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Listera convallarioides, Ostrya virginiana, Laportea canadensis, Dcn- 

 taria dij.hylla, Geum canadense, virginianum and strictum, Circaca 

 latifolia Hill, 1 C. canadensis Hill, 2 Sanicula gregaria, and Viburnum 

 pubis, var. amerwanum from the alluvial or other rich woods; and 

 Sagittarui cuneata Sheldon (S. arifolia Nutt.), Carex riparia, var. 

 lacustris ^Willd.) Kiikenthal and Nymphozanthus rubrodiscus (Mowry) 

 Fernald,' from the pools. 



Only the impossibility of properly preserving such a bulk of choice 

 specimens without: driers and presses and the insistent demands of 

 our schedule could drag us at once away from a region so full of 

 interesting spots, and this in spite of the hotel at which we were 

 lodging. We were told that if we went to one of the hotels we should 

 wish we had gone to the other, so we went to the other. Afterward, 

 while visiting friends at Baddeck, we were told of one of their recently 

 departed guests who had wired back, much to the bewilderment 

 of the Gaelic telegraph-operator: "Spent a week this morning in 

 Truro!" They could not tell us where he breakfasted. 



Starting, by express, to Yarmouth our many bundles of specimens, 

 already laid out in white paper but without driers, we ourselves went 

 on the morning of July 20 to Middleton in the Annapolis Valley, a 

 fascinating trip with its diversity of landscape: the great reclaimed 

 marshes west of Truro; the ragged, white gypsum cliffs in the woods 

 which Pease and Long pointed out to us, and others near Windsor; 

 the grea : red-mud canons, deep down in the bottoms of which mean- 

 dered at low tide tiny streams soon to be changed by the Fundy tides 

 to broad and deep brick-red rivers; the great hayfields with the 

 monument to Evangeline at Grand Pre and beyond them Blomidon 

 capped with cloud; the miles and miles of apple and peach orchard 

 closely cultivated and putting to shame our neglected New England 

 orchards of rock-pastures and otherwise useless spots. Near Berwick 

 and from there to Wilmot were vast uncultivated plains carpeted, 

 wherever dry enough, with a close growth of the New Jersey pine 

 barren Corema Conradii, and, although these barrens were the finest 

 we saw, we had to content ourselves with small and unspoiled rem- 

 nants of them at Middleton. Unspoiled, because, although these 

 Corema heaths are forbidding enough in appearance and at the sur- 



1 See Fernald, Rhodora, xvii. 222 (1915). 

 • See Fernald, Rhodora, xix. 87 (1917). 

 3 Rhodora, xxi. 187 (1919). 



