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HULLETIX OF THE NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY. 
the wind in your favor, a very near approach to the animals can be 
made. Tlie older and tougher portions of the root stocks of the yellow 
pond lilies cover the surface of the lakes sometimes, especially along 
the shore, to such an extent that it is difficult to make a landing from 
a canoe. Whether such a wholesale destruction is caused by moose 
and by beavers, which are also said to feed upon these, or whether it 
is caused by the ice in winter freezing dovv^n to them and raising them 
up with the mud in the spring freshets, we could not decide. Along 
with these the white, sweet-scented Pond Lily was growing, whose 
root stocks are also said to be relished by moose. Then there were 
Erasenia peltata, numerous potamogetons, Tiimnanthemum lacunosum, 
the horsetail, Equisetum limosum, very abundant, a grass whose bright 
steel blue leaves lay on the surface of the water — Glyceria borealis — 
which turns out to be a new plant to the province, many sedges, 
especially carices, with some half dozen species also new to the pro- 
vince. A fuller report of the new and rare plants is given in an 
appendix in Bulletin Number XIX. 
The farthest point examined in these lakes, the waters of which find 
their way to Trowsers Lake, was a small lake in the form of a triangle, 
its vertex pointing to the south-east. Into this flowed a stream of ice- 
cold water from springs in the hills beyond, indicating the sources of 
the southwest branch of the Tobique. The lake was shallow, with 
low-lying grounds around, the shores covered with flat stones, and 
numerous moose and deer paths leading to the water’s edge. In the 
meadow, bordering the stream that flowed into this lake, were found 
Iris versicolor, Osmunda regalis, O. claytonana, Onoclea struthiopterisy 
Ranunculus abort! vus, R. septentrionalis. Cal la palustris, with 
droseras and violets in profusion ; and Hydrocotyle, Nasturtium 
palustre, several carices and the moss, Fontinalis antipyretica — all 
lovers of cold water. 
The country about the sources of the South Tobique River has- 
Vjeen untouched by forest fires. May it long remain so ! Owing to 
its remoteness, it has not been lumbered to any great extent. Far as 
the eye can reach from the top of some lofty pinnacle, it is a great 
evergreen forest — the country of the spruces — the swamps and lake 
Viorders covered with the slender black spruce of the swamps, the 
higher grounds and ridges covered with red spruce, that valuable 
timber tree, intermingled with birches, maples, and a few pines. 
