1922] Fernald, — Notes on the Flora of Western Nova Scotia 157 



CONTRIBUTIONS FROM THE GRAY HERBARIUM OF HARVARD 

 UNIVERSITY, NEW SERIES, NO. LXVII. 



NOTES ON THE FLORA OF WESTERN NOVA SCOTIA 



1921. 



M. L. Fernald. 

 The results 1 of our exploration of Nova Scotia in 1920 were so 

 gratifying that it seemed wise to continue the work, with Yarmouth 

 as a center, during another season. Accordingly, Mr. Bayard Long 

 and I devoted two months in 1921 to further investigation of the flora 

 of western Nova Scotia. We were accompanied for all too short 

 periods in July by Messrs. Edwin B. Bartram and Norman C. Fassett, 

 and for a few days in September we had the active cooperation of 

 Professor Horace G. Perry of Acadia University. The summer of 

 1920 had been abnormally wet, with the result that savannahs and 

 lake-margins were often inaccessible or the characteristic plants of 

 these habitats drowned or very tardy in development. In marked 

 contrast, the summer of 1921 was phenomenally dry, in northwestern 

 Nova Scotia to the point of extreme drouth; and the shores of un- 

 dammed lakes were generally exposed, while small ponds had in 

 some instances completely evaporated. We were consequently able 

 to explore many places which were inaccessible in 1920, with the 

 result that the ranges of a large proportion of the coastal plain types 

 were extended and a good number of additions to our previous list 

 of Nova Scotian plants discovered. Several regions, for example 

 southwestern Lunenburg County, in the neighborhood of Bridgewater 

 furnished days of thrilling botanizing and important discoveries, but 

 they were all in general character so similar to our already described 

 experiences of 1920, that they need not be related in detail. The 

 itinerary of the summer, briefly stated, was as follows, the collecting 

 being done by Mr. Long and myself unless otherwise stated. 



July 13: Markland (Cape Forchu), Yarmouth Co., Fernald, Bartram, Long 



& Fassett. 

 July 14: Atwood Brook, Shelburne Co., Bartram & Long. 



Upper Wood's Harbor, Shelburne Co., Fernald & Fassett. 

 July 16: Brazil Lake, Yarmouth Co., Bartram & Long. 



Lake George, Yarmouth Co., Fernald & Fassett. 

 July 18: Annapolis Royal and Granville, Annapolis Co., Fernald, Bartram, 



Long & Fassett. 



1 Rhodora, xxlii. 89-111 (l92l), 130-152 (l92l), 153-171 (1921), 184-195 (l92l), 

 223-245 (1922), 257-278 (1922), 284-300 (1922). 



