THE RESTIfiOUCHE — WITH NOTES ON ITS FLORA. 15 



And yet in that whole settlement there was not a 

 sliade tree worthy the name, but instead a mournful line 

 ot wretched dwellings strung along the road. The man 

 had been swallowed up in the wood chopper and he 

 thinks only of chopping down the native growths, 

 clearing up the vines and trees and shrubbery and 

 sacrificing everything to present utility. He begrudges 

 a few inches of soil to the rightful owners, who would 

 thankfully bless him every day of his busy life for sparing 

 them. But instead of thinking of the tree as a friend 

 the settler looks upon it as an enemy, one that must be 

 rooted out and destroyed. And tree murderers are not 

 confined to Madawaska County. 



But I started out to write notes on the flora of the 

 Restigouche. A few miles from St. Leonard's we saw a 

 honeysuckle which proved to be the Swamp Honeysuckle 

 [Lonicera oblongifolia), a plant new to our provincial flora. 

 Through the settlement we found the same weeds dis- 

 puting the possession of the soil with the farmers as we 

 find in other places. The Ox-eye Daisy and the Cone- 

 flower {Rudbeckia hiria) in the grass-fields, the Wild 

 Mustard in the grain fields, and a profusion of Campion 

 flowers {Silene Cuciibalus) on the roadside. When we 

 entered the forest our road, which had to be cut at 

 intervals, lay along beautiful stretches of woodland 

 chiefly rock maple and yellow and gray birch, with a 

 beautiful undei-shrubbery of Viburnum lantanoidcs. 

 The gentle ascents were clothed with mosses, the Twin 

 no%ver [Linncea borealis), scenting the woods with its 

 fragrant odor, and the White Oxalis {Oxalis acetoseUa), 

 in contrast with sphagnums of the hollows with dense 

 shrubbery of viburnums and cornuses, with pyrolas in 

 bloom, and with some fine specimens of Habenaria 

 orbicalata, its loose spike of greenish-white flowers with 



