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back again at half past seven — total distance ten miles, 

 and some of that was hard climbing, but it was worth it. 

 For three miles onr course lay along Squaw Cap Brook, 

 a clear stream whose ice cold waters were very grateful. 

 Mr. Jas. Harris, whose farm is about a mile in from the 

 Upsalquitch, was our guide. He showed us a part of his 

 farm where the grass fields were completely covered by 

 a weed whose presence lias not been before noted in this 

 province, a Hawkweed {Hieracium prcealtum). It is an 

 ill favored plant about a foot high, hairy with yellow 

 flowers in an open cyme, and a rosette of leaves which 

 rest on the ground. So completely had these rosettes of 

 leaves taken possession of the ground that every other 

 form of vegetation was killed — even the grass. We had 

 never seen a weed so completely master of the situation, 

 and that is saying a great deal. Mr. Harris is almost in 

 despair at the advances of this pest which threatens to 

 cover his entire farm. 



There was a wonderfully luxuriant flora along that 

 wood road which led to the base of the Squaw Cap. The 

 tall Joe Pye weed with its broad heads of ragged purple 

 flowers towered above us fully eight to ten feet high ; the 

 Meadow-rue {Thalidrunt polygamum) with its rich white 

 and green flowers looked more delicately beautiful in this 

 dense vegetation than ever before. Pyrolas covered the 

 ground everywhere in those mossy woods with their 

 racemes of nodding white or rose colored flowers. Orchids 

 of brilliant hues grew so luxuriantly in those woods that 

 we could imagine ourselves in tropical forests. But what 

 is that orchid with the deep green leaves reticulated with 

 white, and bearing a raceme of delicate brownish flowers? 

 Tt was quickly gathered and consigned to the tin box, and 

 proves to be an orchid new to the Province — Goody era 

 Mensiezv\ making three of this beautiful genus found in 



