. The Canadian field-naturalist. Natural history. 1995 Pringle: Exploration of the Flora of Canada 327. Frere Marie-Victorin on lie de la Vache (Minganie), 3 August 1928 holding the Mingan Islands Thistle, Cirsium minga- nense, an endemic to the Mingan Islands which he had described in 1925. Photograph courtesy of Photograph archives, Montreal Botanical Garden. was a few years longer in coming. It was in franco- phone Quebec that phytogeography and vascular-plant taxonomy first burgeoned in twenti- eth-century Canada. Foremost in this renaissance was Canada's best-known botanist after the seni
. The Canadian field-naturalist. Natural history. 1995 Pringle: Exploration of the Flora of Canada 327. Frere Marie-Victorin on lie de la Vache (Minganie), 3 August 1928 holding the Mingan Islands Thistle, Cirsium minga- nense, an endemic to the Mingan Islands which he had described in 1925. Photograph courtesy of Photograph archives, Montreal Botanical Garden. was a few years longer in coming. It was in franco- phone Quebec that phytogeography and vascular-plant taxonomy first burgeoned in twenti- eth-century Canada. Foremost in this renaissance was Canada's best-known botanist after the senior Macoun, frere Marie-Victorin (ne [Joseph-Louis-] Conrad Kirouac, 1885-1944, on whom see Anonymous and Gauvreau 1938; Kucyniak 1946; Brouillet 1985; and other papers in Bulletin de la Societe d'animation du Jardin et de VInstitut botaniques (Montreal) 9(3); Chartrand et al. 1987; McCready 1989; Charbonneau 1994-1995; and many other publications cited by Stafleu and Cowan, 1981 and Arsenault 1985; on his herbarium see Boivin 1980). After seventeen years as a sec- ondary-school teacher, during which time he had studied botany with the help of his friend frere Rolland-Germain (below) and through extensive correspondence with Fernald and other leading plant taxonomists, Marie-Victorin was called upon in 1920 to establish the botany department in the newly autonomous Universite de Montreal ("I'lnstitut botanique"; on its early history and sev- eral of its faculty and students see Marie-Victorin 1941). He also qualified for a doctorate from that university, with a dissertation on the ferns of Quebec. This was followed by similar treatises on the clubmosses, horsetails, gymnosperms, Liliflorae (= Liliales), and Araceae—groups in which con- spicuous intraspecific variation and teratology are common — and by several lesser monographs. Marie-Victorin had botanized extensively in the vicinities of Quebec City and Montreal and had published several botanical papers before t
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