160 ^ugujl 1749. 



THIS evening we arrived at Lorettt $ 

 where we lodged with the Jefuits. 



Augujtfas. 1 3th. IN the morning we 

 continued our journey through the woods 

 to the high mountains, in order to fee 

 vhat fcarce plants and curiofities we could 

 get there. The ground was flat at firft* 

 and covered with a thick wood all round, 

 except in marfhy places. Near half the 

 plants, which are to .be met with here, 

 grow in the woods and morafles of Sweden. 



WE faw wild Cherry-trees here, of two 

 kinds, which are probably mere varieties, 

 though they differ in feveral refpecSs. Both 

 are pretty common inCanada, and both have 

 red berries, One kind, which is called 

 Cerifier by the French* taftes like our Al 

 fine cherries, and their acid contracts the 

 mouth, and cheeks. The berries of ths 

 other fort have an agreeable fournefs, and 

 a pleafant tafte *. 



THE three-leaved Hellebore rj- grows in 

 great plenty -in the woods, and in many 

 places it covers the ground by itfelf. How- 

 ever, it commonly choofes mofiy places, 



that 



* The kind called Cer/fcr by the French, I defcribed 

 thus in my journal : Cvrafut foliit o'vatitferratis, ferratuns 

 prffutidis fere fubuhtis^ fruftu nacemojo. The other thus j 

 Cerafus foliis lanceolatis, cfsnato-Jerratis, acutis, fmttuftrt 

 Joli tar id. 



f Heileborus trifolius, 



