BOTANICAL GAZETTE. 23 
traces of the French village are now to be found, but the hol- 
lows that once were the cellars of their houses are still pointed 
out. There, too, now gnarled and decaying, are the willows that 
formerly lined the streets and perhaps witnessed the troth-plight 
of Gabriel and Evangeline, while the dykes, built to keep the 
sea from their meadows, and at which sturdy Basil himself may 
have lent a helping hand, yet-serve the same useful purpose. 
Great as is the charm of the place to the poet or sentimental 
tourist, it offers but scant attraction to the botanist, and accord- 
ingly we pushed on to Windsor, passing, just on the outskirts of 
that place, the old homestead of “Sam Slick” (Judge Halibur- 
ton). e Avon, on which the town is built, is principally made 
by the tide from the Basin of Minas, and is a noble stream at 
along the highway were found Juncus articulatus, L. and Carex 
retrorsa, Schw., and on the hillsides bordering it Panicum di- 
chotomum, L. In meadows by the creek were fine specimens of 
zalis corniculata, L: var. stricta, Sav., and Ocnothera pumila, 
reappeared, and in much better collecting condition. Near 
“ Prince’s Lodge,” once the residence of the Queen’s father, the 
Duke of Kent, for a long distance the railway track was covered 
with beautiful specimens ot Aquilegia vulgaris, L., in both flower 
and seed. Here likewise was a very large-flowered form of - 
Geranium Carolinianwm, L., and in rocky places Poa cesia, 
Smith. Dry gravelly roadsides yielded Urtica dioica, L., and 
boggy spots were brilliant with Myosotis lawa, Lehm., or, as Col- 
eridge so prettily describes it, 
“That blue and bright-eyed flow’ret of the brook, 
Hope’s gentle gem, the sweet forget-me-not.” 
