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5OZ EARLY INTERVALE FLORA 
EARLY INTERVALE FLoRA OF EASTERN Nova Scotia.—By 
C. B. Ropinsoy, B. A., Pictew Academy. 
[Report on Phenological Schedules of Northern Nova Scotian Public Schools, 1901 J 
Information regarding the distribution of several of our most 
interesting specimens of flowering plants has been so greatly 
extended of late, especially through the increased attention 
given to this subject in the public schools, that some generaliza- 
tions are becoming possible, and it will be the aim of this paper 
to attempt a modest beginning along these lines in the case of 
one society of plants, that composed of the earlier blooming 
species of the intervale flora of Eastern Nova Scotia. 
Even in Macoun’s Catalogue only two references each for 
the entire Province, are given to Sanguinaria Canadensis L., 
Bicuculla Cucullarva (L.), Millsp., and HLrythronium Ameri- 
canum, Ker. Now, all three of these species grow abundantly, 
either upon the intervales themselves or still more commonly on 
shaded banks bordering them, in the case of each of the three 
rivers flowing into Pictou harbor, beginning just beyond the 
farthest point reached by the tide and continuing towards their 
head-waters as far as any observations have been made. 
Nor are these exceptional cases. While no school in the 
Coast belt of Cumberland reported in 1901 any of these three, 
seven, possibly eight, in the Lowland belt record Hrythronium, 
and four of these in additional observations include at least one 
of the others. 
Of the eleven Cumberland Highland Stations sending in 
schedules no less than six have credible dates for Hrythroniwm, 
though none have noted either of the others. It should be 
stated that while Hrythronium is among the plants listed for 
observation, the others are not, so that, in view of the facts 
elsewhere, such negative evidence is of little, perhaps of no 
value. 
In West Colchester four out of six Coast and thre: out of 
seven Highland Stations report Hrythroniwm. In Northern 
Colchester (Stirling) only one Coast and no Lowland Stations 
