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On the 10th June we left Belleville by stage for Bridgewater, 

 a village about thirty miles back. The road for the first twenty 

 miles passes through a beautiful farming country, with here and 

 there a grove of Maples and Beech (Fagiis ferruginea). In 

 clumps along the fences, the Dogwood {Cornits stolonifera), with 

 its red stems and newly-opened flowers, was occasionally to be 

 seen, and just before reaching the bridge over the Moira, we saw 

 the May-Apple {^Podopliyllum jjeltatinn') with its umbrella-like 

 leaf. Next morning found us among the Laurentian hills at. 

 Bridgewater, with the river Scutomatto ("turbulent water") 

 rolling past, in the low ground near which we found two species of 

 Crow-foot (^Ranunculus recurvafus et ahortivvs) : a Meadow-Rue 

 (Thalictrum dioicum). the Cranberry Tree {Viburni'm Opulus), an 

 Elder (Samhucus pubens), the Choke-cherry {Prumis Virginiana) 

 and Red Cherry (P. Ptnnsijlvanica) were in full bloom, and a little 

 liigher up, the showy Bunch-berry (Cornus Canadensis), the 

 Service-berry (AmelancMer Canadensis), the Barren Strawberry 

 {Waldsteinia fragarioides), the Indian Turnip (Arisaema tri- 

 phyllum) and the Wild Sarsparilla (Aralia nudicaulis). Close to 

 the river the Star-Lily (Smilacina stellata) grew, its starry 

 flowers looking all the whiter over the black mud, and a short 

 distance from the bank several species of Horsetail were waving 

 like plumes in the breeze, the most common being Equisetum 

 sylvaticum. Here and there a Trillium (71 gnindiflorum) 

 was expanding its petals to receive th) sunshine after being 

 watered by nearly a week's rain, and two Violets ( Viola cucul- 

 lata et hlanda) dotted the meadow with their tiny flowers. On 

 tlie road-side some of the usual stragglers (Ci/noglossum officinale^ 

 VerhasGum Thajysus and Capsella Bursa-pastoris) were growing 

 in abundance, as if preferring the society of man to the retirement 

 of the forest ; and hard by in a swamp I gathered the three 

 Flowering Ferns (Osmunda regalis, 0. Claytoniana and 0, cin- 

 namomea), the fertile fronds of the last standing straight as 

 soldiers on duty. Alongside these grew the Sensitive Fern 

 (Onoclea sensibilis), and, where the ground was dryer, the Bracken 

 (Pteris aquiUna). On a ridge of granitic gneiss to the East, we 

 found the Fly-Honeysuckle {Lonicera ciliata) ^ the Wild Gooseberry 

 {Ribes Cy:iosbati), the Fringe-Jointed Knotweed {Polygonum 

 cilinode) and the Sheep Sorrel (Rumex Acetosella). On the highest 

 point of the rock, the common Polypody (Po^ypodium vulgare) 

 seemed to find suJBScient nourishment to grow quite luxuriantly, 



