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tion of a plant well known to Quebecers, the blood 

 root (Sanguinaria), a dimunitive flower of frequent 

 occurrence, near the city, and barely waiting for the 

 departure of the snow to push through its stem, on 

 which a pure white inverted cap soon appears. 



" My June list of wild flowers about Quebec is as follows, 

 says Mr. Fairchild " : 



Bunch Berry, 



Wayside Plantain, 



Jewel Weed, 



Yellow Wood Sorel, 



Purple Flowering Raspberry, 



Common Mallow, 



Blue Flax, 



Labrador Tea, 



Black Snake Root, 



Early Wild Rose, 



Blue Eyed Grass, 



Food Flax, 



Chicoree, 



Dog Daisy, 



Wild Sweet Clover, 



Wintergreen, 



Blue Flag, 



Poison Ivy, 



Wild Sarsaparilla, 



Hedge Nettle, 



Partridge Berry, 



Dwarf Bleuberry, 



Black Mustard, 



Common Wild Mustard 



White Hawthorne, 



Sumac, 



Pale laurel, 



Small Cranberry, 



Mullein, 



False Spikenard, 



Milkweed, 



Wild Clematis. 



Mr. Fairchild, mentions also the following : 



Wild Apple, 



Shad flower, 



Wild Forget-me-not, 



Pitcher Plant, 



Bass Wood. 



Bastard Maple, 



Wild Vetch, 



Beach Pea, 



Meadow Rue, 



Three Leaved Ginseng 



Twin Flowered Honeysuckle, 



Wild Strawberry, 

 Dandelion, 

 Twisted Stalk, 

 White Clover, 

 Clintonia, 

 Hazel Nut, 

 Trailing Arbutus, 

 Trembling Poplar, 

 Baneberry, 

 Wild Currant, 

 Wild Gooseberry, 



I am aware that there are omissions in this list, some of 

 which are supplied, however, by those named by Mr. 

 Sturton occuring about Spencer Wood and the Gomin Road. 



G. M. Fairchild, Jr. 



