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Other coastal plain plants in Lindsay's list are Woodwardia mrginica, 

 Corema Conradii and our two species of Iludsonia, Nova Scotian 

 specimens of which have been well known, and the following for 

 which vouchers have been lacking: Cupressus (now Chamaecyparis) 

 thyoidcs, Eriocaulon decangular?, Xyris bulbosa (now X. torta), Juncus 

 marginatum Ilex opaca, Solidago odora and Coreopsis (now Bidens) 

 discoidea. 



The latter list has always been treated as based on errors of de- 

 termination, although the verification of the occurrence in Nova 

 Scotia of Ilex glabra, the fully authenticated occurrence there of 

 Schizaea pusilla and the recent discovery 1 there of a single plant of 

 the Golden Crest, Lophiola, a genus supposed to reach an isolated 

 northern outpost in the pine barrens of New Jersey, have tended to 

 render Lindsay's list less incredible. Furthermore, we must not 

 forget that specimen of Ceratiola ericoides Michx. 2 recorded as long 

 ago as 1842 by Edward Tuckerman. Ceratiola is a monotypic genus 

 of shrubs of the Empetraceae, supposed to be restricted to pine barrens 

 from South Carolina to Florida and Alabama. But Tuckerman, 

 in recording the occurrence in Lambert's herbarium of Corema Con- 

 radii (as Oakesia), said to have come from "Newfoundland, Cor- 

 mack," appended this important note: 



" The small label at the top of the sheet which contains this speci- 

 men (apparently not original) reads as follows: — l Cisfusf from Nova 

 Scotia.' Above has been written by the late Prof. Don 'Ceratiola 

 cericoides [ericoides],' in the same envelope with a fine and female 

 specimen of which plant it is, singularly, placed." 3 



Whether the Ceratiola actually came from Nova Scotia had, of 

 course, long been in doubt, but in view of other pine barren species 

 demonstrated to occur there, the shrub was worth keeping in mind. 



Altogether, the list of southern coastal plain plants reported 

 from Nova Scotia numbered between 30 and 40, some of them with- 

 out vouchers; others, like Schizaea pusilla, Lophiola and Ilex glabra, 

 supported by actual modern specimens. They had all been dis- 

 covered or reported at scattered intervals and mostly by different 

 observers and it seemed apparent that they must be extremely local 

 plants. In view of the occurrence, especially in eastern Newfound- 



i See Nichols, Rhodora, xxi. OS (1919). 



2 In this report the authors are included only for species not in Gray's Man., ed. 7. 



8 Tuckerm. in Hook. Lend. J own. Bot. i. 445 (1841'). 



