140 Rhodora [Junk 



Carex scabrata, J uncus Dudleyi, Trillium crcctum, Corallorhiza macu- 

 lafa, Dentaria dipkylla, Geranium Robert i ami m and Osmorhiza dirari- 

 cata, the latter a northern species new to the western counties but 

 previously found by Nichols in Cape Breton and afterward collected 

 also by Long and me about gypsum talus in Cape Breton. 



We reached Yarmouth that evening and the next three days were 

 occupied until late in the evenings with our presses. The 5000 

 driers proved wholly inadequate, for Yarmouth was wrapped in its 

 conventional blanket of fog and sun-drying was out of the question. 

 We had already been driven to various expedients to meet the pene- 

 trating dampness and now with great regularity, as soon as corru- 

 gated ventilators had been inserted, the presses were stacked high 

 in a square about the kerosene stove or suspended over it from the 

 ratters. The wet driers for immediate use had to be "toasted" 

 while such as could be allowed a more prolonged aeration were tucked 

 end-on into chinks in the rough boarding of the empty hay-loft. 

 The act of thus fitting the rough ends of the driers into shallow 

 chinks from which they drooped soon became a real art and with the 

 aid of a ladder we were eventually able thus to decorate the rough 

 sloping walls of the loft with nearly 2000 driers at one turn. 



The 23rd was for us an unfortunate day, for Bissell felt that he 

 must get home but he had had a taste of Nova Scotia botanizing 

 and the leaven continued to work after he got back to Connecticut; 

 for later in the summer he took another vacation and one morning 

 appeared ready for work just as we were going down to breakfast. 

 On the afternoon of the 24th there was time for a short half-day's 

 collecting so the amended party, Long, Bean, White, Linder and 

 1 went after the weeds of the docks, railroad yards and waste heaps 

 of Yarmouth. We scattered in different directions and the more 

 interesting weeds of the day included typical Sisymbrium officinale, 

 apparently commoner in Nova Scotia than var. leioearpum, Coronopus 

 didymua, Lepidium Draba, Iberia amara L., and' Carduus acanthoides, 

 Next day, July 25, we were ready for field work and since, on the 

 earlier visit, we had had only a glimpse of either Beaver Lake or 

 Cedar Lake, we went there; Long and Linder stopping off for the day 

 at Beaver Lake; Bean, White and I going on to Cedar Lake. Many 

 of the plants of July 1 lth were now in splendid condition, the cespi- 

 tose and nearly beardless Pogonia ophioglossoides forming extensive 

 colonies with well-formed fruit, and, abundantly intermixed with it 



