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  BOTANICAL 
  GAZETTE. 
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  there 
  can 
  be 
  reparation, 
  but 
  the 
  process 
  will 
  prove 
  a 
  long 
  and 
  

   costly 
  one, 
  enforcing 
  the 
  lesson 
  that 
  there 
  is 
  no 
  gain 
  in 
  the 
  

   end 
  in 
  tampering 
  with 
  the 
  wise 
  provision 
  of 
  nature. 
  

  

  I 
  shall 
  mention 
  in 
  this 
  article 
  those 
  plants 
  only 
  that 
  seem 
  

   most 
  important 
  botanically, 
  either 
  by 
  variations, 
  habitat, 
  or 
  

   other 
  conditions. 
  One 
  of 
  the 
  first 
  discovered, 
  as 
  well 
  as 
  

   most 
  interesting 
  on 
  account 
  of 
  its 
  locality, 
  was 
  found 
  near 
  

   the 
  Champion 
  mine. 
  Having 
  examined 
  this 
  extensive 
  mine 
  

   the 
  morning 
  after 
  reaching 
  the 
  place, 
  and 
  seeing 
  a 
  piece 
  of 
  

   swampy 
  land 
  just 
  south 
  of 
  it, 
  into 
  which 
  the 
  waste 
  rock 
  from 
  

   the 
  mine 
  is 
  thrown 
  and 
  its 
  water 
  pumped, 
  I 
  went 
  down 
  to 
  

   find 
  what 
  might 
  be 
  detected 
  there. 
  Growing 
  in 
  patches 
  on 
  

   the 
  wet 
  stones 
  and 
  soil 
  w^as 
  a 
  moss-like 
  plant, 
  an 
  inch 
  or 
  

   two 
  high, 
  which, 
  on 
  inspection, 
  was 
  seen 
  to 
  belong 
  to 
  the 
  

   Pink 
  family, 
  but 
  just 
  what 
  was 
  not 
  evident 
  at 
  sight. 
  When 
  

   identified 
  it 
  proved 
  to 
  be 
  a 
  specimen 
  of 
  Sagina 
  frocwnhens 
  

   L., 
  in 
  this 
  seemingly 
  out-of-the-way 
  place. 
  It 
  grew 
  in 
  

   plenty 
  in 
  this 
  locality, 
  but 
  was 
  met 
  wnth 
  nowhere 
  else 
  about 
  

   the 
  upper 
  lakes. 
  Its 
  main 
  interest 
  arises 
  from 
  the 
  fact 
  that, 
  

   as 
  represented 
  in 
  the 
  flora 
  of 
  North 
  America, 
  it 
  has 
  hereto- 
  

   fore 
  been 
  found 
  on 
  the 
  Atlantic 
  border, 
  being 
  essentially 
  a 
  

   coast 
  plant, 
  ranging 
  from 
  Greenland 
  to 
  Pennsylvania. 
  

   Hence 
  it 
  adds 
  another 
  to 
  the 
  list 
  of 
  plants 
  occurring 
  along 
  

   the 
  Atlantic 
  borders 
  and 
  in 
  the 
  basin 
  of 
  the 
  Great 
  Lakes 
  

   without 
  intermediate 
  stations. 
  It 
  is 
  a 
  plant 
  widely 
  diffused 
  

   in 
  the 
  northern 
  parts 
  of 
  the 
  Old 
  World, 
  being 
  common 
  to 
  

   Europe 
  and 
  Asia, 
  and, 
  according 
  to 
  Sprengel, 
  found 
  in 
  pas- 
  

   tures 
  in 
  northern 
  Africa. 
  In 
  the 
  eastern 
  continents 
  it 
  is 
  a 
  

   dry-land 
  or 
  pasture 
  plant. 
  Torrey, 
  in 
  his 
  "Flora 
  of 
  the 
  

   Northern 
  and 
  Middle 
  Sections 
  of 
  the 
  United 
  States,"'^ 
  has 
  

   this 
  remark 
  upon 
  it: 
  "The 
  habitat 
  of 
  this 
  plant 
  differs 
  

   fi-om 
  the 
  European 
  species, 
  which 
  occurs 
  in 
  dry 
  soil. 
  In 
  

   every 
  other 
  respect 
  they 
  agree 
  preciselv." 
  Ga^rtner^ 
  figures 
  

   a 
  stem 
  of 
  it 
  in 
  his 
  work 
  on 
  the 
  fruits 
  "and 
  seeds 
  of 
  plants, 
  

   and 
  a 
  sprig 
  of 
  that 
  found 
  at 
  Champion 
  might 
  have 
  been 
  em- 
  

   ployed 
  for 
  the 
  drawing, 
  as 
  it 
  agrees 
  precisely. 
  

  

  Convolvulus 
  sfUhamcBus, 
  as 
  found 
  in 
  this 
  region, 
  takes 
  a 
  

   form 
  somewhat 
  diff"erent 
  from 
  that 
  further 
  south. 
  It 
  was 
  

   noticed 
  by 
  its 
  prominent 
  white 
  flowers 
  along 
  the 
  railroad 
  

   jrom 
  Green 
  Bav 
  northward, 
  and 
  recognized 
  as 
  of 
  the 
  morn- 
  

   ^[;g 
  glory 
  kind; 
  but 
  not 
  identified 
  from 
  the 
  car 
  windmvs 
  with 
  

   the 
  plants 
  seen 
  in 
  fields 
  beside 
  the 
  Kankakee 
  and 
  Calumet 
  

   "vers. 
  The 
  latter 
  generally 
  have 
  decumbe 
  nt 
  stems 
  one 
  or 
  

  

  'p. 
  195. 
  

  

  'l^e 
  Fructibus 
  et 
  Seminibus 
  Plantarum, 
  1791, 
  Vol. 
  II, 
  tab. 
  129. 
  

  

  