44 BOTANICAL GAZETTE. 
ceeded to examine. “ Barrens,” or “ bake apple barrens,’—as 
they are called in the neighborhood, from their being the favor- 
ite resort of the “bake apple,” the name by which Rubus Cham- 
cemorus, Li, is here known,—are extensive mossy tracts bordered 
by a growth of scraggy spruce, and covered in places with a low 
brush of ericaceous plants. They favor the coast, and are said to 
owe their origin to bush fires which have in times past swept the 
country. ‘The one visited was particularly rich in the Rubus in 
all stages, from perfect flower to nearly mature fruit, oH also en- 
lake a few miles from town, with Lobelia Dortmanna, 
nanthemum lacunosum, Griseb., parganium simplex, Huds. var. 
Jluitans, Gr., Sagittaria heterophylla, Pursh. and Isoetes Tucker- 
mani, Braun. ; 
Canada possesses too few historically famous places to sanction 
the missing of so well-known a one as Louisbourg. According- 
miles intervening between that place and Sydney, and a most 
enjoyable drive was the result, the road, though hilly, being good,. 
pleasantly diversified with hill and dale, and generally shaded. 
Brook, just where it crossed the road, Nuphar pumilum, Smith, 
treaty of Aix-la-Cha lle, an 
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rance on the Atlantic coast, and a key to the Gulf of St. Law- 
