Vegetation of Northern Cape Breton. 



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Taxus canadensis 

 Calamagrostis canadensis 

 Cinna lati folia 

 Glyceria canadensis 

 Scirpus caespitosus 

 Scirpns hndsonianns 

 Eriophoru m virginicum 

 Rynchospora alba 

 Carex crinita 

 Carex flava 

 Carex stellulata 

 Juncus hrevicaudatus 

 Smilacina trifolia 

 Iris versicolor 

 Habenaria clavellata 

 Hahenaria dilatata 

 Spiranthes Romanzoffiana 

 Myrica Gale 

 Alnus incana 



Thalictrum dioicum 

 Drosera rotundifolia 

 Spiraea latifolia 

 Amelanchier sp. 

 Sanguisorha canadensis 

 Rosa nitida 

 Viola hlanda 

 Viola cucidlata 

 Chamaedaphne calyculata 

 Lonicera caerulea 

 Viburnum cassinoides 

 Eupatorium purpureum 

 Solidago rngosa 

 Aster acuminatus 

 Aster nemoralis 

 Aster puniceiis 

 Aster radtila 

 Aster iimbellatus 

 Cirsinm muticum 



Aside from relatively steep, springy slopes, swamps of the 

 well-drained type are commonly developed along streams, in 

 places w'here the ground is subject to occasional inundation (see 

 further under head: formation-types along streams, p. 456). 

 The vegetation in swamps of the well-drained type is apt to 

 include more or less admixture of bog species, as shown by 

 the above list, but these occupy a subordinate position and 

 sometimes even the omnipresent ericad, Chamaedaphne, is 

 absent. The only occurrence of Typha latifolia noted on the 

 plateau was in a swamp of this description. Well-drained 

 swamps are far less frequent in the barrens than in the forested 

 region, but even here they are by no means absent, particularly 

 along the larger streams. 



b. THE ASSOCIATION-COMPLEXES OF POORLY DRAINED SWAMPS 



Under this head, here as in the lowland, may be included a 

 large number of swampy areas which, in the character and 

 ecological relations of their vegetation, appear to be intermediate 

 between the well-drained and the undrained types. There is one 

 group of swamps in particular which seems to fit in under this 



