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from which I started, met with the first signs of the result of the 
described ice storm, many trees being denuded of their tops and 
branches, and numerous small trees being still in a bent position; 
but as higher ground was reached the trees were not broken or 
torn, showing that snow, and not rain, had fallen upon them, nor 
was there anything in the trees on the cross road between the 
upper part of the East River and the west branch of the St. 
Mary’s, nor upon the head waters of the Liscomb River, which 
showed that the ice storm had there prevailed. My driver from 
Caledonia Settlement to St. Mary’s informed me that he had been 
in the woods on the Lower Liscomb during this storm, lumber- 
ing, and he, as well as other men, were afraid to leave their camp 
in consequence of falling limbs rendering it dangerous to do so. 
Returning up the east branch of the St. Mary’s river the effects 
of the storm were strongly visible, a great number of trees having 
suffered from the weight of their unusual burden, large limbs of 
birches and other trees, some fully six inches in diameter, being 
broken off close to the stems. In this district small trees were 
bent to the earth by the weight of the ice, and the roads were 
for a day or two, or until the trees were cut off, impassable. On 
this branch of the St. Mary’s after the storm, the scene when the 
sun shone on the ice-laden trees must have been exceedingly 
beautiful, particularly on the borders of the long lake through 
which St. Mary’s River flows. 
R. Morrow. 
ArT. x.—Licuens or Nova Scorra. By A. W. Mackay, B.A. 
B.Sc., PRINCIPAL OF Pictou ACADEMY. 
(Read May 9, 1881.) 
LICHENOLOGY is the botanical field of romance, in it tales are 
told of beautiful blue and green algals under the tyrannous 
grasp and mastery of fungi which live upon them and cannot 
live without them. From the researches of DeBary, Famintzin, 
Baranetzky, Schmendener especially, Barnet and Reese, a lichen 
