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LOPHIOLA AUREA IN NOVA SCOTIA. 
GrorGcE E. NicHors. 
A Few months ago, in a letter to the writer, Miss Margaret Brown, 
of Halifax, an enthusiastic amateur botanist, casually remarked that 
she had just received a specimen of Lophiola aurea from near Digby, 
Nova Scotia. Lophiola aurea in Nova Scotia? Surely there must be 
some mistake. 
But there is no mistake. At the writer's request Miss Brown has 
submitted the specimen for examination, and it is unquestionably 
Lophiola: a fine, large specimen, in full flower and quite 20 inches tall. 
Thus another species is added to that remarkable assemblage of plants, 
exemplified by Schizaea pusilla and Corema Conradi, characteristic of 
the New Jersey pine barrens, or of the coastal plain from New Jersey 
southward, but occurring at more or less widely separated stations 
along the coast northward to Newfoundland. "The specimen has been 
deposited in the Herbarium of Yale University. 
The following notes regarding the Nova Scotia station for Lophiola 
aurea have been furnished by the discoverer, Mr. E. Chesley Allen; 
of Truro. The specimen was collected on Sept. 6, 1917, between 
Little River and East Ferry, Digby County. The locality is described 
as a low, boggy swale which runs parallel with the post-road from 
Little River to East Ferry. The area is probably not more than two 
or three hundred yards wide, perhaps two or three miles long, and 
more or less broken up by higher land. Scattered over the surface 
are frequent small, stagnant ponds. The vegetation is largely grass- 
like, with various low shrubs, and with sphagnum locally abundant. 
Mr. Allen remarks the presence of what he took to be a species of 
Juniperus other than the common J. communis: possibly it was 
Chamaecyparis. About the only other plant noted was a species of 
Utricularia. The area did not seem to be a typical bog, and Mr. 
Allen’s description suggests strongly the wet savannahs which are the 
favorite haunt of this plant in southern New Jersey. The specimen 
collected was the only one seen, but Mr. Allen was in search of surgical 
sphagnum and did not appreciate at the time the importance of his 
discovery. In view of the comparative accessibility of the area it is 
to be hoped that it can be explored more thoroughly in the near future. 
SHEFFIELD SCIENTIFIC SCHOOL, YALE UNIVERSITY. 
