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pieces, for which I got a trifle. Early in the following spring 

 I commenced labour again, and by the beginning of June had 

 amassed about fifty dollars, which, with as much more that I bor- 

 rowed from a friend, formed my stock of money for the next 

 summer's tour. I started in the beginning of June from Montreal, 

 and passing through Kingston, went to New York, then visited the 

 Falls of Niagara and Fort Erie, and crossed over to the United 

 States, Keeping along the eastern side of Lake Erie for ninety 

 miles, I afterwards took a direct course to Pittsburgh on the Ohio, 

 which, owing to the advanced state of the season, was the most 

 distant point to which I could attain. On my return I kept along 

 the side of the Alleghany river to Point Ollean, in the State of New 

 York, then visited the salt-works of Onondago and Sackett's 

 Harbour on Lake Ontario, whence, proceeding to Kingston, I 

 packed up my whole collection, with which I returned to Montreal, 

 and embarking in a vessel which was bound for Greenock, got 

 safely home; the plants which I carried with myself being the 

 whole that I saved out of the produce of nearly three years spent 

 in botanical researches." 



The descriptions of twenty-three species follow. Of these, 

 fifteen were considered new, including Viola Selkirkii, named in 

 MS. by Pursh, and Aspidium Gohlianum of Hooker's MSS. ; 



Banmtculm rhomboideus, Stellaria lowjipes, Drosera linearis, Corydalis 

 canadensis (now referred to IHcentra), Xylmteum obluwjifolinm 

 (I'Oincera), and Primula jntsilla, still retain specific rank. 



The account of the ■ Botanical Gazette ' gives the following 

 summary of the remainder of Goldie's life : 



11 On returning to Scotland, after this second American tour, he 

 ^as, in the year 1824, recommended by Mr. McNab, of the Edin- 

 burgh Botanical Gardens, to collect and take charge of a vessel- 

 load of plants to be taken to St. Petersburg for the starting of a 

 botanical garden there, in which mission he acquitted himself to the 

 satisfaction of his employers. On his return from this expedition 

 he settled down with his family in the nursery business, but 

 returned to Russia again in 1830, and made a collecting excursion 

 through the country, amongst some of the fruits of which was the 

 introduction to the English horticultural world of such plants as 

 the Picea pictita, Pavenia tenuifolia plena, &e. From this time till 

 the year 1844 he followed the business of nurseryman and florist 

 at the old home near by to the birthplace of the poet Burns, a few 

 toiles from the town of Ayr. ■ 



44 In 1844, having formed a favourable opinion of Canada West 

 as a place of emigration, in which he might have a chance to 

 better the circumstances of himself and family, he took ship with 

 his entire household for Montreal, and from there journeyed 

 Westward, and chose as a resting-place a spot near some of his 

 old-world neighbours, about a mile from Ayr, in the county of 

 Waterloo, when he died, surrounded by children, grandchildren, 

 ail <l great-grandchildren, last June, in his ninety-fourth year/* 



