2 BOTANICAL GAZETTE. 
bloom, pricked out with snowy tufts, the tops of Hriophoruwm 
vaginatum, L. The stout stems of Veratrum viride, Ait. were 
shooting up in all the low meadows, while Antennaria plantagi- 
nifolia, Hook. carpeted the dry knolls. At Rimouski we turned 
our backs on the St. Lawrence and journeyed south to the valley 
of the Metapediac. -If,as is said, the name of this famous salmon 
stream denotes ‘ musical waters,’ the title is well deserved. 
Winding through the green valley in a constant succession of 
rapids for nearly sixty miles we watched its sparkling waters, so 
strangely pent in by the mountains rising in every shape, from 
six to eight hundred feet on either hand. The season was back- 
ward and a few patches of snow were still lying along the banks, 
and many of the poplars were just beginning to put forth their 
leaves. Evening saw us across the Restigouche and into New 
Brunswick, while breakfast time next morning found us at 
Amherst and in Nova Scotia. A few hours more and we had 
‘reached Truro, our first regular botanizing ground. 
Having settled ourselves at an hotel, our first thought was to 
L., filled the woodlands. The noble hardwood forest was re- 
placed by one composed of Abies nigra, Poir., alba, Mx., bal- — , 
samea, Marshall, and Canadensis, Mx., Pinus resinosa, Ait., — 
Strobus, L., Larix Americana, Mx., and Betula papyracea, 
Ait., and alba, var. populifolia, Spach. Fi | shine: 
Acer saecharinum, a if 4 pach.; Lagus ferruginea, / 
were very abundant and well represented by Polypodium vulgare, 4q 
L, Pteris aquilina, L., Asplenium Filix-feemina, Bernh., Phegop- 
teris polypodioides, Fée and Dryopteris, Fée, Aspidium eristatum, 
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