THE AMERICAN BOTANIST 



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ALONG THK MARGIN OF THE LAKE 



Lake Metigoshe, lying partly across the international 

 houndarv. provides about twelve miles north of Bottineau, a 

 summer resort of no small importance to the surrounding 

 country. The writer spent one Sunday (July 7, 1917) col- 

 lecting near the road about half way between Bottineau and 

 the lake. This had been graded recently, furnishing a good 

 road through the hills. In the small hours of the morning 

 autos began to pass on their way from the surrounding country 

 and neigboring towms to spend the day at the lake. During 

 the day there was scarcely a time when the hum of passing 

 cars was absent. 



This road provides an interesting cross section of the 

 "niounlains." For some three miles from Bottineau it crosses 

 a level plain, the floor of glacial Lake Souris. Then by a 

 gradual winding incline, it mounts somiC of the lower hills 

 and continues northward toward the lake. At one point it 

 crosses a high broad hill from which a considerable veiw^ of 

 the surrounding country is obtained but most of the way it 

 winds between the ponds and up and down over the lower 

 hills. Approaching the lake a detour is made around one end. 



