1921] Weatherby, — Old Time Connecticut Botanists 171 



These conclusions are based upon careful records, entered every 

 night for more than two months by all members of the party, of 

 everything seen during the day. They show very emphatically 

 that, w icreas the distinctive flora of the highly acid but cool Atlantic 

 slope of Nova Scotia has been derived very largely from the now sub- 

 merged continental shelf and has its affinities far to the south, the 

 distinctive flora of the warmer, inland and less acid or even calcareous 

 regions of the province, the regions of farms and apple and peach 

 orchards, has come from the north, northwest or west by way of New 

 Brunswick. This situation suggests the contrasts in the flora of 

 Newfoundland elsewhere discussed, 1 where the cold, foggy and 

 bleak acid southeastern region is distinguished by a flora derived 

 from tie acid sands and peats of the southern coastal plain; the 

 warmer, sunny, calcareous western region by a calcicolous flora 

 allied to those of the calcareous Arctic Archipelago and the Canadian 

 Rocky Mountains. 



(To be continued) 



OLD-TIME CONNECTICUT BOTANISTS AND THEIR 

 HERBARIA— II. 



C. A. Weatherby. 



{Continued from p. 125) 



Barratt's botanical activities began in England and extended, 

 apparently, to about 1845. There is a specimen in his herbarium 

 dated 1867, but most of his collecting was done before the former 

 date. As a botanist, his impulse was toward research and original 

 work. He was interested in the life history and morphology of 

 plants. On a sheet preserved with one of his letters to Torrey are 

 acute observations on such subjects as the bulblets of Nymphoides 

 and their function and the germination of the seeds of Orontium. 

 Groups which were taxonomically difficult or insufficiently studied 

 attracted him. Of them he collected freely, to show their different 

 forms, both for himself and abundant duplicates for his correspond- 

 ents. "I constantly take in my carriage" he wrote to Torrey, "one 

 or 2 lar{>e portfolios and collect through the season a great number of 

 our finest and rarest plants." One hopes that no patient's colic had 



1 FernaH, Am. Journ. Bot. v. 237-247 (1918). 



