22 BOTANICAL GAZETTE. 
been a mass of golden bloom, gave evidence of the advance of 
the season. The same localities abounded in Corema Conradii, 
Torr., with immature fruit, and Arctostaphylos Uva-ursi, Spreng, 
while Comandra livida, Richardson, was found in a sandy slashing 
in the woods. Growing along the track was a depauperate form 
of Rosa lucida, Ehrh., and in a woodland back of the station 
Helianthemum Canadense, Mx., Spergula arvensis, L. in fields, 
Pilea pumila, Gr. in low woods, Panicwm depauperatum, Muhl. 
on dry banks, and Amblyodon dealbatus, Pal. Beauv. on the bot- 
toms of dried up hollows in eranberry marshes, were also picked 
up, and made welcome additions to our list. In a swamp at 
Bridgetown, a neighboring village, is a fine grove of Thuja ocei- 
dentalis, L.., a tree, we were informed, which, though common in 
oe adjoining province of New Brunswick, is very scarce in Nova 
otia. : 
. along the grassy cece! : 
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Wiedsid Fosiia, # Be cliff were fine bunches . 
_ On leaving Kentville our road entered the country which 
ie te has made famous. From Grand Pré, literally “great. 
meadow,” one has only to look about on the ocean of billowy 
grass to see howa t was the name, and we can not wonder at the 4 
unwillingness of the Acadians to quit so peaceful a spot. Few 
