. The Canadian field-naturalist. 142 The Canadian Field-Naturalist [Vol. 61 "Concerning the finding of the hackberry near Berthier, this tree was found by Mr. Brule. Since my return to Quebec I dis- cussed this matter with Mr. Deschamps, who was formerly, as you know, Director of the Berthierville Nursery. He told me that this tree is faiiiy common on the Sorel Islands and known there under the French name of "Bois inconnu" or "Arbre a bois inconnu" or even "Orme Batard". For several years after I left Berthierville, in 1938, Mr. Des- champs collected the see
. The Canadian field-naturalist. 142 The Canadian Field-Naturalist [Vol. 61 "Concerning the finding of the hackberry near Berthier, this tree was found by Mr. Brule. Since my return to Quebec I dis- cussed this matter with Mr. Deschamps, who was formerly, as you know, Director of the Berthierville Nursery. He told me that this tree is faiiiy common on the Sorel Islands and known there under the French name of "Bois inconnu" or "Arbre a bois inconnu" or even "Orme Batard". For several years after I left Berthierville, in 1938, Mr. Des- champs collected the seeds to propagate this tree in the Nursery but without success. In short this species was not long ago fairly common here and there in this part of the country, in the vicinity of the River but did not seem to reproduce easily under these ; This extension of range of roughly fifty miles from St. Helen's Island, Montreal, Longueuil, etc., where it has been frequently reported, to the present stations, should not longer go unrecorded. It illustrates once more the curious interrupted distribution of this species. — HERBERT GROH, Division of Botany and Plant Pathology, Science Service, Department of Agriculture, Ottawa. Trout with abnormally long fins. — The figure shown below is a photograph of a brook trout Salvelinus fontinalis with abnor- mally long fins, this trout was caught by Mr. Bertram Dunn at Ocean Pond near Bonavista, Newfoundland, on June 7, 1946. The fish was photographed after it was brought to the Newfoundland Government Laboratory and placed in formalin. The bending of the body also occurred in formalin. Fig. 1. Trout with abnormally long iins. Standard length to end of scales Greatest total length Greatest length, pectoral fin Greatest length, pelvic fin Greatest length, dorsal fin Greatest length, anal fin Greatest length, caudal fin Long-finned brook-trout Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have b
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