234 Clieney—Flora of the Lake Superior Legion. 
boundary between Minnesota and Ontario) from Grand Portage 
to Basswood Lake; from this lake, along the canoe route com¬ 
monly travelled, to Ely and Tower; and in the vicinity of Bar¬ 
ron, Wisconsin. The work was begun June 16th, at Fond du 
Lac. We were detained ten days at Grand Marais, awaiting 
the construction of a canoe. At Rove Lake we were obliged to 
wait four days for provisions. With these two exceptions, we 
never stopped longer than thirty-six hours at a place. We 
generally travelled ten to twelve miles each day, collecting on 
the way. We reached Tower August 3d, and went from there 
to Barron, where collecting was done a few days longer. 
The list of plants appended include four new to the region 
covered by Gray's Manual (last edition). Of these Ribes Hud- 
sonianum has not, I think, been previously reported from far¬ 
ther east than Montana; Carex obesa var. minor 1 2 has not been 
found before south ol the Saskatchewan. Ranunculus Lapponicus'* 
is new. to the United States. Deplophyllum Dicksoni is the 
fourth. The distribution of an introduced plant, Ranunculus 
ac?ns, seems worthy of special mention. It was observed at all 
old fishing stations along Lake Superior. At Grand Portage it 
literally covered the land occupied by the village, and also the 
adjoining fields,—perhaps fifteen acres in all. From this vil¬ 
lage the plant has been carried westward along the canoe route 
to the portage between North Lake and South Lake, a distance 
of sixty miles. It was observed at most of the portages be¬ 
tween the two points, usually at the landings. This distribu¬ 
tion was evidently effected either by travellers carrying the 
flowers or seed, intentionally or otherwise, or by the seed ad¬ 
hering to the hair of dogs or other animals. A similar distri¬ 
bution from the village may be looked for along other trails, or 
canoe routes. 
No attempt was made to collect specimens of the larger 
shrubs or trees; or in most cases, other plants known or sup¬ 
posed to be widely distributed. Such of these, however, as 
were identified have been inserted in the list. I desire to ac- 
1 See “Notes on Carex.” L. H. Bailey, Bot. Gaz., Vol XVII, No. 5. 
2 See “New and Noteworthy North American Plants.” John M. 
Coulter and Elmon M. Fisher. Bot. Gaz., Vol. XVII, No 8. 
