COPTIS TRIFOLIA. 
Gold thread. 
PLATE V, 
Tue dark sphagnous swamps, which in the 
northern parts of our continent are covered with 
a perpetual shade of firs, cedars and pines, are 
the favourite haunts of this elezant little ever- 
green. The coldest situations seem to. favour its 
growth, and it flourishes alike in the morasses of 
Canada and of Siberia. On our highest mountain 
tops it plants itself in little bogs and watery clefis 
of rocks, and perfects its fructification in the short 
summer allowed it in those situations. I haye 
gathered it upon the summit of the Ascutney in 
Vermont, and on the Alpine regions of the White 
mountains. It is here that in company with the 
Diapensia and Azaleas of Lapland, the blue Men- 
ziesia, the fragrant Alpine Holcus, and other plants 
