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trip to Halifax we had noted along the bay south of Barrington some 

 very attractive white sand hills and, since the nearest approach to 

 such a habitat we had yet explored was the barrier beaches, we started 

 on the morning of August 7 for Barrington. The train, as usual, 

 was crowded and I found myself sharing a seat with a most interest- 

 ing companion, Mr. John Kelly, Superintendent of the Lighthouses 

 of western Nova Scotia and the Bay of Fundy. Mr. Kelly greatly 

 relieved my mind by assuring me that the period of fog, which was 

 still at its height and which had already lasted without interruption 

 for more than 300 hours, was in reality abnormally protracted, most 

 summer fogs of western Nova Scotia lasting less than 100 hours 

 without at least a few hours of sunshine. From Barrington we were 

 driven to Villagedale where the best dunes are situated, great white 

 dunes invading the forest and in the rolling fog marvelously specta- 

 ular and magnified. As usual, there were broad flats among the 

 hills, but Xyris uiontana of the quagmires seemed strangely out of 

 place in such a habitat. LimoseUa subulata, Sagina nodosa and 

 Polygonum Rati Bab. 1 were there, as we had hoped, and so was the 

 always interesting Tillaea aquatica. ,1 uncus bufonius, luxuriating in 

 the brackish sand, had amazingly large flowers (sepals up to 9 mm. 

 long) but Viola primulifolia, wandering in from the acid areas, was 

 fruiting though its leaves were less than 1 cm. in length. J uncus 

 Oreenei, the commonest species on Cape Cod, and formerly known 

 eastward only to Mt. Desert Island, was abundant with Carez silicca. 

 Returning to Barrington on Monday, the 9th, we drove eastward 

 to Clement Pond. Three weeks earlier this pond had been most 

 attractive from the train, with a well exposed beach, but now, after 

 weeks of wet weather the beach was deeply submerged and travel 

 was difficult. At the southeast corner of the pond (just why this 

 large body of fresh water should be called a pond, while thousands 

 of others like it are lakes we were unable to make out) the shore is a 

 quaking bog, with characteristic growth of Woodwardia virginica 

 and Decodon irrficillaius, var. laevigatas, T. & G. 2 , the latter hereto- 

 fore unknown east of the lower Penobscot. In the drier Polyfriclnnn- 

 covered border of this bog Carex albolutcsccns, var. cumtdata and C . 

 bullata, var. Oreenei were abundant and, in many areas, Corona 

 Conradii. 



1 See Fernald, Khodora, xv. 72 (1913). 



2 See Khodora, xix. 154 (1917). 



