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went first directly to New York, thence to New Haven, and finally 

 to Albany, where he arrived on the 14th June. On the 18th 

 we find him at Saratoga, and on the 20th he embarked on Lake 

 Champlain at Whitehall. The remainder of this month was 

 employed in examining the vegetation on the shores of the lake, 

 which he crossed several times. In his Flora, mention is 

 made of a great number of plants which he found in this region.^ 

 On the 30th of June, Michaux reached Montreal, where he spent 

 ten days in collecting the plants of the environs. On the 1st of 

 July, he tells us he botanized on the mountain. '^ On the 3rd, in 

 the country and the low meadows," and " on Sunday the 8th, in 

 the wood of Lachine, for a league along the river-side." In these 

 excursions he collected the following plants, which are marked in 

 his herbarium as having been collected about Montreal : 



Scirpus sj>at7iaceus, Michx. ; Elodea Canadensis, Michx. ; Poa 

 compressa^ Linn.; Scutellaria 2^arvula, ^iiahx.. ] Oxalis cornicu- 

 lata, Linn. ; Hypericum macrocarpum, Michx. ; Acalypha Vir- 

 ginica, Linn. ; Zantlioxylum fraxineum, Willd. 



On the 11th June Michaux left for Quebec; but adverse 

 winds obliged him to put in at Sorel and at Batiscan, where he 

 made collections. In the latter locality he found Scheuchzeria 

 palusti'is, luimn.', Triglochin maritimum, Jjinn. ', Drosera longi- 

 folia, Linn. 



He reached Quebec on the IGth July, and remained there a 

 fortnight, in which time he made several excursions in the 

 environs, visiting the Falls of Montmorency, Lorette (probably La 

 Jeune Lorette), and botanized in the forest on the right bank of 

 the river St. Charles. As the season was advancing, he now 

 made arrangements for his journey to Hudson's Bay. Engaging 

 as an interpreter a young half-breed, who had been three years 

 with the Indians, he started for the Saguenay. The following 

 extracts from his notes will show his route : 



* It would be superfluous to furnish lists of plants whose names and 

 localities are found in the Flora of Michaux. When therefore in this 

 narrative I give a list of plants found by our botrnist in any locality, it 

 will be understood to include only those which have not been mentioned 

 in his Flora as there occurring ; but which are given in his Herbarium,, 

 or in his manuscript notes as having been found in that locality. For 

 the convenience of reference, however, I give in the following manner, 

 the pages where the plants not here named will be found mentioned : 



Flora Boreali-Americaua, in Canada, ad ripas lacus Champlain, voL 

 i, fol. 47, 75, 136, 153, 304 ; vol. ii, fol. 28, 198, 227, 245. 



