294 Sepemhr 1749. 



They boil a good deal of fugar in Ca;^", 

 Ja of the juice running out of the incifions 

 in the fugar-maple, the red maple, and th? 

 fugar- birch ; but that of the firfl tree is 

 ninil: commonly made ufe of. The way 

 of'preparing it has been more minutely de- 

 fcribed by me, in the Memoirs of the Royal 

 Swedijh Academy of Sciences *. 



September the 26th. Early this mor- 

 ning I returned to Montreal. Every thing 

 began novv^ tolooklikeautumn. The leaves of 

 the trees were pale or reddiHi, and moft of 

 the plants had loft their flowers. Thofc 

 which ftill preferved them were the follow- 

 ing f: 



Several forts of afters, both blue and 

 white. 



Golden rods of viarious kinds. 



Common milfoil. 



Common felf-heal. 



The crifped thiftle. 



The biennial Oenothera. 



The rough-leaved fun-flower, with tri- 

 foliated leaves. 



The Canada violet. 



* See the Volume for the year 175 1, p. 143, l£c. 



t Jjitres. Solidagines. Achillea millefolium, Pruntllet 

 'Vulgaris. Carduus crifpuf, Oenothera biennis. Rudbeckid 

 triloba. Vivjla Canadenfis, Gsntiana Saponaria, 



