1 8 Bulletin of the Natural History Society. 
Counties by Prof. Fowler and Mr. R. Chalmers. The Flora of 
the central and western portion of the Province is comparatively 
unknown, having scarcely been looked upon yet by the eye of the 
botanist. 
The contributions and donations to this Society having refer- 
ence to our Flora, so far as we can ascertain, are as follows : A 
list of the Plants of New Brunswick, collected previous to 1864, 
and read before the Society on 8th April of that year, by Mr. R. 
Matthew ; an original and interesting paper by Mr. G. F. Mat- 
thew, “ On the Occurrence of Arctic and Western Plants in Con- 
tinental Acadia in 1869;” and during the past year a valuable 
Herbarium added to the Museum by Mr. G. U. Hay. This Her- 
barium consists of over three hundred and fifty species of our 
phoenogamous plants, besides specimens of nearly all our grasses, 
sedges, and ferns, the whole mounted and labelled. To these Mr. 
Chalmers adds a considerable number of plants, representatives 
of the Flora of the northern section of the Province. Mr. James 
Vroom has recently sent in a collection from Charlotte County, 
some of them rare and valuable; Mr. J. Moser, specimens from 
York County; and Mr. Arthur I. Trueman a number of plants 
collected chiefly in Westmorland County; so that our Herbarium 
now represents a Flora of nearly six hundred species. 
The thanks of the Committee are due to Mr. J. Moser, of 
Nashwaak; Mr. J. Brittain, of Petitcodiac; Mr. A. I. Trueman, 
of St. John; Mr. G. H. Burnett, of Keswick, and other gentle- 
men, for specimens collected in their neighborhood. 
In the following catalogue of plants we have used the num- 
bers in Prof. Fowler’s lists. 
Geo. U. Hay, 
Robert Chalmers, 
Jas. Vroom, 
Comniitiee on Botany of Nat. Hist. Society of N B. 
St. ^yth, 1882. 
