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Crataegus sp. 1 Herb., in rich soil close by the side of the lake, a low 

 tree but spreading ; sp. 2 growing in the same place ; Crataegus sp. 3, 

 a very fine tree, fruit large and of a bright scarlet colour, leaves 

 serrated ; Euonymus sp. 1 Herb., a small tree in rich soil, fruit yellow, 

 warted, different variety from common ; a wild plum of a brown and 

 yellow colour, tartish tasted, with red specks, on the margins of the lake 

 very abundant ; Fraxinus sp. 1, in rich soil, from 40 to 60 feet high, 

 not of great thickness ; Quercus sp. 42 Herb., soil black, rich, so like one 

 on the island of Amherstburg but not so deeply lobed, fruit very large, mossy 

 cup and fringed, from 40 to 60 feet in height, 2 feet to 2 J thick. Quercus 

 sp. 43 : during my day's labour I had the misfortune to meet with a 

 circumstance which I must record as it concerns not only my business, but 

 also my personal affairs. I got up in the oak 43 for the purpose of procur- 

 ing seeds and specimens ; the day being warm, I was induced to take off my 

 coat and in that state I ascended. I had not been above five minutes up, 

 when to my surprise the man whom I hired as guide and assistant took up 

 my coat and made off as fast as he could run with it. I descended almost 

 headlong and followed, but before I could make near him he escaped in the 

 wood. I had in my pockets my notes and some receipt of money, nineteen 

 dollars in paper, a copy of Persoon's ' Synopsis Plantarum/ with my small 

 vasculum. I was thus left five miles from where I had left the car, in a 

 miserable condition, and as there was no remedy that could be taken to 

 better myself, I tied my seeds in my neckcloth and made to my lodging. I 

 had to hire a man to take me back to Sandwich as I could not drive ; and 

 the horse only understanding the French language, and I could not talk to 

 him in his tongue, placed me in an awkward situation. I had to borrow a 

 coat as there was no tailor to make me one. On my getting to Sandwich 

 I remonstrated with the man who recommended my assistant to me, but 

 he said that he never did so to his knowledge, and so on. However I 

 found my guide was a runaway Virginian. 



Sunday, September 21st. I returned to Sandwich as I have said ; 

 stayed the remainder of the day, and on Monday proceeded again to 

 Amherstburg. 



Tuesday, September 23rd. I made an excursion across the river to the 

 Michigan Territory, at which place I found several species of Liatris, a 

 Smilax of a curious appearance, a species of Elymus very strong in the 

 marshes, Lobelia inflata and syphilitica in wet places ; in a dry part of the 

 wood among dead leaves Botrychium, Arum triphyllum, 1 Pothos foetidus. 2 

 These plants struck me as singular ; they, without fail, in most cases, 

 frequent moist places. I have not seen Sarracenia in the Upper Province. 

 Trillium is also scarce. I have in the neighbourhood found a rose culti- 

 vated which agrees with pendulina of Pursh, and which he suspects to be of 

 European origin, which is probable. I am informed that it was taken by 

 the French to Canada at the first settling of the country. Mr. Briscoe 

 to-day received orders to remove to Kingston by the first steamboat, 

 which news sealed my disappointments : first a long passage, the loss of 



1 Arisaema triphyllum, Britton and Brown, 111. Fl. N. U. St. i. p. 361. 



2 Symplocarpus joetidus, Engler, in DC. Monog. Phan. ii. p. 212. 



