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obviously of no interest, being bushed close down to the water and 

 with absolutely no beach exposed, but, tiring of waiting for the others 

 to return, I pushed idly through the hushes to the water's edge and 

 there, with flowers fully expanded under several inches of water, was 

 the beautiful Plymouth Gentian, Sabatia Kennedyana, the Rhode 

 Island and southeastern Massachusetts representative of S. decandra 

 of southern Georgia and Florida (fig. 12). Mrs. Graves's observation 

 was splendidly corroborated, and we could not pass such a spot even 

 if Carleton and' Kemptville again had to wait. With the Sabatia, 

 deep under water, were the coastal plain Coreopsis rosea, its previous 

 northeastern outposts in eastern Massachusetts; typical Habenaria 

 flava, the Asclepias incarnata of Grand Lake and Rynchospora capi- 

 teUata, var. discutiens again; and, best of all, a very evident relative 

 of the southern Panicum longifolium, the latter species (fig. Hi) 

 known as far north as New England only in southern Connecticut 

 and adjacent Rhode Island. Our consciences were becoming troubled 

 by the full boxes (we had merely gone for a ride) of specimens to be 

 cared for and thoughts of that early train next morning so, just as 

 on the previous trip up this valley, we drove on only to Pleasant 

 Valley, where we took a crossroad to Yarmouth. Hut, as we were 

 turning, Bissell spied in the sand near Sloane Lake, a goldenrod of 

 the EtdhamUx section, which we had not had, the typical thin-leaved, 

 coastal plain Solidago tenuifolia, previously unknown east of York 

 County, Maine, though abundantly represented in Nova Scotia by 

 the endemic variety of pond-margins (p. 143). 



In September, 1017, Mr. Chesley Allen collected, 1 on a savannah 

 between Little River and East Ferry on Digby Neck, a single plant 

 of Lophiola, a most characteristic plant previously unreported from 

 north of the New Jersey pine barrens, and all summer we had been 

 awaiting the right opportunity and settled weather in order to go 

 for a few days to Digby Neck, not only to rediscover Lophiola if 

 possible but because we took that plant to be an index to a probably 

 interesting lot of isolated coastal plain species. Anyone who knows 

 the montane character of Digby Neck, forming a slender continua- 

 tion, in places less than a mile wide, of the North Mountain for 

 about 40 miles between the Hay of Fundy and St. Mary's Bay,— 

 anyone who knows this slender montane peninsula with the bleak 



1 Hoe Nichols, Rhouorv, xxi. 08 (1919), 



