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Botany of the Upper St. John. 
strongly scented as the Tanaceturn vulgare, or more common tansy 
of the fields and gardens. This Tanaceturn Huronense is a western 
plant, and was discovered for the first time in New England by 
Prof. Goodale a few years ago on his trip down the St. John. It 
occurs in great abundance along the river as far as Fredericton, 
preferring the sandy beaches, and springing up as soon as the 
freshet subsides. This year I noticed it for the first time on the 
Lower St. John, a few patches of it growing along shore near the 
foot of Long Reach. 
Equally abundant also are the leguminous plants, Astragalus 
alpinus and Oxytropis campestris, which I noticed from the mouth 
of the St. Francis for some distance below Grand Falls. Growing 
along the shore, and more especially among the disintegrating slate 
rocks, is Tofieldia glutinosa, a plant of the lily family. The last 
station at which I noticed it was the mouth of the Tobique. 
On the ledges of calciferous slate which frequently extend into the 
river on the Upper St. John, the beautiful Anemone multifida may 
be seen growing, and near it the Anemone Virginiana. I was un- 
able to find Anemone parviflora which is described by Prof. Goodale 
as being abundant on the slate rocks of the St. John. 
In 1879 I reported Vaccinium caespitosum, a dwarf species of blue 
berry, from Lake Temiscouta, province of Quebec, and it was then 
placed among the N. B. plants for the first time, and as likely to 
occur on the extreme northern border of the Province, or on high 
hills further south. This year I found very fine specimens of it 
both in flower and fruit on the St. Francis, and on the Upper St. 
John, iust above Fort Kent, but it soon disappeared as we descended 
the river. 
Coming out of the St. Francis River we get a magnificent view of 
the St. John River from the adjacent hills. Looking further up, the 
valley narrows and the river appears to be shut in by almost perpen- 
dicular hills. Looking down river the basin is broader, and the 
river here and there is dotted with Islands, luxuriant with grass and 
foliage. Further back from the banks are those magnificent and 
fertile terraces, formed in the long forgotten past, and further back, 
crowning the brows and summits of the hills, is a dark back ground 
of evergreen, the whole forming such a delightful picture of rural 
loveliness as may seldom be seen, even in this beautiful Province of 
