Diary of trip to Canada, 1904 June 29-August 19 and Plants of Alpine and Subalpine Regions, Mt. Albert, 1905-1906, 1904-1906
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Met at boat by Cyrille Servi, Guardian of The Grand River. Cyp. a gentlemanly Indian. Too late to go up river tonight, so Cyrille leaves me at the comfortable home of John Carberry. June 30 - After Breakfast found a pubescent small form of Camniculus about everywhere in grassland, Mrs. C. directs my attention to a small Cedar swamp where "archids" (Sanacenia) grows. Great Botany. Ordinary Cedar swamps things, 6 among them Sciurus capitifrons, many good willows. S. candida here, more life to S. glauca splendidly fruiting, S. Nova-Angliae, low sprawling shrub with glossy foliage, but as at N.C in 1902 no fruit, S. mystelina etc. The Viola of Marastill swamps abundant & beautifully flowers, clearly a bog state of river beach plant, In the mossy knolls under Empetrum & Ledum Robus arcticus in beautiful flowers - flowers rosy pink, the Cedar lections, firm & slightly glutinous, Some plants with habit of R. triflorus & seeming to pass into it. Cyrille came at 9 o'clock with his son John Took me up river. Splendid cliffs almost the length of the river, with occasional alluvial of gravelly flats. The common hick -