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since been carefully examined and compared with those so 

 named by Dr. Morong and they are undoubtedly the same spe- 

 cies. On our way to Mount Wissick we passed over a shallow 

 portion of the lake and a better place to collect water plants 

 could not readily be found. The bottom was in some places 

 gravelly and in others of sandy clay. The water was beauti- 

 fully clear, but two or three feet in depth. We found here five 

 Potamogetois: P, pcctinatus, P, gramincus, P, ainplifolius, P, na- 



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taus and P. perfoliatus, the delicate Ranunculus aquai 

 trichophyllos, and two species of CJiara. Here and there the 

 spikes of the great Bulrush, Scirpus lacustris, rose six or 

 seven feet above the surface of the w^ater. 



Most beautiful of all were the MyriopJiyllums; one of these, 

 verticillatu))i grew near our camping place in great masses and 

 we could look down into the clear w^ater and trace the long, 

 feathery unbranchcd stems until they reached the sand, some 

 seven or eight feet below. 



Another species, more slender and growing In much shal- 

 lower w^atcr^ we have since determined as MyriopJiyllum altcrnu 

 floruni. Attention has been called to this Interesting species by 

 Dr. Morong In a previous number of the Bulletin, (xiv. 51.) 

 where he states that it has been found in Lake Memphremagog, 

 Canada, by Mr. J. R. Churchill, but previously had been col- 

 lected no nearer to us than Greenland. 



Well pleased with our morning's spoils, w^e paddled on a mile 

 or so further, until we found a good camping place, when we 

 disembarked and soon started for the top of '* la grossc montagne 



Our trail led up through the usual growth of balsam, white 

 spruce, diW^ Betula papyri f era \ here and there the ledges were 

 luxuriously carpeted with Cladonia rangcriferina. Higher up 

 we found dozens of specimens of Habenaria Hookeriana, and 

 even more abundant was Corallorhiza mtdtiflora. We also 

 found some few spikes of C, innata. About 550 feet above the 

 lake we found some plants of Epiga^a repcns (the first we had 

 seen In Canada) surrounded by Vaccinium Pennsylvanicnm ^ 

 Kalmia angustifolia and Ledum latifolium, and shaded by black 

 and white spruces. Among the crannies of the upper ledges we 

 found Woodsia Ilvensis^ W, hypcrhorca.Pcllcca gracilis and Aspi- 

 dium fragrans. 



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