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lake several miles away, was also visited, but was chiefly 

 interesting for the surrounding moist and mossy woods, 

 which furnished a number of lichens and fungi. Good 

 specimens of the Newfoundland bog vegetation were 

 secured at what is known as Bally Haily Bog, a rich 

 peaty swamp but a mile or so from St. John's. 



The city streets and roadsides furnished, of course, their 

 quota of introduced weeds, which also have their indi- 

 viduality, as no two ports seem to attract just the same 

 class of these undesirable immigrants. Among those of 

 St. John's, perhaps the most notable seen was Lamium 

 incisum, of which only a single specimen w^as found. So 

 far as learned, this species has only once been accredited 

 to America, namely, by Bentham, in DeCandoIle's Pro- 

 droinus, who speaks of its collection in Xewfoundland by 

 La Pylaie. That the single plant now secured should be 

 a second introduction of this unusual immigrant to just 

 the same part of the coast seems rather improbable, but 

 it is also difficult to conceive of the species as having 

 persisted in the same locality for eighty years without 

 becomim^ more abundant. 



On leaving St. John's the writers visited Manuels, on 

 Conception Bay, collecting for some distance along the 

 rocky Manuels River as well as in the adjacent clearings 

 and marshy ground. Then, through the courtesy and 

 cordial liospitality of Messrs. W. I), and H. D. Eeid, 

 contractors for the Newfoundland Northern and Western 

 Bailway, an opportunity was afforded to visit the end of 

 this new line. The Newfoundland Northern Eailway 

 extends up the eastern coast for a distance of about two 

 hundred and fifty miles from St. John's and then turns 

 inland. At the time of our visit the headquarters of 

 construction was at the confluence of the Exploits Eiver 

 and liadger Brook, between thirty and forty miles from 

 the coast. The interior region thus gained, although con- 

 siderably north of St. John's, possessed a richer and 



