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next district treated by Harshberger is the “Lake District,” “the 
region west of Lake Champlain and the Ottawa River representing 
the drainage basin of the Great Lakes,” and its first subdivision is 
the “Interlacustrine Area....the country immediately surrounding 
the Great Lakes and other glacial lakes west of the Ottawa River” 
(from which it is inferred that the author classes the Great Lakes as 
“glacial lakes”) Certainly the flora of the Great Lake country 
ought to be so well known that no serious stumbling is possible. 
But when we read the first page of discussion we find an even more 
surprising inaccuracy than in the treatment of the more easterly areas. 
In 1868, in one of his discussions of the Canadian flora, Dr. A. T. 
Drummond, comparing the plants of Quebec and Ontario as a unit 
(Canada of that day) with the northern United States as a unit, said: 
“Common to Ontario and Quebec [as a unit] on the one hand, and 
to the Northern United States on the other, there are no less than 
1,591 flowering and filicoid plants.....There are... .eighty-five 
species which are without representatives across the border. Of 
these, however, it should be specially observed nineteen are mani- 
festly introduced and there are therefore only sixty-six indigenous 
plants which, as between the two provinces [as a unit] and the North- 
ern States, are peculiar to the former." The striking feature about 
Drummond’s list was that it consisted chiefly of plants known only 
from cold sea-cliffs or mountain summits of Gaspé, Anticosti, the 
Mingan Islands or the Straits of Belle Isle or from the shores of Hudson 
Bay, areas which for the most part belong in Harshberger's “ Sub-Arctic 
Forest Region," “Labrador District” and “ Hudson-Bay-Keewatin 
District." But Harshberger, seizing upon Drummond's list of sea- 
cliff and alpine plants which had been found (or were supposed by 
Drummond to have been found) somewhere in Quebec or Ontario, 
reproduces it under his “Forest Formations" of the “ Interlacustrine 
Area” as a list of the forest species of the Great Lake region! 
[p. 391] *In the north and northwest [regions of Ontario] the 
species are identic with those found in Quebec. . .. Common to Ontario 
and Quebec are eighty-five species not found south of the Interla- 
custrine Area. The indigenous species include the following:” 
[Then follows Drummond's list of plants (with interpolations which hardly 
increase its accuracy), a list of plants which actually do not grow within hun- 
dreds of miles of the “Interlacustrine Area," and for the most part are not 
found in both Ontario and Quebec. The list is too long for reproduction here. 
However, the fact that it is anything but representative of the forests of the 
Great Lake region is sufficiently evident from a few examples.] 
* Anemone narcissiflora L." 
[A species of the Alaskan region, following the Rocky Mountains very 
locally to Colorado; not found in either Ontario or Quebec (see Macoun, Cat. 
Can. Pl.; Gray, Syn. Fl.: etc.). In some of the earlier publications (for 
example, Reeks, Flowering Plants & Ferns of Newfoundland) it was reported 
