1921] Fernald,— Expedition to Nova Scotia 101 



Lindsay's Catalogue it is recorded from Cumberland County, north 

 of the main peninsula of Nova Scotia and Professor H. G. Perry has 

 reported it 1 as scarce in the west-central portion of the province. 

 Lindsay also records the coastal plain Cypress or Cedar, Chamae- 

 cyparis, and Nichols has surmised 2 that a reputed Juniper on Digby 

 Neck may prove to be Chamaccyparis. Consequently, when we 

 discovered on Fernow's map that in Digby County there are two 

 bodies of water called "Cedar Lake," one at the head of Tusket 

 River, east of Corberrie, the other, lying partly in Yarmouth County, 

 northeast of Port Maitland, and giving the name to Cedar Lake post- 

 office, we promptly made inquiries about the tree which had sug- 

 gested the name. The inquiries, as usual, were fruitless, so on the 

 afternoon of July 11, having time for a short ride, we went by auto- 

 mobile to the nearer (the latter) Cedar Lake to settle the question 

 ourselves. On the way we paid our respects to Rubus, especially 

 to one ugly old brier with a profusion of fierce prickles, glands and 

 hispidity, the dominant blackberry of the region, which was promptly 

 dubbed by our romantic classicist " filius diaboli," a shrub strongly 

 simulating the coastal plain R. Andrewsianm Blanchard but with 

 strongly hispid as well as prickly and glandular canes. 



On a roadside near Darling Lake was the small yellow clover, 

 Trifolium dubium, a common weed from Cape Cod southward, after- 

 ward found by us at other stations in Yarmouth County as far south 

 as Belleville. North of Port Maitland the road passed near the 

 southern end of Beaver Lake and we were so attracted by the tre- 

 mendous inundated swale at its border, that we felt justified in tak- 

 ing a few minutes from the short time available for Cedar Lake to 

 sample it. The swale was a typical one, with a profusion of Scirpus 

 acutus Muhl., 3 Cladium mariscoides, Panicum spretum, Carex poly- 

 gama, Pogonia ophioglossoides, etc., and with them the usually mari- 

 time Triglochin maritima, here in highly acid peat. 



As we approached Cedar Lake we came upon a swale showy with 

 Potent ilia fruticosa which we had not seen before and which, with 

 its predilection for neutral or even calcareous soils, suggested that if 

 any cedar still grew in the region it would be Thuja. Accordingly 

 we were prepared, as the road came close to the lake, for the beautiful 



1 See Fernald, Rhodora, xxi. 55 (1919). 

 ! G. E. Nichols, Rhodora, xxi. 68 (1919). 

 ' See Fernald, Rhodoha, xxii. 55 (1920). 



