BUTANICAL GAZETTE ie 
ground was also reddened in many spots by the ripe fruit of the 
common wintergreen Birds were nut abundant, a fact I ha 
noticed two years before at Sault St. Marie, and the berries are 
so plentiful that even if they were a vast number would be left 
untouched. In the open plains grew great quantities of Polygala 
polygama, Walt , with aerial and subterranean stems branching 
by the score from a single root, making a large tuft of stems, 
seemingly to rival Vaccinium and Gaultheria in the effort to 
keep the ground stocked with seed. And it doubtless had one 
ee from its floral habit, its seeds being planted from the 
rst. 
In the colder and denser woods, where the white pine and 
hemlock were more common, the fetid-current, Ribes prostratum, 
LHer., frequently occurred. In such places, growing among the 
moss, the dwarf Pyrola (P. seeunda, var. pumila), was not un- 
common. Here also, or in higher lands by streams, or in damp 
wer at ihe same time and place. In the bogs by the ride of 
Hanbury Lake, Habenaria dilata, Gray, was common. Erioph- 
orum vaginatum also grew here. Orchids in the contiguous ce- 
: dar sw amp were H. obtusata, Richardson, here, as elsewhere, ex- 
hibiting a great variety in the form of its leaves, so that a num- 
