286 Rhodora [December 



V. C0RYMB08UM, var. pallidum (Ait.) Gray. Digby Co.: wet 

 woods and thickets, Meteghan; swampy thickets and woods by 

 Little Doueette Lake, Hectanooga. Yarmouth Co.: boggy thick- 

 ets bordering Trefry's Lake, Arcadia. 



Primula farinosa L., var. macropoda Fernald. Axxapolis 

 Co.: crests of basalt dirt's by Bav of Fundv, near Margaretville. 

 See p 139. 



* Samolus floribundus HBK. Yarmouth Co.: rocky and 

 muddy tidal banks of Tusket River, extending up-stream to Tusket 

 Falls; brackish muddy and gravelly margin of Eel Lake. See pp. 

 105, 142. 



Lysimachia punctata L. Thoroughly naturalized by roadsides in 

 most parts of the province. See p. 95. 



Steironkma ciliatum (L.) Raf. Seen in the western counties 

 only at one station in Yarmouth Co.: alder thicket, Yarmouth. 



**Sabatia KSNNEDTANA Fernald, Rhodora, xviii. 150, t. 121 

 (1916). YARMOUTH Co.: apparently general in the Tusket Valley, 

 above the lower tidal reaches: peaty margin of Kegeshook Lake; 

 very abundant on boggy savannah bordering St. John L., Spring- 

 haven; sandy and gravelly margin of Pearl L., Kcmptville; wet 

 pockets in sandy and cobbly beach of Fanning L., Carleton; peaty 

 and gravelly border, northwest side of Tusket (Yaughan) L. (flow- 

 ering plants wholly submerged by high water); wet savannah bor- 

 dering Butler's (Gavelton) L., Gavelton. See pp. 158, 160, 165. 

 167. 



Macoun recorded S. chlowklcs Pursh (a southern relative of S 

 Kennedyana) as on Sable Island, but St. John states (Proc. Bost. 

 Soc. Nat. Hist, xxxvi. 89) that Macoun's material is Centaurium 

 umbellatum. 



Bartoma viroixica (L.) BSP. Common in western Nova Sco- 

 tia. Our collections are as follows. Yarmouth Co.: cobbly beaches 

 of Fast Branch of Tusket and of Butler's Lake, Gavelton; open spot 

 in rocky woods near Eel L.; sandy and peaty bog, Sand Pond, Ar- 

 gyle; dry rocky open thickets near Handel L., Argyle; dryish peaty 

 barrens, Lower Argyle. Shklburxk Co.: dry rocky or gravelly 

 barrens near Clement Pond, Barrington. Queens Co.: dry blue- 

 berry barrens near Louis L., Port Joli; openings in dryish thickets, 

 Port Mouton; boggy thickets and border of swale, Central Port 

 Mouton. Axxapolis Co.: damp Pdytrichum-coveTed sandy plains, 

 Middleton. Recorded by J. M. Macoun, Ottawa Nat xxiii. 192 

 (1910) from Lunenburg Co. See pp. 13S, 148, 154, 157. 159 



B. paxiculata (Michx.) Robinson. As already stated (pp. 149, 

 153, 156), B. pavicidata, as it occurs in Nova Scotia, is tremendously 

 variable and clearly passes into plants which closely approach the 

 Newfoundland B. iodandra. As a result of prolonged but not wholly 



