Rhodora 
JOURNAL OF 
THE NEW ENGLAND BOTANICAL CLUB 
Vol. 20. June, 1918. No. 234 
NOTES ON THE FLORA OF NEW BRUNSWICK. 
S. F. BLASE. 
Tue plants recorded in the following list were collected by the writer 
during some seven weeks of the late summer of 1913 spent collecting 
for the Gray Herbarium along the coastal sands of New Brunswick 
and the adjacent small islands. The period from 12 August to 3 
September was spent at Bathurst on Bay Chaleur on the northern 
coast of the province, with side trips extending to Petit Rocher to 
the west, Miscou Island to the east, and the Drummond Iron Mine 
near Great Falls some distance in the interior from 4 September to 
29 September at Chatham and Newcastle, on the Miramichi River, 
whence excursions were made to Tracadie on the north, Richibucto 
on the south, and the islands along the mouth of the Miramichi River. 
The last day’s collecting in New Brunswick was done on 30 September 
at Moncton, on the Petitcodiac River. 
The region about Bathurst consists largely of glacial sands and 
gravels. A mile or two inland extensive “blueberry barrens” are 
met with, having such representative species as Lycopodium tristach- 
yum, Pinus Banksiana, Betula alba var. papyrifera, Myrica aspleni- 
folia, Salix humilis, Vaccinium canadense, V. pensilvanicum, and V. 
pensiluanicum var. nigrum. The coastal rocks are largely indurated 
clays and sandstones. At Petit Rocher there is a deposit of limestone, 
and in a nearby bog or its vicinity were collected such characteristic 
calciphiles as Carex aurea, Spiranthes Romanzoffiana, Salix candida, 
Betula pumila, Ranunculus Purshii, Parnassia caroliniana, Pyrola 
asartfolia, and Valeriana uliginosa. Along the sands of the coast, 
from Miscou Island southward, Myrica carolinensis, Betula populi- 
