20 BOTANICAL GAZETTE. 
but with ones fresh or insufficiently wilted, the process was use- 
less, as the absence of pressure allowed the leaves to curl u . 
sands ; Alchemilla vulgaris, L., abundant in waste places, and in 
fields bordering the harbor, Galium Aparine, L., on a bar running 
on dry ground, but close by; Tussilago Farfara, L., common 
along the streets and railway track ; Symplocarpus feetidus, Salisb., 
Royale, it remained go till g century later, when, captured by the 
English, the name was changed in honor of Queen Anne to 
Annapolis Royal, since abbreviated to Annapolis. Like other 
Acadian strongholds the fort is now a ruin, and the place that 
Once rang with the tread of armed men echoes with the merr 
laughter of children, whose play-ground it is. What a pleasant 
memory is the evening hour spent on the old grass covered ram- 
sor the sea with its never ceasing murmur at our feet, and old 
North Mountain frowning grandly down upon it. What a 
pleasure, too, is the possession of souvenirs of our visit in Hyos- 
cyamus niger, L., found blooming freely in the decaying earth- 
