NOTES ON THE ACADIAN FLOxRA. 



By Mrs. Cora E. Pease. 



WHILE on a recent trip to Evangeline Land, Nova Scotia. 

 I noted a very interesting flora having many species 

 of a more northern range than the famiHar plants of eastern 

 Massachusetts ; yet I came upon many things that I should ex- 

 pect to find farther south. For instance, the dainty creeping 

 snow-berry, or tea-berry, as my friends in Nova Scotia called 

 it, the rarely beautiful O.valis acetoscUa. and the lovely twin- 

 flower, grows in bogs not far removed from dry sandy plains 

 carpeted with the golden flowered heath-like Hudsonia 

 ericoides. The white and the purple fringed orchis, also the 

 Hahenaria tridcntata are very abundant, and less common is 

 the handsome yellow fringed orchis. Robinia viscosa flourishes 

 as an ornamental tree, and, in many instances, like the common 

 locust, had escaped from cultivation. 



As in the forests of Maine, the woods in the valley of the 

 Cornwallis River have an abundant undergrowth of the 

 striped maple, or moosewood, and the Vihurnum lantanoides , 

 in some localities also called moosewood on account of the 

 moose feeding upon the large leaves and tips of branches. 



I do not recall but a few plants I had never seen before. 

 Among them are the American yew. or ground hemlock, 

 sparsely ornamented with its glistening red berries ; the water- 

 starwort, CalUtriche verna, of fascinating interest as it floated 

 in the shallow water of the river in company with the long 

 streamers of the white water crowfoot ; and the least yellow- 

 pond lily, Nuphar puiiiiluni, growing above the mill-dam in the 

 back water of the same river. The flowers were scarcelv 

 larger than one's finger nail. This seemed to be the common 

 Nuphar of the region for I never once saw there our ever}-- 

 where present Advena. 



Many species of ferns grow most prolifically, and I noticed 

 as common, what I never see about our own woods and pas- 



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