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JOURNAL OF 



THE NEW ENGLAND BOTANICAL CLUB 



Vol. 23. July, 1921. No. 271. 



THE GRAY HERBARIUM EXPEDITION TO NOVA SCOTIA 



1920. 

 M. L. Fernald. 



(Continued from p. 152.) 

 Luckily Bissell's boat got in promptly, although so baffled by the 

 dense fog (now rapidly approaching the 400-hour mark) that she 

 had difficulty in making the landing. Bissell had barely time to 

 change hi^ clothes before it was time to start for Lower Argyle, for 

 I was anxious to get back to the quagmire White and I had been 

 forced to leave only partly explored, and the others were ready to 

 visit this particularly accessible station for Schizaea. The quagmire 

 kept us busy most of the forenoon, chiefly with the collection and 

 study of the amazingly abundant and perplexing representatives of 

 the coasta plain genus Bartonia. The genus was now at the height 

 of flowering and for the next two weeks we diligently and unintelli- 

 gently collected these plants wherever we went. As currently 

 recognized, Bartonia consists of four species: the strictly southern 

 B. verna, apparently unique and ranging from Louisiana to southern 

 Virginia; B. virgin ica, which seems to be a well-behaved and constant 

 plant, ranging northeastward to the drier barrens of Nova Scotia; 

 B. jmnicuJuta, extending from Louisiana and Elorida to York County, 

 Maine; and the endemic Newfoundland B. iodandra. Our constant 

 embarrassment was regarding the two latter. The typical southern 

 B. pa7iiculata is a yellow r ish-green plant with the flowers in com- 

 pound, th-ysoid inflorescences; with firm and subulate, yellowish 

 leaves and calyx-lobes, the calyx cleft to the base; the corolla-lobes 

 translucen: to creamy-white and the anthers yellow. In the New- 



