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wild flowers blooming in the middle of July were the dandelion 
and Potentilla anserina. Another Potentilla was the P. tridentata, 
the mountain trident, with its three-toothed leaf and modest 
white flower. It was pleasant to see this flower, so familiar from 
my earliest childhood, as it flourishes on the plains of Brunswick, 
Me., and is common on Mt. Washington as well as on the mount- 
ains of Maine, and abounds on the bare spots about Moosehead 
lake, particularly at the foot of Mt. Kineo. The wild currant, 
strawberry and raspberry were in flower; the strawberry plants 
were luxuriant, sometimes eight inches in height, but the rasp- 
berries were dwarfed, not exceeding the strawberry in height. 
Up the rivers the raspberries and blackberries are abundant, but 
the latter low and dwarfish. 
The shad bush (Amelanchier canadensis) was now in flower, 
blossoming in Southern New England in April or early May, 
while Rubus chamæmorus, the cloud berry, so abundant in Green- 
land and Arctic America as well as on the fields of Norway and 
Sweden and the “ tundras” of Siberia, was going out of flower. 
With it were associated the star-flower, Trientalis americana, a 
few Clintonia borealis, Smilacina bifoliata and probably S. stellata, 
Streptopus amplexifolia ; one or two species of Andromeda; an 
Iris, species of Vaccinium, the Arctostaphylus uva-ursi or bear 
berry; the shore pea, a honeysuckle (Lonicera coerulea), a Vibur- 
num, and also the buckbean (Menyanthes trifoliata). 
Among the flowers fluttered the white butterfly (Pieris frigida), 
a Colias labradorensis, Argynnis triclaris and some geometrid 
moths, while a few owlet moths flew out of the grass at the late 
twilight, which now lasted until near eleven o'clock at night, 
when fine print could be read. 
We were told that the average temperature in June here is 48°, 
that of July 56°. In the warmer days of summer the thermom- 
eter rises from 64° to 68°, rarely to 70°. July 17th was one of 
the warmest and most pleasant days of the month ; the tempera- 
ture was 60° F. The 21st, however, was much warmer, the ther- 
mometer being 72° F. : 
July 18th was the day of the eclipse ; the sun was obscured in 
theforenoon; the light of day was much modified, though not 
approaching twilight. The steamer which we saw on the day of 
the storm in the Gulf of St. Lawrence was without doubt that 
which bore the Coast Survey eclipse party to Cape Chidleigh, 
where the eclipse was total.. 
(To be continued.) 
