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Grand River, P. Q. , 



July 3, 1904 



Dear Dr. Kennedy: 



You will be glad to know of the success I have had in my 

 three days at Grand River. I reached the town late Wednesday evening, 

 and was brought up here to Mr. Cabot's camp Thursday morning by Cyrille 

 Leroi , the Micmac guardian of the river. Mr. Cabot and Mr. Richards 

 have been having very good fishing, the only fishing in Gasp* according 

 to the reports from other rivers. And we have had some fine botan- 

 izing. I brought 300 double sheets here and in three days have loaded 

 them inside and out with 1200 specimens of 125 significant species, so 

 that I have duplicates for the few most interested in them. 



You would revel in good things if you were here, good bed and 

 food, a big fire, and the greatest luxuriance of plants I ever imagined. 

 More than 200 spring things are now in flower, many of them, like the 

 Cyprinediums , Senecios, Erigerons, Anemones, Pinguiculas, Oxytropis, 

 Dryas, etc. very showy. Cypripediums , spectabile, pubescens, & par- 

 viflorum, grow by millions on the ledges or in the gravel, side by side 

 with shepherdia, Prunus pumlla, Oxytropis, Hedusarum and other rock 

 species. The Anemones are splendid, riparia with great white flowers 

 rivalling canadensis, multifida, both red and white, parviflora with white 

 and blue flowers, and two puzzles, apparently new, each two feet high, 

 one with white, the other with red flowers fully 2 in. across. These 

 are only just in flower and I must wait for fruit until my August visit. 

 The willows, too, are beauties. S. discolor, cordata, rostrata, Can- 

 dida and myrbilloides are the only Massachusetts species. But there 

 are many others — S. pellita, glaucophylla and probably glauca (Aortic)? 

 glaucapa (Canadian Rockies), Novae-Angliae (described from Richardson* s 



