railway from thai point to tin* north shore of lake Superior for 

 the transportation of ore. brought in many miners, shop keepers 

 and adventurers, and lias built np the village of Tower t" about 

 a thousand inhabitants. The summer season is soshort ami un- 

 certain that almost the only erop which can be safely grown is 

 that of potatoes. Owing to the recent ami Limited settlement, 

 ami to the great restriction <>i agricultural operat ions, the intro- 

 duced weeds of the region are aecessarily lew: careful attention 



Was given to their collection, ami the result is shown in the 

 general list. It is worth mentioning that the introduced and 



cultivated plants were accompanied by their usual fungous para- 

 site abundance of Perouospora occurred upon Chenopodium 

 album, and of Cystopus upon A.marantus retroflexus, while the 

 small patches of \ ery dwarf Indian coin bore quite as much Puc- 

 cinia as usually prevails in a more congenial climate. 

 Other features of t he flora of t he region are men! ioned by Pro- 

 i Bailey in the following article. 



SKETCH OF III I : FLORA OF \ Kh'MIUOX LAKE AM) 



VICINITY. 



]\\ L. H. Bailey, Jk. 



In .some respects the flora of this region is anomalous, in 



most of its features it differs little from that of central Michigan 



to the southward. This southern cast to the flora 



timls a ready explanation, however, in the fact that Vermilion 



lake is separated from the cooling influences of lake Superior by 



a degree of primeval forest It is probably aot so much the 



character of the winters as that of the summers which influences 



the distribution of plants in these latitudes. The snow must 



afford great protection to all vegetation at this place, and the 



summers, although short, are warm and the atmosphere is dry. 



All herbs of a more southern range hud ample time to reach 



maturity, and the Ligneous vegetation simply makes a smaller 



Lcrnwth. This latter statement is confirmed i>\ the small size of 



Dearly all forest trees. Large sawing timber is not common. In 



an apparently primeval pine forest, we found few trees above 



I or ten inches in diameter, and one measuring some sis or 



n inches was about a hundred yean eld. There are almost 



no distinctively northern or sub-boreal plants in the flora. The 



most eonspicious ones are Rosa acicularid, Ainus viridis, Spar- 



am simplex vari Saltans, Balis balsamifera, Lycopodium 



