68 NEW AND RARE PLANTS—LAWSON. 
Art. VIII Norice or New anp Rare PLants. By GEORGE 
Lawson, Pu. D., Lu. D. Professor of Chemistry and 
Mineralogy, Dalhousie College and University, Halifax. 
Nova Scotia. 
(Read 12th December, 1882.) 
Part I. Plants collected at Blomidon, Bay of Fundy, King’s 
County, Nova Scotia. 
A familiar feature in the physical geography of Nova Scotia 
is the North Mountain, a table-topped ridge that runs for 80 miles 
in a straight, unbroken line along the south-eastern shore of the 
Bay of Fundy, from Annapolis Basin on the south-west to Minas 
Basin on the north-east, and thus shelters the fruitful valleys of 
the Annapolis and Cornwallis Rivers. One of the most attractive 
features in the scenery of Nova Scotia is the bold and strikingly 
picturesque promontory of Blomidon, rising to 400 feet in height, 
which forms the north-eastern termination of the North Moun- 
tain, and now looks down upon the fertile stretches of 
waving meadow, blossoming orchards, and scattered towns and 
villages, as it did in the olden time on the less ambitious hamlets 
and carefully cultivated fields of the French farmers. The 
physical and geological features of Blomidon,—its red sandstone 
strata, mostly covered by a debris-slope, and its continuous 
summit cliff or wall of dark trap—have often been depicted by 
pen and pencil, and its zeolites and other treasures of mineral 
species are shown in most of the public museums of America and 
Europe. It is not so well known that Blomidon is a rich pasture 
for the botanist. 
In July last an excursion to Blomidon was undertaken, 
chiefly for the purpose of studying its ferns. The party consisted 
of Colonel CoLLINGWoop, R. A., and his son Percy ; Dr. CATELL, 
Deputy Surgeon General; Mr. P. JAck, Mr. Geo. THoMsoN, and 
myself. Having reached Canning the night before, we started early 
in the morning for Blomidon, sailing down with the tide ina yacht 
to a place called Big Eddy, which affords convenient anchorage. 
