1921] Fernald, — Expedition to Nova Scotia 1(53 



blunt at both ends, the Nova Scotia plant, as shown by fruiting 

 material collected in October by Mr. Sypher, having the red capsules 

 free two-thirds their length and bearing seeds which are commonly 

 tailed at one end. The two southern plants flower in early summer, 

 the Nova Scotian from mid-August to October. The great difficulty 

 arises in interpreting the original description and plate, for the 

 plate, in such characters as are shown, very closely matches Nova 

 Scotian material but is not a good match for most specimens of 

 either the New Jersey or the more southern species. 



I have been generously loaned or have had access to all the material 

 of Lophiola in the herbaria of the New York Botanical Garden, the 

 Philadelphia Academy of Science, the National Museum and the 

 Missouri Botanical Garden and in all the collections find but two 

 sheets, both collected somewhere in Florida by Rugel, which com- 

 pete with the plant of Digby Neck in resembling the original plate 

 of L. aurea. These two sheets are of unusually large-flowered ma- 

 terial of the southern species, and, when we bear in mind what we 

 know of Lyon's movements between 1806 and 1812 and that the 

 plate was made from cultivated material, it seems wiser to apply the 

 name L. aurea to the southern plant than to force it upon the superfi- 

 cially somewhat similar plant of Nova Scotia. The Nova Scotia 

 plant should, therefore, be treated as a new species, the New Jersey 

 plant being L. americana (Pursh) Wood. 



Graves aid Linder found Midway Lake with a bouldery and 

 uninteresting shore, though at one point they were able to get Myrio- 

 phi/llum tenellum and a beautiful lot of freshly flowering Utricularia 

 resupinata (from Florida north), making our ninth species of the 

 genus. They also got Potamogeton Oakesianus and P. bupleuroidcs, 

 the latter species new to our collections, and on the Fundy shore, 

 Graves got Sedum roseum and Polygonum allocarpum, both typical 

 plants of this coast. 



Before leaving Sandy Cove for Digby on the 23rd, Long and I 

 stole out in the early morning to the little pond which lies almost 

 in the village. We were told: "It never had a name, but some 

 folks call it Lily Lake;" — so we will call it Lily Lake. In a deep 

 muddy cove were two splendid plants, the northern MyriophyUum 

 Farwellii (alpine ponds of Gaspe to northern New England, northern 

 New York and northern Michigan) and, mingled with it, that hand- 



