Flora and Fauna 



fidus, Pursh., Xanthoxylum Americanum, Mill., Houstonia 1887 

 caerulea, L., and Asplenium ebeneum, Ait., rare plants in ay 

 western New York. Queenston Heights have yielded us 

 Anemonella thalictroides, Spach., Asimina triloba, Dunal, 

 Lupinus perennis, L., Frasera Carolinensis, Walt, and Celiis 

 occidentalis, L., — species scarcely found elsewhere in our vicin- 

 ity. Of Foster's Flat, above Queenston, it may be said that the 

 spring seems to visit its rocky fastnesses some weeks earlier than 

 the table-land above. Among its uncommon plants, it may be 

 mentioned that Professor Macoun and Dr. Burgess have detected 

 Aspidium Lonchiies, Swartz, and Aspidium Dootii, Tuckm., — 

 ferns whose accustomed range is a hundred miles northward. 

 The woods near the whirlpool, on the Canadian side, produce in 

 abundance Cerastium arvense, L., Arctostaphylos Ura-ursi, 

 Spreng., Castilleia coccinea, Spreng., and the only sassafras trees 

 known in the neighborhood of the Falls. The low land, near 

 Clifton, on the Canadian side, only a few inches higher than the 

 river, affords such uncommon plants as Centiana serrata, Gunner, 

 and Parnassia Caroliniana, Michx., Calaminiha Nuttallii, Benth., 

 still grows on the damp rocks, near the border of the river, and 

 Gerardia purpurea, L., and Utricularia cornuia, Michx., appear 

 sparingly in the wet and oozy soil near by. 



Of the 909 species of plants named in the Catalogue, 758 are 

 native and 151 foreign. 



Day, David. Catalogue of the Niagara flora. A catalogue of the 

 flowering and fern-like plants growing without cultivation in the vicinity 

 of the Falls of Niagara. (Troy:) The Troy Press. 1888. 



1889 



PANTON, J. HoYES. Flora of Queen Victoria Niagara Falls park. 18 89 

 (Ann. rep'ts of the com'rs for Queen Victoria Niagara Falls park. " anton 

 1889. 4:17-31.) 



A partial list, comprising " 71 orders, 261 genera, and 458 species," 

 by the professor of natural history and geology at Ontario Agricultural 

 College. 



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