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mirror, lay nestling below among the dark green woods of a 

 depression, some hundreds of feet above the river, which 

 wound along in the curving valley beneath, and from the 

 opposite side of which the hills sloped away up to the south-west, 

 verdant with the White Pine (Pi.nus Strohus), and various hard- 

 wood trees. In the ascent from the river, near which a swamp 

 afforded s-peciinens of Meadow Rue (^Thalictrum Cornuti), 

 Flowering, Interrupted and Sensitive Ferns (Osnmuda regalis 

 0. Clui/.oniana. and Oiiodea sensibilis), we first passed a 

 thicket of Beaked Hazel {Corylus rostrata), and Red-berried 

 Elder (Samhucus ptibcns) ; then up a wooded steep, the trees 

 of which shaded the creeping vines of the Partridge Berry 

 {Mitchella repens), and beautiful May-flower, or Trailing 

 Arbutus (Epigxa repens), the floral emblem of >«ova Scotia. 

 From the edge of the forest, low Red Cedar {Jimipariis Vir- 

 glniana Var. humllis), and Bearberry bushes (^Arctostaphylos 

 Uva-ursi), carried vegetation a little further up the rocks, until, 

 at the summit of the ridge referred to, almost the only jtlants to 

 be obtained were the Bog Bilberry (Vacciuium uUgiuosum'), 

 Alpine Azalea (^Loiseleuria procumbcns, Desv.), and Mountain 

 Cinque-foil (^PotmtiUa tridentatd.) Along the top of the rocks, 

 quantities of crisp Reindeer, Iceland and Hedwig's Hoary Moss 

 {^Chidonia rungifcrina, Cetraria Islandlca and Iledwigia 

 ciliata) crunched beneath the feet, while budding tufts of the 

 graceful Harebell (^Campanulit rotundifolia), waved from the 

 fissures in the clifl^s below. A solitary bunch of the pretty 

 Fragrant Fern (^Aspidlum fntgnms, Swartz) was procured from 

 the cleft of a shaded rock on the north side of the mountain, near 

 its summit. 



At a bend in the river below the mountain, I observed the 

 broad leaves of the Pond Lily (^Nuphar advena) floating 

 on the surface of the deep quiet pool, overshadowed by the 

 spreading branches of a Black Birch (^Betula lenta.) Several 

 miles above this, the Butterwort (^Pingulcula vulgaris), 

 dotted the cracks in the damp rocks along the shore, and on the 

 moist banks I gathered the Enchanter's Nightshade {Circma 

 alpina), with its pellucid stems, the Twisted-stalk (^Streptopus 

 amplexifoUus), Blue-eyed Grass {^Slsyrinchium Bermudiana), 

 Purple Avens (^Geum rivale). and the Potentilla Norvegica, 

 which in the woods always looks as if it had strayed from some 

 more civilized regions. The thicket beyond was bordered by 



