Gasterosteus Pungitius ? L, ?
Sub-genus Gasterosteus. Cuv. R ig . A n. ii. p. 300.
Great numbers of small fish of this genus were observed, in the spring of 1820,
in a small pond in the neighbourhood of Cumberland-House. We are inclined to
refer them to the above-mentioned species, but the description of them not having
been preserved, we are unable to do so with certainty. Specimens, which were put
in spirits, were destroyed on their way home.
No. VII.
BOTANICAL A P P E N D IX ,
BY
JOHN RICHARDSON, M.D.
Member of the Wernerian Natural History Society of Edinburgh.
T he following list of plants is not offered, as containing any thing like a full catalogue
of the Flora of the country through which we travelled. During our summer
journeys, only a small portion of time could be allotted to Botanical researches, and
the constant and more important duties of the other officers prevented them from aiding
me in collecting objects of Natural History, which they were otherwise anxious to do.
Under such circumstances, a large proportion of plants must have escaped our notice,
and the disasters attending our return across the Barren Grounds from the sea-
coast, caused us to l^ave behind the whole collection made during the summer of
1821, with the exception of a few plants collected during the descent of the Copper-
Mine River, which were intrusted to Mr. W entzel’s care when he left us. The part
of the collection, which is lost, contained some plants, which I deemed to be new or
curious.
In drawing up the list, imperfect as it is, I have-received.much assistance from able
botanists. To Mr. Brown I am under the greatest obligations, not only for the liberal
use of the Herbarium and Library, which, so happily for science, have been placed
in his possession; but also for the friendly manner in which he aided my researches,
and condescended to solve the doubts so frequently presenting themselves to one little
versant in these pursuits.. In addition to this general assistance, he kindly superintended
the botanical drawings, and has enriched my catalogue with the lists of the
Cyperoideaè (including the Carices), the Gramme®, Junci and Filices, and, with the
accounts of the genera Eutoca, Heuchera, and Cryptogramma.
The collections of Pallas and Pursh, now belonging to Mr. Lambert, rendered the
power of referring to his valuable Herbarium, an object of thé utmost importance to
me ; and the desire of promoting the science, which so eminently distinguishes his
character, induced him cheerfully to accord it.
Professor Schwaegrichen, when iii London, named the Musci, which renders that
part of the list of high authority ; and Dr. Hooker, by undertaking the examination
of the Lichènes, has stamped a value upon a portion of the catalogue, upon which it
was peculiarly desirable to have the opinion and authority of an eminent cryptoga-
mic botanist.
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