REPORT OF THE: COMMITTEE ON BOTANY. 
The Committee on Botany report that they have been en- 
gaged during the past week in determining plants which have 
been collected in several sections of the Province during the past 
two seasons of 1880 and 1881. They have found their labors 
comparatively easy, having been guided greatly by the valuable 
lists published in 1879 and early in 1880 by Prof Jas. Fowler. 
In addition to the plants named in these lists they find that about 
FORTY species new to the Province have been detected, and that 
many plants which were supposed to be rare, or limited to certain 
localities, are more widely distributed and occur in different sec- 
tions of New Brunswick. In the list appended hereto the names 
of these species and details regarding the distribution of some of 
the rarer forms will be given, and other facts will be brought out, 
showing that in several districts the botany of our country is now 
being attentively studied by the increasing numbers of amateurs 
and others interested in the subject. 
But while viewing with much satisfaction the progress made 
in arriving at a knowledge of our Flora during the past few years, 
which is largely due to the zeal and untiring labors of Prof Fow- 
ler, and the enthusiasm he awoke in a few others, your Commit- 
tee would recall the fact that the botany of the Province, taken as 
a whole, is yet far from being known. No section of it, indeed, 
has been systematically studied, except, perhaps, the County of 
Kent, where Mr. Fowler resided for many years. The ambitious 
and enterprising student will therefore find here, for many years 
to come, a most inviting field for his investigations. Besides the 
County of Kent, the only districts which have been at all exam- 
ined botanically are: portions of York County in the vicinity of 
Fredericton and Keswick, by Prof Bailey, Prof Fowler, and 
others; Saint John County by Messrs. G. F. and R. Matthew, 
Prof. P'owLER, and Mr. G. U. Hay ; certain parts of Charlotte 
County by Mr. Jas. Vroom ; and of Restigouche and Gloucester 
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