SOO THE CANADIAN NATUHALIST. 
we did not walk more than a mile and a half on it^ when I 
perceived by the increasing light among the trees that we 
were approaching a large opening. 
We now pressed eagerly on_, and found that we had reach- 
ed the borders of the Brule, which was not a clearing, as I 
had expected, but was covered with a stunted and ragged 
growth of moss-grown spruce, from eight to twelve feet in 
height, exactly resembling the small woods of Newfound- 
land, on the borders of the large marshes. I found also the 
same plants that inhabit such situations in that country, 
and which I now saw for the first time in Canada. The 
ground was covered with the same spongy moss, with shrubs 
of Indian Tea ( Ledum Latifolium J, Sheep Laurel ( Kalmia 
Angustifolia ), Swamp Laurel ( Kahnia Glaum J, and other 
Newfoundland plants. The last two are there called Gould; 
they bear bunches of pretty little pink flowers, nearly circu* 
lar, the stamens radiating very regularly, and their anthers 
forming a circle within the edge of the corolla : — the first, 
whose leaves, bent downwards at the edge, are thickly clothed 
on the under surface with a close yellow fur, is often infu&ed 
and drunk as tea ; the infusion is bitter, but is relished by 
many. I also recognised numbers of another old acquaint- 
ance, an exceedingly curious plant, the Indian Cup, or Pitcher 
Plant ( Sarracenia Purpurea ) : the leaves of this plant 
have their edges united together, each one forming a deep 
and capacious cup, always filled with water, not, I think, 
collected rain, as is generally supposed, but distilled from 
the marsh, through the pores of the plant : minute flies 
and other insects are often found drowned in these natural 
reservoirs. The leaves are sometimes green, but more com-^ 
monly dark red, always with the nerves ramified in an infi- 
nite number of red veins over the surface ; their bases are 
crimson, each one partly sheathing the next, but this part is 
usually concealed among the moss. From the bed of leaves 
