14 Remarks upon the Geographical 



more girlisli years, when this portion of her pleasing task of 

 decking our earth was imposed upon her. Mayhap also, she 

 may have breathed into the ears of her admirers of the present 

 day, to lead off with Clematis, and thus constitute the Eanun- 

 culaceous order, the foremost of the gTeat class of Exogens. 



Of the above genus Clematis, the C. Virginiana and C. Ver- 

 ticillaris are the two most northern species. After leaving 

 Canada for the North West they seldom occur, although they 

 are to be met with south of 54,*^ where the soil is rich and shrubs 

 are numerous. According to Hooker, the latter is found as far 

 west as the Rocky Mountain, and plentifully at Cape Mendocino 

 on the Pacific, but the C. Virginiana does not appear to pass the 

 longitude of Red River, or Lake Winipeg. 



Among the Anemoijes, the two, which I have seen display 

 themselves most conspicuously in Canada, are the Anemone 

 J'ensi/lvanica (the " Aconitifolia" of Michaux,) and the ^. Vir- 

 giniana. The former keeps its ground throughout the extent of 

 the British territory, eastward of the Rocky Mountain and even 

 westward, though less plentifully. The latter is less extended, 

 scarcely reaches the Mountain, and is much more rare. Cop- 

 pices of aspen, alder and j'ouug birch, not far removed from 

 river banks, are the situations selected by these Anemones. 

 They are of strongest growth in Canada in old garden ground, 

 which may have been allowed to run waste. That slender little 

 Anemone, the A. Hemorosa, so elegant in form and delicate in 

 flower, is common to the westward of Lake Superior, along the 

 frontier line of the United States. Choosing rich alluvial soil, it ap- 

 pears with the early violets, in woods where the sun is not entirely 

 excluded by foliage or the growth of the shady fir tribes. It is 

 a very interesting plant, prized by those who love the lightest 

 carmine tint upon pure white. Besides these three Anemones, so 

 well knoAvn in Canada, two or three species of low growth, and 

 bearing flowers of various shades of blue, are to be met with by 

 one travelling the continent from east to west. Like the Cro- 

 cuses of British gardens, they appear to gladden the eye, as soon 

 as the ground is clear of its winter covering, striving, as it were, 

 by their early yet modest forwardness, to satisfy the longings of 

 the impatient naturalist. The A. liichardsoniana, not a very 

 showy Anemone, is a stranger to the two provinces, but in the 

 north it sends up its yellow cup, where its more stately sisters 

 decline to reside. In the moss of pine barrens, it stretches along 



