Proposed Cooperative Botanical Exploration of Nova Scotia. 
1920. 
Por several years, as you know, I have been working on the 
geographic relations of the flora of Newfoundland and the region 
about the Gulf of St. Lawrence. i'his work has brought out em¬ 
phatically the tremendous influence of the now submerged con¬ 
tinental shelf as a highway to Newfoundland, Sable Island, the 
Magdalen Islands etc. for plants of our southern Coastal Plain. 
Southeastern Newfoundland, Cape Breton and the Magdalen Islands 
also have in their known flora approximately forty (40) con¬ 
spicuous cases of identity with the flora of southwestern Europe 
and the Atlantic Islands (western Prance, Portugal, the Canary 
Islands, the Azores, etc.), species not known elsewhere on the 
western side of the Atlantic. 
It had been hoped that the coming summer could be devoted to 
intensive studies in unexplored sections of Newfoundland and 
some who will receive this communication have already been asked 
to cooperate in the Newfoundland work. It now appears, however, 
that the tremendous advance in mileage-charge on the Reid Newfound¬ 
land Railroad and the Reid coastwise steamers makes this an un¬ 
fortunate time to attempt Newfoundland exploration. The fare from 
Boston to St. John's has trebled since the beginning of the war 
and local rates have gone up in proportion, consequently it is now 
proposed to devote the summer of 1920 to an intensive study of the 
vascular flora of Nova Scotia, a Province in which exceedingly 
little critical floristic work has been done. Prom the somewhat 
desultory collections already made in Nova Scotia we know the 
Coastal Plain element to be represented there by several species 
which obviously reached Nova Scotia by a route far outside Long 
Island and Cape Cod, since the species are confined to more southern 
