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damp there, and nestled beneath them were plants of Asarum 
Canadense. The same morning I stood to my eyes (five feet) in 
masses of Expatorium ageratoides. It is a coarse but very showy 
plant with large corymbs of white flowers. It is abundant in 
Northern Maine. I mention the height of this plant to give some 
idea of the rank growth of the “weeds” in this county, and I 
will state here that I saw Verbascum Thapsus ten feet high, also 
Lactuca Canadensis, Go and see! I will not tell my aster story 
here, but will wait till we visit the place where I found it. Sedum 
Telephium is a very troublesome weed in some parts of the county, 
whole acres of land being overrun with it, and I am told that it 
has been there as long as the oldest inhabitants can remember. 
The only new plant which I found in the Swedish colony was 
Ribes lacustre. In riding from Caribou to Van Buren, a distance 
of twenty-two miles, the monotony of the wearisome ride was 
the landscape gorgeous. In the ride of forty-five miles along the 
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reached in Maine), we looked upon acres of the mammo ae 
of Solidago squarrosa. In the two and a-half montis ey 
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