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In tlie thick timber along tlie Koslikouong Creek, there is now 

 but one lot of about 40 acres where the plants can yet be found 

 nearly as abundant as formerly. There can yet be had Phlox di- 

 varicata, Laphami. Allium tricoccum, Erythroniuni albidum, Den- 

 taria laciniata, Asarum canadense and many other interesting plants. 

 A Tamarack marsh held out the longest; it was not visited by cat- 

 tle till, for want of pasture elswhere they were obliged to cross its 

 miry borders. In this marsh, or on its borders, were formerly 

 growing, Microstylis ophioglossoides, Liparis loeselii, Gymnadenia 

 tridenta, Platanthera leucophoea, lacera and orbiculata, Are- 

 thusa bulbosa, Pogonia ophioglossoides, Calopogon pulchellus, Cyp- 

 ripedium pubescens, Parviflorum candidum and spectabile, Tofiel- 

 dia glutinosa, Drosera linearis. Lobelia kalimi, Ophioglossum vul- 

 gatum, Schoenus albus, Schenchzeria palustris, Triglochin palustre, 

 and manj' Carices among which Carex oligosporma. Now of all 

 these and many other interesting plants formerly growing in this 

 marsh or near it some have become very rare and some are totally 

 eradicated. 



On a small prairie, too stoney and gravelly for cultivation, there 

 can yet be found Geum triflorum, Aster obtusifolius and ptarmi- 

 coides, Lithospermum hirtum and longiflorum, Castileja sessiiflora, 

 Linum boothi, Gentiana puberula, Ranunculus rhomboideus, Hier- 

 acium longipilum, Draba caroliniana, Arubis lyrata, Arenaria^ 

 stricta, Mich, and Diplopappus which on gravel hills grows only 

 two to three inches high, with leaves very stiff and narrow, but the 

 flower large, having somewhat the aspect of an Alpine plant. A 

 list of the plants of this vicinity, giving the plants of to-day, would 

 be a comparatively meagre one and nearly useless, as their number 

 is lessening every year, and a list of the plants of thirty years ago 

 would perhaps have no other than a small historical value. 



These observations, though made in only this locality, do prob- 

 ably apply to all the settled portions of the State. 



