1900 | FLORA OF THE WHITE LAKE REGICN 425 
once. The fringed polygala was also frequent, generally in com- 
pany with the trailing arbutus, which was very abundant, and 
together they must have made a fine floral display in early May. 
The polygala occurred under quite different conditions south of the 
lake, for besides on dunes and the drier sand plain it found a 
home in the damp sand as a companion of such plants as 
Clintonia borealis and Trientalis Americana. Vaccinium Canadense 
also accompanied the other huckleberries in moister areas south 
of the lake. In the dry plains both north and south were great 
quantities of Comptonia asplenifolia, sometimes quite exclusive of 
smaller growth. Preris aguilina was equally abundant in spots 
but not covering such wide spaces as the Comptonia. It was the 
only fern observed in the dry sand plain. Ahus copallina was the 
most common sumach, often much dwarfed and flowering when 
a foot or less in height. R. aromatica and Shepherdia Canadensis 
were frequent along the bluff shores of the lake and occasionally 
were seen elsewhere in the woods. The most frequent papilion- 
aceous plants of the season were Léspedeza polystachya and L. 
Stuvei var. intermedia, Desmodium paniculatum and D. nudiflorum, 
the latter often under the pines with the pyrolas. The sunflower 
was chiefly represented by Helianthus divaricatus, slender, often 
dwarfed, and bearing small heads barely an inch in diameter. 
Liatris scariosa was the common blazing-star. The principal 
goldenrods were Solidago hispida, S. juncea, and S. nemoralis ; and 
the asters mostly Aster corymbosus, A. asureus, and small forms 
of A. laevis. The round-leaved orchid, Habenaria Hookeriana, 
occasionally occurred, and more commonly Lycopodium com- 
planatum. 
These were the most typical 
plain north of White lake, a list by no means exhaustive ¢ 
for the time of the year, but representative of the flora. Nearly 
all of them were met with on the south side, commonly on the 
dry sand ridges, and helped to give the flora south of the lake a 
More mixed and diversified character. 
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plants seen in the wooded sand 
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