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containing many kinds of vegetables, including fine cucumbers. 

 At Isle a la Crosse (English River) potatoes still in the ground 

 on the 22nd September, there not having been any frost up to 

 that date. Mr. Selwyn, Director of the Canadian Geological 

 Survey, is reported to have brought down samples which will 

 doubtless appear at the Centennial Exhibition ; viz. : Spring 

 wheat from Fort Chipewyan (Athabasca Lake), lat. 58° 45', 

 weighing sixty-eight pounds to the bushel — sown May 22nd, 

 reaped in August. Barley from the same place weighing fifty- 

 eight pounds to the bushel ; and oats from Fort St. John on 

 the Peace River, on the verge of the Rocky Mountains. The 

 leading vegetable forms observed by Mr. Macoun in the Prairie 

 section around Dunvegan, are as under : — 

 Anemone Virginiana. Oxytropis splendens. 



" patens. Elseagnus argentea (Silver-berry..) 



Geum triflorum (Bennet.) Vicia Americana (Vetch). 



Potentilla arguta. Artemisia frigida. 



" Pennsylvania. " discolor. 



Amelanchier Canadensis, (Service Bromus Kalmii. 



berry.) Triticum repens, &c. 



Achillea millefolium, (Yarrow or Aira casspitosa. 



Millefoil). Lathyrus ochroleucus. 



Rosa blanda. Foa serotina. 



Hedysarum boreale. Stipa Richardsonii. 



Solidago (Golden Rod), two species. " membrancea. 

 Aster multiflorus. Trisetum subspicatum. 



" lasvis. Calamagrostis Canadensis. 



Orthocarpus luteus " stricta. 



Troximon glaucum. 



Mr. Macoun adds that every plant on this list grows also at 

 Edmonton, on the Saskatchewan, and all grow where wheat 

 will come to perfection. But nothing, perhaps, can more satis- 

 factorily prove the true prairie character of the country than 

 the fact mentioned by Mr. Macoun, that at Dunvegan he found 

 growing the Disc-leaved Cactus (fipunita Missouriensis) which is 

 always indicative of a dry locality with a considerable degree of 

 mean annual heat. The whole of this region once abounded with 

 herds of Bison, as still do parts of the Saskatchewan ; but the 

 remnants are now found only in remote places on the outskirts 

 of the Rocky Mountains. Other beasts of the chase, such as 

 the Rein-deer and the Moose are still numerous ; while in the 

 mountainous parts the Rein-deer, the Goat, the Mountain Sheep, 

 the ordinary varieties of the Bear (black, brown and grizzly), 

 &c, abound. 



