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assign a date to Erythronium, though one of the latter notes 

 Bicuculla, but in the Highlands this is changed, as four out of 

 five report at least two and one of them all three species. 



Only one Coast Section in Pictou County records any of these, 

 but it has two, Erythronium and Sang uinaria. An interesting 

 isolated fact may be related here. At Brown's Point, on the 

 I. C. R., just outside Pictou, Erythronium grows in the open, 

 and not one hundred yards from salt water. It is supposed to 

 have been accidentally introduced by students bringing speci- 

 mens from their homes on East or West River for class 

 examination at the Academy. 



Two Pictou Lowland Stations report Sanguinaria, one the 

 others also ; but nine out of fifteen Highland Sections have 

 Erythronium, and six of these at least one of the others. 



East of Pictou County it is very doubtful whether these 

 species are any longer co-existent. From Antigonish the only 

 reference to Erythronium is clearly an error for Clintonia t 

 while beyond the Strait there is not at present any sufficient 

 proof of its occurrence. 



One of the Highland Districts of Antigonish reports 

 Sanguinaria and Bicuculla Cucullaria, another Sanguinaria 

 and B. Canadensis (Goldie) Millsp. The latter is very likely to 

 have been the more common species, as this error is rather 

 frequent. But from Richmond and Cape Breton Counties there 

 is no mention of any of these, though four out of the five Inver- 

 ness stations on the Bras d'Or Slope report Bicuculla and one of 

 these Sanguinaria as well, and one of the two Victoria schools 

 to send in a schedule assigns a date to B. Canadensis. 



Finally on the Gulf Slope, the only Lowland and one of the 

 three Coast sections report Bicuculla, the former Sanguinaria 

 also. 



These facts seem to warrant the conclusion that, with the 

 exception noted, all three of these species are regularly found 

 upon most of the river intervales in this district, beyond the 

 reach of salt water. In most of the Coast and many of the Low- 

 land districts cultivation has so far proceeded that they must 



