502 EARLY INTERVALE FLORA 



EARLY INTERVALE FLORA OF EASTERN NOVA SCOTIA. BY 

 C. B. ROBINSON, B. A., Pictcu Academy. 



[Report on Phonological Schedules of Northern Nova Scotian Public Schools, 1901 ] 



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 C u,cu,llaria (L.), Millsp., and Erythronium 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 Erythronium, 

 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 Erythronium, 

 though none have noted either of the others. It should be 

 stated that while Erythronium 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 threi out of 

 seven Highland Stations report Erythronium. In Northern 

 Colchester (Stirling) only one Coast and no Lowland Stations 



