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BOTANICAL GAZETTE. 
sula on which the city is built. Far beyond stretch the distant hills 
and forests as a background, and at one’s feet lies a foreground 
of busy streets, while McNab and Georges Islands with their 
frowning fortifications help well to break the watery middle dis- 
tance. The drives around Halifax are numerous and charming, 
and the city itself possesses many objects of interest, chief among 
which I would rank the Public Garden, where, differing from 
too many of them, nature is not made entirely subordinate to art. 
Our first day here was devoted to an examination of Point 
Pleasant, as the extremity of the Halifax Peninsula is named. 
‘The vegetation had changed, and we made many additions to our 
list. Plenty of oak, Quercus coccinea, Wang. var. tinctoria, Gr., 
was mixed with the evergreens which still formed the woods, 
while the most noticeable among the shrubs were Hamamelis 
Virginiana, L., Rhus typhina, L., Vaccinium corymbosum, 
-, var. pallidum, Gr., Gaylussacia resinosa, T. & G., and the 
fragrant Myrica cerifera, L. Willows were but sparsely repre- | 
sented by Salix cordata, Muhl., discolor, Muhl., and livida, 
flower and seed. Lechea minor, Walt. was not uncommon in 
dry places, and Stellaria uliginosa, Murr. filled a swampy patch 
just outside the city. Of that subject of so many charming su- 
perstitions, the clover, a species not heretofore recorded in Canada 
was found in Trifolium medium, 1., easily distinguished from 
pratense, L. by its long stalked heads. Houstonia cerulea, L, 
covered the grassy banks and meadows, its pale lilac flowers form- 
ing a marked and very pleasing feature in the landscape, and 
colored blossoms contrasting strangely with the delicate lemon- 
‘colored umbel of the lily, we saw our first orchid in Cypripedium 
