. Travels into North America [microform] : containing its natural history, and a circumstantial account of its plantations and agriculture in general : with the civil, ecclesiastical and commercial state of the country, the manners of the inhabitants, and several curious and important remarks on various subjects. Natural history; Natural history; Natural history; Sciences naturelles; Sciences naturelles; Sciences naturelles. Augiift 1749. of the other fort have an agreeable fouruefs, and a pleafant tafte *. The three-leaved Hellebore f grows in great plenty in the woods, and in many places it
. Travels into North America [microform] : containing its natural history, and a circumstantial account of its plantations and agriculture in general : with the civil, ecclesiastical and commercial state of the country, the manners of the inhabitants, and several curious and important remarks on various subjects. Natural history; Natural history; Natural history; Sciences naturelles; Sciences naturelles; Sciences naturelles. Augiift 1749. of the other fort have an agreeable fouruefs, and a pleafant tafte *. The three-leaved Hellebore f grows in great plenty in the woods, and in many places it co- vers the ground by itfelf. However, it com- monly choofes moffy places, that are not very wet /and the wood-forrel %, with the Mountain Enchanters Night-Jhade ||, are its companions. Its feeds were not yet ripe, and muft of the ftalks had no feeds it all. This plant is called Tijfa' voyanne jaiine by the French, all over Canada. Its leaves and ftalks are uled by the Indians, for giving a fine yellow colour to feveral kinds of work, which they make of prepared Ikins. The French, who have learned this from them, dye wool and other things yellow with this plant. We climbed with a great deal of difficulty to the top of one of the higheft mountains here, and I was vexed to find nothing at its fummit, but what I had feen in other p?rts of Canada be- fore. We had not even the pleafurc of a pro- fpedl, becaufe the trees, with which the moun- tain is covered, obftruded it. The trees thatl grow here are a kind of horn-beam, or Carpmim Oftrya, Linn, xht American elm, the red maple, thefugar-maple, that kind of maple which cures fcorched wounds (which I have not yet defcrib- cd), the beech, the common birch-tree, the • The kind called Cerifter by i\ie French, I defcribed thus hA journal:. Cerafmfoliis ovaiis/enafis,/erratun's profundi: fire[ubuliA raccm-fo. The other thus: Ctrafus foliis Imeolatis, («-j naio-Jerratis, ofuiis, fr u£iu fert rio. f Helleborus trifv)l
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