1869.] MATTHEW — ON PLANTS IN ACADIA. 153 



" Astragalus sp. ign. 

 " Oxytropis " " 

 " Artemisia borealis. 



" Canadensis. 



" Tanacetum Huronense. 

 " Vilfa Cuspidata." 



He also instances Astragalus Rohhinsii, Hedysarum boreale, 

 Nahalus racemosus, Primula Mistassinica, SoUdago Virgaurea 

 var. AJpina, and Tojieldia glutinosa, as plants of the same 

 district. 



" The whole region through which these plants are distributed 

 is covered by a thick growth of coniferous trees." 



So little is known of the flora of the northern counties of New 

 Brunswick, with the single exception of Kent, that we know of 

 the occurrence of but a limited number of these species on the 

 streams flowing to tlie Gulf, but nevertheless feel satisfied that 

 •the majority of them will yet be gathered there. The late Dr. 

 Robb met with Anemone Multifida on the Restigouche, and 

 Shepherdia Canadensis at Grand Falls, on the St. John River. 

 The last named species has also been gathered near Dalhousie. 

 Mr. Fowler has collected in the Gulf Counties Vaccinium Cana- 

 dense and Nardosmla palmata (common), the rare Juncus 

 Stygius, Carex lentiadaris, Cinna arundinacea var. peudula, 

 Triticum canimmi, and Elymus Mollis. Prof. Bailey observed 

 Allium Schaenoprasum during his descent of the Nepissiquit, 



Some of these, as well as the remaining species of the list 

 (except about half a dozen species still known only on the Upper 

 St. John,) have been gathered in the southern highlands. 



Near the outlet of the St. John River is a sheet of water, 

 known as the Kennebackasis Bay, which is as deep as Behrings 

 Straits, and deeper than those which divide France from 

 England. Here the yachtsman may sail for 20 miles without 

 starting sheet, and the lover of the picturesque will see several 

 clifi"s and bold hills 400—600 feet high rising from the water's edge. 

 Here also he will find the presence of man indicated by sawmills, 

 factories, shipyards, broad cultivated fields, and scattered villages, 

 whither the citizens of St. John resort in summer, not to avoid 

 the heat, but to escape the fog. 



In this basin the spring floods of the St. John River, unable to 

 find free egress to the ocean, are pent up until the middle of 



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