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     “On the rolling districts, affording the best agricultural 
     
     soils, beech, yellow birch, maple, oak, and white pine flourish, 
     
     with an undergrowth of' mountain maple, rowan, hazel, elder, 
     
     and thick-tangled brambles. Grasses carpet the soil, jewelled 
     
     with roses, convolvuli, and sweet-scented violets. These 
     
     plants belong to the Central Canadian flora. 
     
    

    
     “On the cold soils of the swamps and barrens a different 
     
     class of vegetation abounds. Spruces and sparse-foliaged 
     
     larches, poplars, birches, aspens, and moss-grown firs form 
     
     the timber growth; while a thick, shrubby carpet of Androm- 
     
     eda, ledum, whortleberries, and prostrate arbutus spreads at 
     
     their feet. These are members of the sub-Arctic flora, in- 
     
     habiting the far north of Canada, and penetrating even within 
     
     the Arctic Circle. Thus, two distinct floras occupy the two 
     
     distinct classes of soil common on the Island. 
     
    

    
     “Other peculiarities are noticeable. The cedar is confined 
     
     to Prince County. and we never saw the arum, the calapogon, 
     
     or the grand-flowered habinaria in other parts of the Island. 
     
     The hemlock is not found east of Saint Peter’s. The assem- 
     
     blage of plants on the triassic hills is something different 
     
     from that on permian districts. The sand-dunes have a 
     
     flora peculiar to themselves. And amid the surf-lashed 
     
     skerries of our rocky coasts, the lover of Nature will find a 
     
     distinct field of study in the algae, fucoids, and corrallins 
     
     of marine growth.” 
     
    
   
   
    
     *Fauna.A“The fauna of Prince Edward Island is numer— 
     
     ous and varied. A few larger animals, as the moose, the 
     
     caribou, the wolf, the raccoon, and the wolverine, which 
     
     roam over the continental lands, are excluded from the Island 
     
     by its insular position. But this is much more than com- 
     
     pensated by the numerous marine animals which inhabit our 
     
     coasts, and which afford some of the most interesting 
     
     studies of animal life.” 
     
    

    
     Of swimming, wading, singing and other birds there 
     
     are the genera common to most countries. Rabbits and 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
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