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VOLUME XXXVI NUMBER 3 
DOLANICAL ~ CyagiT re 
SEPTEMBER, F007 
THE VEGETATION OF THE BAY OF FUNDY SALT 
AND DIKED MARSHES: AN ECOLOGICAL STUDY. 
CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE ECOLOGICAL PLANT-GEOGRAPHY 
OF THE PROVINCE OF NEW BRUNSWICK, NO. 3." 
W. F. GANONG. 
(WITH SIXTEEN FIGURES AND MAPS) 
At the head of the Bay of Fundy, in the Provinces of New 
Brunswick and Nova Scotia, occur extensive and diversified salt 
marshes. In places they merge into fresh-water bogs; elsewhere, 
and for most of their area, they are reclaimed from the sea and 
in a high state of cultivation, or are in process of reclamation; 
and some parts remain still in their natural state. Correspond- 
ing with these marked differences of conditions are striking dif- 
ferences in the vegetation; and the constant operations of diking, 
flooding, etc., allow all gradations of conditions, and hence of 
vegetation, to be seen. There is here offered, therefore, an 
unusually favorable opportunity to investigate some phases of 
the dynamical relations of plants to their environment, particu- 
larly the effects of soil and water upon their forms and sizes, 
upon the determination of the kinds that occur in such places, 
and upon the succession of one kind by another. In the pres- 
ent paper are contained the results of the observations I have 
. I. Upon raised Peers in the Province of New Brunswick. Trans. 
Roy. Soc. Canada IT. 3*: 131-163. 
No. 2. A preliminary ek of the grouping of the vegetation (phyto- 
geography) of the Province of New Brunswick. Bull. Nat. Hist. Soc: New Bruns. 
5:47-60. 1903. 
The present paper was presented in abstract before the Society for Plant Mor- 
phology and Physiology at the Yale meeting, December 28, 1899. 
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