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the lower woods and valleys. Rubus Nutkanus, and Ribes 

 (426), including a tall Strepiopus, Thalictrum, and Smilacina, 

 inhabit rocky ground. Arrived at the highest crest of the pla- 

 teau, we find the Vaccinium in fruit, and the low banks of the 

 plains and woods robed in scarlet with the flowers of the pretty 

 Cantua (435), not unlike our Ipomopsis elegans. Its scarlet 

 colour is seen everywhere, if one steps out of the woods, 

 losing itself in the distance, or behind a black-burned pine- 

 trunk, appearing like fire ; hence, the Canadian calls this 

 flower, " fleur a feu," a translation of the Indian well-applied 

 name. When riding through these masses, one discovers very 

 many varieties in colour, from rose and pale pink (like our 

 Epacris) to bright orange and scarlet, even deep blood-red. 

 The white colour is here rarely met with. 



The many exsiccated rocky basins are now filled with Clin- 

 tonia elegans, Trifolium (472), the white Brodiea (437), the 

 latter, however, in somewhat shady, rocky, loamy places, 

 with Trautvetteria grandis, Nutt., which bears white flow- 

 ers, much resembling the T. palmata in the Mississippi valley. 

 These specimens were likewise lost, with several other more 

 or less rare plants. 



The recesses where in April the Calypso flourished, now 

 exhibit Chimaphila corymbosa in flower, with Goody era (595), 

 and higher up, the Pedicularis (434), and groups of Gnapha- 

 lium margaritaceum. On open, though shady, moist places, but 

 very widely scattered, appears now the parasite Pterospora (457) 

 in flower, the whole plant consisting of a scape 1-3 feet high, 

 scaly below, and from the middle ending in a slender raceme, 

 with yellowish-brown flowers, resinous and viscid, like the 

 stem and peduncles. This is a rare plant, but still more rare 

 seems to be the Epiphagus} 445, of which I found only one 

 specimen growing on the roots of an Abies in the same locality. 

 A. white Trifolium (659) characterizes the northerly slopes, 

 Wooming profusely even under the dense shrubbery of Vacci- 

 nium and Myginda. 



We will now leave the further details of this chapter, and 



