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an inhabitant of Maine. Ledum latifolium is not uncommon in 

 swampy grounds, especially in the maritime provinces, where it 

 blossoms profusely, and farther north the narrow leaved L palustre, 

 with twice as many stamens, seems to take its place. Loiseleuria 

 procumbens, a dwarf alpine plant of northern Europe is extremely 

 arctic with us, but finds a resting place on the lofty summits of 

 New Plampshire ; it is one of the fuel plants of the arctic voyagers. 

 Moneses uniflora is found at Mount Uniacke, by the Rev. J. B. 

 Uniacke, Rector of St. George's, and other Pyrol^ are not rare. 

 Pterospora is confined to Ontario. For the Scotch Heather, Cal- 

 luna valgaris, several localities have been ascertained in Nova Sco- 

 tia and Cape Breton, in addition to those previously published. 

 In conclusion the Author referred to the poisonous and intoxi- 

 cating properties attributed to some Ericaceae. Kalmia angustifolia 

 is well known to our farmers as " Lamb poison," from the sickness 

 and occasional deaths caused to lambs that nibble the young shoots 

 in early summertime. Burnett has attributed poisonous effects to 

 the honey of Kalmia latifolia in the United States. The following 

 notices of poisonous honey have been kindly furnished by Professor 

 Johnson, of Dalhousie College : — 



From Xenophon^s Anabasis: — ^* Having passed the summit, 

 the Greeks encamped in a number of villages containing abundance 

 of provisions. As to other things here, there was nothing at which 

 they were surprised : but the number of bee hives was extraordinary, 

 and all the sailors that ate of the combs lost their senses, vomited, 

 and were affected with purging, and none of them were able to 

 stand upright ; such as had eaten a little were like men greatly 

 intoxicated, and such as had eaten much were like mad men, and 

 some like persons at the point of death. They lay upon the ground 

 in great numbers, as if there had been a defeat ; and there was a 

 general dejection. The next day no one of them was found dead, 

 and they recovered their senses about the same hour that they had 

 lost them on the preceding day ; and on the third and fourth days 

 they got up as if after having taken physic." 



Plinifs Natural History, Booh XXI. Section 44. — *'At 

 Heraclia in Pontus the honey made by bees in some years is most 

 dangerous. Writers have not mentioned from what flowers this is 

 collected : We shall record what we have discovered. There is a 

 plant called aegolethron [goat's bane, literally ; probably the Azalea 



