1921] Fernald — Expedition to Nova Scotia 139 



fast next morning Linder conducted me to the spot where we laid a 

 good supply of freshly flowering specimens into folds of paper and he 

 secured a good portrait of the growing plant. Subsequently, to be 

 sure, the species proved to be ubiquitous in western Nova Scotia so 

 that we got it in all stages of development, even to the large bushy- 

 branched plants 3.5 dm. high with mature fruit, but it was gratifying 

 to have a series from the type station. Dr. Harold St. John also 

 collected the plant on Sable Island in 1913 so that it will doubtless 

 prove to be generally distributed in the silicious areas of the province. 

 Our col ections embrace 25 numbers and the characters originaly 

 pointed out by Greene are amazingly constant: the broadish rather 

 fleshy haves (which do not quickly curl as do the linear-attentuate 

 leaves of Agalinis paupercula); the very long and foliaceous sca- 

 brous-serrulate calyx-lobes and the almost tubular little corolla with 

 only slightly spreading lobes. To Greene's statement of characters 

 should be added the facts that the mature capsule is shorter than to 

 barely equalling the calyx, and that the mature calyx-lobes tend to 

 beeome divergent. The corollas have no yellow lines in the tube, 

 but whether this character is diagonistic can be determined only by 

 further observation of fresh material of A. paupercula. Altogether 

 the plant seems to be a clearly marked species.' 



On July 21 we had the first break in our party and one which we 

 keenly ielt, for every one who knows Stanley Pease, his quick wit and 

 kindly humor, will appreciate the loss we felt when he took the first 

 train to Digby, thence to return to "the States." He and I spent a 

 short norning, until his train left, on the plains about Middleton, 

 collecting better material of some of the specialties but adding little 

 of impcrtance to the discoveries of the day before. Bissell, Bean, 

 White and Linder drove across the North Mountain to the shore of 

 the Bay of Fundy at Margaretville, bringing back such well-known 

 plants of this basaltic coast as Iris sctosa, var. canadensis, Primila 

 farinose, var. macropoda and Euphrasia purpurea, var. Randii. Long 

 spent an exasperatingly short hour testing the rich woods and swales 

 on the southern slope of the basaltic North Mountain, just glimpse 

 enough for him to yearn all summer for another and extended visit 

 to the slope where he had collected Equisctum scirpoides, Poa costata, 



1 Agalinis neoscctica (Greene'), n. comb. Gerardia neoscotica Greene, Leaflets, 

 ii. 106 C910). A. paupercula (Gray) Britton, var. neoscotica (Greene) Pennell & 

 St' John, Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist, xxxvi 93 (l92l). 



