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Bay of Fundy washing its outer shores would think us crazy to go 

 there for coastal plain plants. But we could not overlook the occur- 

 rence of Lophiola there. So, as the psychological moment had come, 

 the weather clearing, with wind in the west, we went on the 21st 

 by train tc Weymouth, thence to cross by boat in the late afternoon 

 (when the tide would be right for going down Sissiboo River) to Sandy 

 Cove on the Neck. 



Before t me for the boat we collected extensively about Weymouth, 

 sending our plants back to Yarmouth by Bissell who had elected to 

 return and to care for the accumulated material during our absence, 

 and before supper the rest of our party landed at Sandy Cove, a 

 beautiful harbor shut in by basalt cliffs. As we landed we wondered 

 where in such a place to look for plants of the sandy coastal plain, 

 but upon leaving the wharf we saw by the damp roadside carpets of 

 the Nova Seotian purple gerardia, A galinis neoscotica, northern repre- 

 sentative of a coastal plain genus. 



East of Sandy Cove lies a large lake, Lake Midway or Centerville 

 Lake, and south of that a small pond in the woods, and to the west, 

 at the head of Little River, the map indicated a chain of small lakes. 

 So, on the morning of August 22, the Graves's and Linder weredriven 

 east to Lake Midway and Long and I went west. Our driver, Mr. II. 

 W. Sypher, who knows the Neck intimately, told us that the lake east 

 of Tiddville had been drained in order to quarry the infusorial earth 

 which had formed its bed, and, when we first caught sight of one 

 of the small remaining pools beyond some hills, we hurried across to 

 prospect, and there was Lophiola, tall and just coming into bloom, 

 acres and acres as far as the eye could see. There was obviously 

 no need to go as far as Last Ferry, so we drove only to Tiddville and 

 spent the day following the savannah eastward along the Little 

 River, a stream which might often be crossed "in two jumps." Our 

 list for the day is a long one so it must be here cut down to the special- 

 ties, most of the distinctive coastal plain plants of the Yarmouth 

 County begs: Schizaca, Xyris caroliniana and X. montana, Calama- 

 grostis Pickeringii, Carex exilis, Lycopodium inundatum, var. Bigcl- 

 ovii and Ilex glabra; in the pools and small pond-holes Utricularia 

 purpurea and 17. geminiscapa, Nymphaca odorata, var. rosea, 1 and 



1 Tho flowers of Nymphara odorata, var. rosea are by no moans always pink, in 

 fact they oft oner have white inner petals. The plant is more familiarly known as 



