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Rbodora 
JOURNAL OF 
THE NEW ENGLAND BOTANICAL CLUB 
Vol. 2 July, 1900 No. 19 
SOME JESUIT INFLUENCES UPON OUR NORTHEASTERN 
FLORA.! 
M. L. FERNALD. 
THE canoeman who makes camp at night or lands for his mid-day 
meal by the St. John or the Restigouche must observe how different 
are the plants about him from those with which he is familiar at home. 
Even those who in town lay no claim to botanical knowledge are im- 
pressed by the large proportion of unfamiliar wild flowers; while, to 
those who concern themselves primarily with such matters, the vegeta- 
tion of the upper St. John has been, since the return of its first botani- 
cal explorer, a constant source of problems. The scores of plants 
unknown elsewhere in New England are not alone,-however, in 
furnishing puzzling questions for the student of botanical geography, 
for on the gravelly shores with these unique northern plants are seen 
in great profusion many species which, about our cities and towns, are 
every-day roadside weeds. A returning canoeman whose eyes are ever 
open to the vegetation about him has recently written: * One of the 
last plants that we saw on the borders of the Grand River settlement 
was the campion-flower (.Szene Cucubalus). It was the first to attract 
our attention on the pebbly beaches of the Restigouche. It was almost 
constantly in sight on the whole course of the river. And yet it isnota 
native plant, but introduced on this continent from the Old World where 
it occupies wide areas from North Africa and India to the Arctic Ocean. 
It has evidently followed the footsteps of man, both as settler and explorer, 
for it is as abundant on the upper St. John as on the Restigouche." ? 
lSlightly modified from a paper read May, 1897, before the Natural History 
Society of New Brunswick. 
? G. U. Hay; The Restigouche — with notes especially on its flora (Bull. Nat. 
Hist. Soc. N. B. xiv. 18). 
