BOTANICAL GAZETTE. 45 
ishing on a bank just above the sea, while some swampy groun 
s the “Grand Bat- 
main defenses and [vis prismatica, Pursh. enriched a low swale 
near by. A wet “barren” had added materially to the strength 
of the place on the seaward side, and in picking our way over 
this we stumbled across Carex limosa, L., Calamagrostis Picker- 
mgu, Gr., and Hypnum molle, Dicks., while Racomitrium lanugi- 
nosum, Bird., was found on dry banks closer to the shore. 
Retracing our steps to Sydney, and over the Bras D’Or, our 
next halt was made at Baddeck, with other Cape Breton scenes 
So well described by Charles Dudley Warner in his sketch “Bad- 
deck and that Sort of Thing.” Here, in a salt-water pond on 
the island forming the harbor were got Zannichellia palustris, L. 
and Ruppia maritima, L., and, on the sands surrounding it, a 
form of Potentilla Anserina, L., differing from our inland one in 
having a widely reflexed calyx and achenix forming dark purple 
heads as large as the ordinary run of wild strawberries. On 
the Swampy shore of the mainland grew Eleocharis pygmea, 
Torr., and Poa serotina, Ehrh., while the grassy hill slopes were 
Say with Habenaria lacera, R. Br., and, where at all shaded, 
with Aspidium Noveboracense, Swz. 
Notes on Indiana Plants, 1883. 
BY E. J. HILL. 
f The following notes have been selected from my note-book 
or 1883 as far as it relates to the flora of Indiana. Some of the 
F tage named are additions to those given in the Catalogue of 
€ Plants of Indiana by the editors of the BoranicaL Ga- 
