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Golden Cinl) (Orontiuni), Water Anim (Calk palustris), and 

 a host of other liandsonie and interestmg bog-plants cover 

 the uround fur hundreds of aeres, with perhaps an occasional 

 slender bush of Laurel ^Magnolia (Magnolia glauca^ among 

 them. In some parts of Canada, where the painfully long 

 and straight roads are often made through woody swamps, 

 and wliere the few scattered and poor liabitations offer little 

 to cheer the traA'eller, he will, if a lover of plants, find con- 



The same spot as in opposite sketch, with aftergrowth of Iris, Meadow Sweet, 

 and Bindweed. (See p. 77. 



servatories of beauty in the ditches and pools of black 

 water beside the road, fringed with the sweet-scented Button- 

 Ijush, with a profusion of stately ferns, and often filled with 

 masses of the pretty Sagittarias. 



Southwards and seawards, the bog-flowers become tropical 

 in size and brilliancy, as in the splendid kinds of lierbaceous 

 Hibiscus, ^vhile far north, and west and south along tlie 

 mountains, the beautiful and showy Mocassin-flow^er (Cypri- 

 pedium spectabile) grows the queen of the peat bog. Then 

 in California, all along the Sierras, there are a number of 

 delicate little annual plants growing in small mountain bogs 



