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attractive, but more happily situated for business, which in both cases 

 happen to be about sixteen miles away at the head of navigation. One 

 may trace yet other resemblances, some natural, some accidental. All 

 of these things — physiography, history, people, accident — combine to 

 produce in the two places an atmosphere not only remarkably alike, 

 bnt extremely agreeable ; and we may speak affectionately of the one 

 as the Saint Andrews of the north, or of the other as the Dalhousie of 

 the south, according to our point of view. 



7. — On Halophytic Colonies in the Interior of New Brunswick. 



Read Nov. 2nd, 1897; re-written April, 1898. 



In the geographical distribution of plants no phenomena are of 

 greater interest than the occurrence of colonies isolated far from their 

 congeners in the midst of a different flora. The best known case of 

 this, and one which will occur to everyone in this connection, is the 

 presence of Arctic plants on high mountains even near the equator, 

 and in bogs and other cold places. We have Arctic plants in New 

 Brunswick, as Dr. Matthew* and Professor Fowlerf have shown ; but 

 we have also another kind of isolated colony, which has not yet been 

 described by our botanists — a colon}' of sea-shore plants at the .Salt 

 Springs near Sussex. 



These springs — three or four in number — occur three miles east 

 of Sussex, beside the highway road to Moncton. The brine was form- 

 erly, but is not now, boiled down for salt. They break out in the 

 open fields and flow down to a fresh-water brook near by. On the 

 sandy shore around the springs and along their outlets grow plants 

 which give the place the appearance of a bit of the sea-shore. Several 

 years ago I noticed these plants, and last August I visited the place, 

 and collected the species listed below. The Phanerogams were identified 

 for me by Mr. Walter Deane and Dr. B. L. Robinson of Cambridge, 

 and the Alga- by Mr. F. L. Collins of Maiden, to all of whom, for their 

 valued aid, I tender my sincere thanks. They are listed about in the 

 order of their abundance, and the notes were made on the spot. 



1. Salicomia herbacea, I.. The most abundant and characteristic plant: 



very red and succulent. 



2. Spergularia(Buda)8alina, Presl. On the sandy banks; very abundant. 



3. Spergularia nalina, var. minor, Rob. (?) 



4. Spergularia borealis, Rob. >, 



*See Canadian Naturalist, 1869. 1 See Trans Royal Soc. Canada, V. 



