272 NOTES ON THE BOTANY OF MANITOBA. 
It must be distinctly understood that the plowing: cae are 
put forward merely as notes. My observations indeed were made in 
but few localities, and covered but a portion of a year on ts 
sequently it is probable that many common Manitoban = are 
ns h as noticed. 
st of the following notes were made near the town of Car- 
aay: on the main line of the Canadian Pacific Railway, and 
105 miles west of Winnipeg, during the months of July, August, 
September, and October, 1883. I cannot too fully acknowledge 
the assistance rendered to me by my friend Mr. Ernest E. Thomp- 
son,t whose researches into the natural history of Manitoba are 
well known on the other side of the Atlantic. I cannot do better 
than ranest a description which I have already given of the locality 
whence came most of the plants spoken of in the following para- 
graphs :—Carberry stands at the south end of what is known as 
the ‘Big Plain,” which is merely a rather unusually large stretch 
din ost t 
Soa Sete River, lies an extensive range of desolate sand- 
a 
For athe miles on either side of the 
creek extends a huge swam swamp, covered thickly with trees of spruce 
and tamarac, where the Baan ‘pitaher plant) Sarracenia purpurea, 
grows by the acre, and all things combine to make a true naturalist’s 
—— winter, when everything is frozen hard, this swamp 
may be crossed with ; but so wet and impenetrable is it in 
summer, that I have little hesitation in claiming that no one oe 
= Seton an mys eyer cross ssed it at that time of year 
a fine growth of grass ery interposed ‘vith “‘ bluffs,’ : { which are 
morgan ‘Natural History Journal,’ vol. ix., p. 67. ‘Notes on the Land 
and Fresh-water Mollusca A Manitoba,” " Jour nal of Conse vol. iv., 
P. 339. “ Note otes on a Visit to the Bell Farm,” ‘Field,’ Dec. 27,1884. ‘On the 
‘ e of Earthworms pairioa of the shaais North-West,” 
of Stipa ea,” Report o f the Manitoba eres 
ey > Agriculture for 1883,” Pp. 353; and (Abstract) ‘ Dros. Linnean Soc.’ 1883—86 
; er known by his literary nom de plume of E. B. T. Seton. 
~~ oe ae the: il prairies, any mer pese copse or cluster of trees is called 
_ marshy spot, vf ballon pen onounced slew) is the invariable name for a wet, 
