554 FLORA OF McNAB's ISLAND, HALIFAX, N. S.- — BARHOUK. 



and in fair numbers also. ]Srever do I remember seeing so many 

 woodland plants on one shore before, especially on the side of 

 an island or district exposed to a good deal of the force, tides 

 and winds of the Atlantic ocean, as is the case on the south side 

 of the island looking out towards Devil's Island. Here at high 

 tide one may cull raspberries with the water coming over one's 

 boots, pick Scutellana on the same spot, watch the milfoils grow- 

 ing in grand profusion and to a great height — as much as 3 

 to 4 feet or more. Then we have rock roses, not really littoral 

 plants, everywhere, and at the proper season the margins are 

 decked with masses of purple irises, so that one feels inclined to 

 , call the island " a garden of irises," for it is not only on the 

 shore the}' are to be seen, but all over it. Grasses and sedges 

 dip in the water and seem to enjoy the tide rippling over them. 

 Other plants we find are rose-root, sea i^ea, sea rocket, sedum, 

 asters, scarlet pimpernel, and the white nightshade, the evening 

 primrose, and many more too numerous to mention. Another 

 peculiarity which 1 noticed was the comparative poverty of the 

 Fucacece on the shores, that is of species which find their 

 habitat there. On the shore opposite Lawlor's Island, one meets 

 with a couple or so of varieties of the Melanophycece. On the 

 side towards the ocean opposite Devil's Island, it is about the 

 same, a stray Fucks vesicuJosus or F. serratus and Laminarla ; 

 while on the shores looking towards Halifax, practically none 

 are to be seen. Along Meagher's Beach we do find various 

 kinds of Fucus, Floridece, etc., but nearly all these are washed 

 up by the tides ; few are settlers. Most shores exposed to the 

 ocean are covered more or less with a sea-fiora of a beautiful and 

 varied character. The above fiora generally appears to be that 

 of brackish water rather than of the true sea type, or tnie fresh 

 water one. 



So far as the laud fiora generally is concerned, if I went 

 into it in detail, it would occupy a paper by itself, therefore my 

 remarks will of necessitv Ije brief and ijeneral. Ferns are 



