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western plant should be found at a point so far east as the Hel river 
station, with apparently no intervening points of distribution. 
Pinguicula vulgaris, a curious insectivorous plant, very widely distri- 
buted in the northern parts of Asia, Europe and North America, is found, 
along the Restigouche occupying, at intervals, a length of territory 
not exceeding twenty miles. It grows on wet, mossy rocks with 
Primula mistassinica and Pellea gracilis. Transferred to a rockery 
built on the edge of a brook, it has flourished well for several years, 
but seems to do equally well in a grass plot beside a path, where some 
plants were accidentally dropped and took root. Its rosette of yel- 
lowish-green leaves, sending up in June flowers on scapes similar to 
the blue violet (whence its common name of bog or marsh violet), 
makes it a very attractive plant in cultivation, while its upturned 
leaves, with the active juices, are ever ready to diminish the horde 
of mosquitoes, black flies or other insects that may alight upon them. 
One of the most remarkable inroads of a weed that I have ever 
noticed was that of the Hieracium prealtum, appropriately named 
the “ king-devil.” From the mouth of the Upsalquitch down to the 
estuary of the Restigouche it has taken possession of roadsides and 
farms, invading even the woodland districts, threatening the extirpa- 
tion of the smaller native plants. I have never seen a farmer more 
helpless in the presence of a weed than one who lives near the mouth 
of the Upsalquitch. His fields were being steadily covered with the 
“king-devil,” so that one could walk over them on the carpet of basal 
leaves thrown up by this ill-favoured plant. It was the old story 
of neglect on the one hand and weed-aggressiveness on the other. 
The presence of many Alpine plants in the valley of the Resti- 
gouche is of interest, especially near the mouths of the tributaries 
that flow into it from the highlands of South-eastern Quebec. Among 
these are the small Timothy, Phleum Alpinum, Arctostaphylos, Uva- 
Ursi, Solidago virgaurea var alpina, Arnica mollis, Pyrola secunda var 
pumila, Galium boreale, Goodyera Menziesti, Anemone parviflora, Carex 
atrata var ovina, C. alpina, with other flowering plants and ferns 
already mentioned, including especially the ferns Asplenium viride, 
Woodsia glabella and W. hyperborea, Aspidium fragrans and A. aculea- 
tum, Pellea gracilis. 
