14 SCIENTIFIC SURVEY OF TURNER'S LAKE 
end. The variety variegata is more commonly found in the north- 
east than the typical N. advena. 
Castalia odorata (Ait.) Woodville and Wood. Sweet-scented 
water lily. Small groups among larger masses of the yellow cow 
lily. This is the common white water lily of the east. A form having 
pinkish flowers is said to have been introduced a few years ago but 
we could find no evidence of its development. Newfoundland to 
Manitoba, south to Florida, Louisiana and Kansas. 
Spiraea latifolia Borkh. Meadowsweet. Growing at the edge of 
the water. Newfoundland to Saskatchewan, Virginia and Pennsyl- 
vania. 
Hypericum virginicum L. March St. John’s-wort. Common in 
swamps from Newfoundland to Florida, west of Manitoba, Ne- 
braska and Louisiana. 
Lysimachia terrestris (L.) B.S. P. Loosestrife. The loosestrife 
grows in low grounds from Newfoundland and Hudson Bay, south 
to Georgia and Arkansas. 
Nymphodes lacunosum (Vent.) Fernald. Floating-heart. The 
floating heart grows at both ends of the lake in moderately deep 
water. The floating leaves with clusters of spurlike tubers at their 
bases drag at the ends of a slender stem often several feet in length. 
It is found from Nova Scotia to Florida and locally westward. 
Lobelia Dortmanna L. Water Lobelia. In shallow water at south 
end of lake. Newfoundland to New Jersey and Pennsylvania and 
northwestward. 
Solidago gramimifolia (L.) Salisb. var Nuttall (Greene) Fernald. 
Grows with its roots in the shallow water at south end of the lake and 
along the east shore. Distributed from New Brunswick to Saskatche- 
wan, Alberta, Florida, Nebraska and Wyoming. 
Aster longifolius Lam. Aster. This species and the next follow- 
ing, grow from the rotting driftwood at the outlet and in the shallows 
along shore. Found from Labrador and Saskatchewan, northern 
New England, Ontario to Montana, 
Aster novi-belqu LL. Aster. Newfoundland to Maine and 
Georgia, mainly near the coast. 
ALGAE 
(Identified by Dr. MarsHatt A. Howe, New York Botanical Garden) 
Phormdium Rete (Ag.) Gomont. In Turner’s Lake found 
growing with patches of Bryum bimum Schreb. 
Stigonema ocellatum (Dillw.) Thuret. Free floating or attached 
to submerged twigs and stones. 
