THE RESTIOOUCHE WITH NOTES ON ITS FLORA. '.V^ 



New Brujiswick. We also found here Goodyera puhescens 

 its second station in the Province, Our last half mile up 

 the Squaw Cap was a most toilsome one, but our spirits 

 were gladdened and refreshed by the clusters of rare ferns 

 that grew in ringlets round this Cap — Aspidium fragrans, 

 Phegopteris calearea, Woodsia glabella, Woodsia hyperborea, 

 all rare in this province and known only at one or two 

 stations. These with other rare plants met with on the 

 Restigoucbe I brought home and planted, and hope that 

 next season I may have something better than these dried 

 specimens to show you. 



On the southern side of Squaw Cap Mountain we 

 obtained a fine view of that great central watershed of the 

 Province from which some single peaks rise, two thousand 

 to two thousand five hundred feet above the level of the 

 sea. There is easily picked out an old friend of former 

 years — Bald Mountain on the Tobique, a trifle higher 

 than the elevation on which we are now perched, tired 

 and panting, but delighted. Away off to the southwest 

 is the monarch of them all — Katahdin, in Maine, over 

 five thousand feet Ijigh. From the north side the view is 

 scarcely less imposing — the ranges and peaks of Quebec 

 with the valley of the St. Lawrence beyond them. Just 

 opposite to us, Slate Mountain, only three miles away, 

 was wreathed in smiles of a rapidly descending sun, and 

 beckoned us invitingly, but we turned regretfully away 

 with many promises of a return which I hope will not 

 lack fulfilment. 



"What a tramp that was ! How tired we were ! but 

 when we looked over the treasures in the tin box, there 

 was no weariness. We were delighted to see even a 

 warden, and he looked curiously at our driers and press 

 and the plants stowed away in them. 



