A VISIT TO ST. ANDREW'S, N. B. 23 



soil and Btill retain the conquered territory. The less frequent- 

 ed streets and abandoned gardens and fields have been a})pro- 

 priated, and now furnish a most attractive field for the botanist. 

 Native plants, whose constitution fits them for living in the 

 cool and damp atmos])here under the shadovv' of the great forests, 

 are unable to endure the assaults of the wind and the sunshine to 

 which the}' are exposed when the forest is removed, and are conse- 

 quently incapable of successfully resisting the encroachments of 

 the invaders. Probably no locality of equal area in Canada can 

 boast of a larger [)ercentage of foreign j)lants in its Flora, than 

 that which liourishes on the streets and in the neighborhood of 

 St. Andrew's. The old park, once an object of beauty, with its 

 winding paths — its artificial lak^, now filled with aquatic 

 plants — its grassy plots and forgotten flower beds, furnishes a 

 field for a collection of foreign species which might well gladden 

 the heart of any botanist. 



When the writer arrived, early in June, some of the streets 

 and the neighboring fields were brilliant with Dandelions, of 

 which two species are found beside the Biological Laboratory. 

 In July the white flowers of Carow'ay Ctram Carui covered the 

 fields for miles arouml the t(nvn. A collecti(ni of the seeds might 

 have produced enough to sup[)ly the demand for the whole prov- 

 ince. In the month of August, the roads and fields Avere cover- 

 ed with the Fall Dandelion Ltcntcdtn autvri nalc. In July, 

 Hieracium nurantlaciDii, fLujihrasla Americana and Rhuvinthu.^ 

 Cruta-Galli, were exceedingly abundant in the neighborh(iod of 

 the Laboratory. Of 32 species of Composita? collected. 20 were 

 of foreign origin. 



The following list contains only the names of species of 

 wljich the writer collected specimens in flower ov fruit during his 

 visit. At the time of his arrival the early ptlants, including the 

 forest trees, .had shed their flowers and wlien he left the autum- 

 nal s])ecies such as the Asters and Soiidagoes were only beginning 

 to appear. He regrets that his very inadequate equipment for 

 collecting and drying specimens prevented him from securing 

 many other species, such as the Mosses and Fungi, which were 

 abundant and would have largelv swelled the list. 



