GEOGRAPHY AND NATURAL HISTORY OF THE TOBIQUE. 39 



orchids brought to England, when an interest began to be 

 taken in the cultivation of the plants of this order. 



Also the yellow lady-slipper, the Arethusa — A hulhosa ; 

 a small lily — the Tofieldia glutinosa. The wild calla, C. 

 jpalustris grows in very wet places, as where streams run 

 through a bog. 



Fifthly. — The Bogans. This word Bogan I have only 

 heard used on the Tobique; it means a back-water creek such 

 as are common among intervals and lowlands on the St. John 

 and all its tributaries. In these muddy and stagnant creeks 

 grow the common and the smaller yellow water-lilies, the 

 water crowfoot and the bladderwort. 



Among other plants noticed on the river is the curious 

 strawberry blight, with its large heads of soft, juicy flowers, 

 which I found in the burnt railway clearing through a grown- 

 over swamp. A resident of the Tobique told me it is called 

 Indian paint, and that it is used by the Indians to stain their 

 baskets. On my way up the Tobique I saw numbers of the 

 beautiful purple clematis in bloom along the St, John, from 

 Woodstock to Perth, but on the Tobique none could be seen. 



The butternut, common on the St. John, does not asce ; 

 the Tobique, and the same with the oak. 



The hemlock, I have been told, does not extend more 

 than twenty-five miles up the river, or at least does not grow 

 abundantly above that distance. 



Botrychium lunaroides, an uncommon plant about St. 

 John, grows very commonly on the Tobique. Botrychium 

 matricaricBfolium, a rarer species, also occurs. 



Several species of land snails were collected. Of fresh 

 water clams I only saw one kind in the river, and that a com- 

 mon one. The river snails, except a couple of small species, 

 are common on the St. John Eiver, even as far down as Ken- 

 nebecasis bay. 



Lymnma catescopium is more abundant on the lower St. 

 John, but I never found such large specimens of it there, as> 

 on the Tobique. 



