1922] Fernald,— Notes on the Flora of Nova Scotia 171 



27, 1894, Bisscll, no. 538; Mount Carmel, 1857, D. C. Eaton. New 

 York: sandy woodlands, Whitestown, Oneida Co., September 

 2, 19(M, Haberer, no. 808; border of sphagnum bog, southeast of 

 Oriskany, July 2, 1904, Haberer, no. 809; moist rocky bank, Lower 

 Enfield Ravine, Ithaca, September 5, 1915, A. J. Eames, no. 3922. 

 West Virginia: along East Fork of Greenbrier River, Pocohontas 

 Co., September 19, 1904, A. II . Moore, no. 2364. Tennessee: 

 lower slopes of the mountains, Doe River Valley, September, 1884. 

 John Ball; near foot of Thunderhead Mt., July 25, 189G, Ruth, no. 

 474. Indiana: tamarack and huckleberry marsh 6 miles north of 

 Plymouth, August 31, 1914, C. C. Beam, no. 15,105; low border of 

 Graveyard Lake, Steuben Co., June 11, 1911, Deam, nos. 8648, 8651 

 8653; wet woods about 12 miles east of Michigan City, June 17, 1911, 

 Deam, no. 8760. Wisconsin: Kilbourn, 1861, T. J. Hale; swamp, 

 Preble, Brown Co., August 26, 1892, J. H. Schuette. Illinois: 

 Dixon, Geo. Vasey. 



**Betula caerulea-grandis Blanchard, Betula, i. no. 1 (May 7, 

 1904). B. cacrulca, var. grandis Blanchard in Vermont Phoenix 

 for May 13, 1904 and Betula, i. no. 2 (May 13, 1904). B. caerulea, 

 var. Blanehardi Sargent, Man. Trees N. A. 202, fig. 168 A (1905).— 

 A characteristic tree in portions of Nova Scotia; probably of wide 

 distribution. Halifax Co.: wooded roadside, Armdale (Dutch 

 Milage). Lunenburg Co.: roadside thickets and banks of Lahave 

 River, Bridgewater. 



B. caerulea-grandis is an abundant and characteristic tree in some 

 parts of Prince Edward Island, especially in the forests of Queens 

 County where, in the outskirts of Charlottetown and in the dry woods 

 along Brackley Point Road, it forms very extensive groves with the 

 stature and bark of B. papyrifera but at once recognized by the high- 

 ly lustrous blue-green upper surfaces of the leaves. Upon examina- 

 tion these are found to be quite glabrous as are the young branchlets. 

 The fruiting aments strongly resemble those of B. papyrifera. B. 

 caerulea-grandis, besides occurring as a characteristic tree on Prince 

 Edward Island and in Nova Scotia, is found thence to the Gaspe 

 Peninsula and the region of Quebec, and south to eastern and 

 central Maine, northern New Hampshire and the Green Mountains 

 of Vermont. It is the tree of eastern America, incorrectly called by 

 me 1 in earlier publications B. pendula Roth and B. pendula var. 

 japonica Rehder. Besides Blanchard 's Vermont material and the 

 Nova Scotia collections above cited the following are characteristic. 



Quebec: vicinity of Montmorenci Falls, July 7, 1905, J. Macoun, 

 no. 68,774. Prince Edward Island: dry woods, Brackley Point 



1 Fernald, Am. Journ. Sci. ser. 4, xiv. 184, 191 (1902): Robinson & Fernald in Gray. 

 Man. ed. 7: 335 (1908). 



