226 ' BOTANICAL GAZETTE. 
Met a Oe 
Where the ground had been freed from timber by Se 
fire, there was but little variety, the Bracken hand bef 
aquilina) often almost hiding the ground. Pong get The 
the blackberry, red raspberry, and the Hispid a ae 
trees taking the place of the old ones were the two ae "hg 
tremuloides and P. grandidentata, Betula via. aes brute 
oaks, Quercus coccinea and Q. rubra, rather small and s| viteee 
Oo the whole, these desolated tracts were a barren, ee tall 
field for exploration. In clearings and burnt districts Ni he 
symmetrical form of Arabis perfoliata, Lam., was oS 
pilobium angustifoliun was every where resent in Bint wikis 
ties. Here, also, was found ‘Physalis grandiflora, Hook., 
hills and in dry open woods. In similar places was Cynoglos- 
aes : : nse. 
sum Virginicwm, L., replacing ©. officinale as a weed. De 
patches of the white-flowered raspberry (Rubus i oo 
Cino) were often met with, so like the purple- flowered in yey 
and general appearance, differing mainly in its large white ae 
ers. On the high hills grew the Mountain Alder (Alnus viri ms 
C.), now in fruit, and bearing quite a close payee 3 
small forms of its relative, Betula pumila, L , found in bogs fa 
different flora is seen 
but characteristic. is 
