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APPENDIX. 



THE PLANTS OP THE MANITOULIN CSLAND8 



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JOHN BELL, M.A., M D. 



plums whose names are contained in the following lis 1 , | collected during the 

 »um: .'while with my brother., me of the islands 



of the Mmt .ulin gro ip. The liil acomplete one of th- Bora of the district 



examined, as the collection of plants was made entirely subordinate to the proper work 

 of the ex edition. I rtuoities afforded at various stations from 



Owen S no 1 n rthwaitl, to make notes of the local flora, and collect specimens, in orde, 

 to aseerta n ll •" many plants in that interesting region. 



Most of the plants ■ khurn, Druramond and St Joseph Islands the 



r» ,0 S ;c » ■ •■ was the object of ■ -,.,. Some of the smaller islands 



were al-o touched at, and a visit to Gore Bay, on the north side of Grand Manitoolin 



Island, enabled a D that point, and from the interior 



y*V be ii!a ' f It While detains! a few days at Owen 



cJSoJind. preri «* t , starting, I collet in difTerent directions, and found several 



If rare species ol lasariutl* and in abundance on or near the limestone 



■ to the south-west of the town. A numb , also obtained 



it the Bruce Mines and in the vicinity, on two differ ,„ 8 . 



eal geography of the . , . n , ioneii . . ^ r , n ,;, lf . rrlb , and 



J "'"• S oh Island i S for the gr,.,, e r part of its extent, somewhat 



...1 anl gravel, covered over with a thin layer of 

 3 "*•«*"« «■ gradually from the lake »fa | a tbe Iui ,j, e of 



• tbe island. Nearly ,n its wever, there is a de| ■•„,„ of w i, jch is 



occ l mall lake. On the dry gravelly soil of 3 „ rv h 



J growth of bard-wood forest was found, consisting of beech, hard maple, hemlock bass- 

 wood, black and yellow birch, with a f-w , ..., y wnU( . ,,;„„ . wl|i]( . on , he lowef 



v were almost replaced by black ash, eedaa, balm-of-Gilead and aspen- 

 s' poplar. b„,am-fir, elm, mountain-ash. and many small and arborescent shrubs The red 

 elder was very conspicuous by its abnndance and tbe profusion of its clusters of bright 

 m the circumstance that this island is immediately in the course of 

 . >th the Americ ,o and Canadi-m steamers and other vessels, large quantities of cord-wood 

 ire aow e ■' them. In the fat , no doub , lbat tbe forest3 of (his 



^ island will be of great value for fire-wood, if not for timber. 



a averse across the island, from Hilton town-plot, on tbe north side, to Richardson's 

 . on the south, was made on in- so that the plants ment 



and at these places, and in tbe int erior of the island, were collected on that and the fol- 

 M Keport by Mr. Bobert B« page 100. 





