206 Statistics of the Flora of the Northern States. 
west; so that the volume in question probably contains nearly 
all the plants of Canada Hast, south of the St. Lawrence and of 
The siapplcit ty of our flora, as a purely northern temperate — 
one, is preserved by the absence throughout our limits of high 
mountains and of any considerable extent of elevated land, es- 
* The following Pheenogamons plants, contained in Prof. Agassiz’s published list 
of the plants gathered on the north shore of Lak drei ee in age cee made 
in 1848, are not included in the Botany of the Northern Sta 
Ribes oxyacanthoides, Tofieldia aa vel palustris. 
Lonicera involucrata. Carex Vahlii, 
Corispermum hyanoplfobiei: 
To which I may add, that obscure and ambiguous Grass, the Aira melicoides, 
yes ES te oe The last two, viz., Tofieldia palustris and Carex 
Vahl: ostichoi in Prof. Whit: 
claim ad- 
ra. But Iwas not a ~~ Saye t re i fell within 
graphically and 
ins to the northern shore, winks ie veustnion. co to display a 
e the 
subalpine character, which it spire not the south side, I determined to 
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+ This list includes the few j 1 as found on the immediate coast of — 
Lake Superior, altho ee one or the seven, aon Ribee oxyacanthoides, is truly 
Canadian. Three of them e from the northw: t and geo and three from the 
d 
udson’s Bay country. I pat the antrédas a wth eckoni oning ari these 
iat 
Hesperix matronalis, Sisymbryum Sophia, &e.: also all those <hbncicnath ao 
by Pursh, seme have not been sg d by later observ. 
ruleum, 
Thlaspi peste ®, Corispermum hyssopifolium. 
Linum perenn leaguus argentea, 
On eae Lambert en plant of | ge palustris. a 
ue era (S piens. 
Ribes bes hades Gone mee ¥ \ s(Spiranthes, meng te 
Lonicera involuerata, Ponce vast melicoides. (Pow yy’ 
Hieracium,vulgatum, Kivuitee Dureyetess et Hooke mate 
Nardosmia frigida. Allosorus acrostichoides, 
icaria inodo! 
So far as we know at present, roar only 29 indigenous 
and Ferns (of Mee 12 are also E an) would therefore te added by or oa 
oo hat is, the abtniey ordsting the north of the awrence and 
the Great Lakes 
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