest service to the other botanists of the party, 
and especially to the New Brunswick representative. Indeed, 
the members of the Josselyn Club were all very generous in ex- 
tending their investigations into this province, and both sides of 
the river came in for a fair share of attention, a kind of pleasant 
and unselfish reciprocity which might be more widely imitated 
in the relations between the two countries. 
The botanists of the Atlantic Provinces of Canada — New 
Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, and Eastern 
Quebec — might well form a society like the Josselyn Botanical 
