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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 -