110 FLORA OF NOVA SCOTIA — LAWSON. 



At Liicyfiekl, the form N. Hectori, Hort. Edin., i-aised from 

 seeds collected by Sir James Hector, during the Pallisher expe- 

 dition, is very hardy, and never suffers from severe winters, as 

 the ordinary form of the tree does. 



Staphylea pinnata, Linn., which grows in shrubberies in 

 England, is recorded by Dr. How as found at Windsor, cultivated. 



ANACARDIACE^. 



Rhus typhixa, Linn. Quite common along the banks of 

 Bedford Basin, by the road from Halifax to Bedford, indi- 

 genous. Not recorded from any inland localities. 



Cultivated at Windsor, Dr. How. Pictou, A. H. Mackay. 



Rhus Toxicodendron, Linn. Poison Ivy. Plentiful in stony 

 land, a few miles above Dartmouth town, belonging to the 

 Admiralty, on the Dartmouth side of Bedford Basin : also near 

 the shore to the westward of Bedford village, at the head of the 

 Basin. In wild rocky lands, between Windsor Junction and 

 Salmon Hole, Windsor Road, Halifax County. North- West Arm, 

 Halifax. Close by the salt spring, Whycocomagh, Cape Breton, 

 1864. Abundant among stones, at the base of the cliff at Look 

 Out, on the North Mountain, Kino-'s Countv, below the stations 

 for Woodsia Ilvensis and Asj^leniuni Trichomanes. 



Cumberland, A. H. Mackay. 



Stations should be carefully recorded, as some persons suffer 

 severely from handling the plant, in ignorance of the injurious 

 effects of its exhalations, or of the more sensitive parts of the 

 skin cominof in contact with it. 



