Chapter 10 – 1949

January 29, 1949 (Mount Uniacke Bog)
Saturday. Cameron and Livingstone got me to go with them to show them the raised bog this side of Mount Uniacke [coordinates 44.842993, -63.793452]. We went in the Museum jeep and Shirley Mason came with us. Left my house about 2:30. It was a glorious day. We visited both bogs. While going through the raised bog, we gathered some peat for Anne Gorham and her Desmid cultures. While the boys were getting samples at the river meadow bog, Shirley walked up along the side of the river on the ice. While they were getting the samples from the raised bog, Shirley went over to the spruce trees beside the road and started a fire. First, she had to get some matches from Cameron. Cameron started to use my mattock for digging through the frozen surface layer, but he broke the handle. We took all the material back to the lab. We got back to about 5:30. It was a good day.

April 21, 1949 (Inglis St. extension, shore of Arm and railroad tracks)
Thursday. Anne G. and I went out in the morning to hunt for fruiting moss, etc. We found the moss beside the road shortly before reaching the bridge on the Inglis Street extension [coordinates 44.630533, -63.588287], then went over the bridge, parked the car and walked down to shore of the Arm. There was a lot more moss on the road to the shore. On the shore we located a rosette of leaves. It looks like a Sedum, but we must check this later. On the way back we walked along the railway embankment and located blueberry patches. Before going to the Forrest bldg., we called in at Oakland Rd. for coffee.

April 27, 1949 (Spryfield)
Tuesday. Anne G. and I went to the spot along the road between McIntosh Run and Kidston’s [coordinates 44.600877, -63.607866] to hunt for lichens. We left about 2:30 p.m. and were back by 4:20 p.m. As a collecting ground the spot is all shot to hell, but we did get some lichens. Anne and Cameron worked at them the next day (Wed).

April 30, 1949 (St. Andrews River)
Saturday. Anne Gorham, Shirley Mason, Gillian Mason, Don Livingstone, Jimmie and self, went off in my car to hunt for Hepatica. Jimmie drove. We left about 9 a.m.

At St. Andrews River [coordinates 45.080826, -63.3944], Shirley got Ella Thuret to come with us and show us where the Hepatica grew. She took us right to the spot and it was in excellent condition. It is Just about fifty yards below where Eville and I crossed the river.

We also collected staminate cones of Ostrya virginiana, flowers of Ulmus americana and flowering twigs of what we took to be Corylus cornuta. This will be checked later. Anne made a Botany 2 collection of fruiting Mnium sporophyte. We went home via the Musquodoboit River, having got gas at Stewiacke. On the marsh beside the Musquodoboit River we collected, very much the same things as were around the St. Andrews River. This was the same meadow Dave and I visited. On the Dartmouth ferry my car would not go and we were pushed off. Anne and I came back that evening.

May 20, 1949 (Kennetcook)
Friday. Shirley Mason, Anne Gorham, Jane Bailly, Tony Bidwell, Cameron and I went to the Kennetcook Valley [coordinates 45.177898, -63.721296] in my car. We left a little after 10 a.m. and Bidwell drove. We had our lunch at the Anthony Hotel at Kennetcook, then immediately afterwards collected on the flats south-west of the town. There were some very good collecting spots there and we got a number of good mounts. We stopped next to a grove of trees a few miles along the road but did not locate much. Many of the trees had been cut down. At Clarksville we drove into a property beside the station and collected along the river. This was the best spot we had seen. There were many varieties of flowers there and the place should be even better a little later. It should be visited at regular intervals. We had some drinks at Brooklyn and arrived back in Halifax about five-thirty. It was a cool dull day. Anne looked after the mounts. The next day they were all identified. Attached is the list.

Kennetcook collection:

• Lonicera canadensis
• Lonicera villosa var. calvescens
• Salix lucida
• Salix cordata
• Geum rivale
• Fragaria virginiana
• Uvularia sessilifolia
• Trillium cernuum
• [?] sativa
• Sedum triphyllum
• Myosotis arvensis
• Prunus pensylvanica
• Corylus cornuta
• Antennaria neodioica
• Crataegus

May 26, 1949 (Gorham Lake)
Thursday. Anne Gorham and I went out to Gorham Lake [coordinates unknown]. We left about 3 p.m. in my car, left the car at the church and walked in. At the bog near the lake, the Bake-apple (Rubus chamaemorus) was just at the height of its bloom. With some plants, the petals had fallen. Kalmia polifolia was in bloom but the specimens were not very good. In addition to the Bake-apple we made herbarium collections of Nemopanthus mucronata ^[1] which was just coming into bloom. We were back in the lab by about 5 p.m.

May 27, 1949 (Truro)
Friday. Anne Gorham, Muriel Smith, Shirley Mason, Dan Livingston and self-went to Truro in my car. We left my house about 8:30 a.m. Dan drove both going and coming. At Truro we left the car at the Agricultural College then walked along the flats. The collecting was good, and we were sufficiently early to get things I had missed other years. We had lunch at the end of the flats by the college property and then returned to the college along the top of the cliff. At the college Anne, Shirley, etc. put the collections in the press. The only staff member of the Agricultural college around was a chap named Holland. We got back to Halifax about 4 p.m. The day was cool but it did not rain and there were no flies.

May 28, 1949 (Salmon River, Truro)

• Taxus canadensis
• Arisaema stewardsonii
• Trillium cernuum
• Smilacina racemosa
• Actaea rubra
• Nepeta hederacea var. parviflora
• Capsella Bursa-pastoris
• Primula mistassinica
• Dryopteris disjuncta
• Veronica ?
• Salix ??

June 1, 1949 (Experimental Lakes. Andromeda at Holland Lake)
Wednesday. This trip was taken to get borings and mud from Ronald Hayes experimental lakes [coordinates unknown], so that Shirley Mason could finish her report. Anne Gorham, Cuthbertson, Cameron and I made up the party. We went in my car and took a rubber boat. Cuthbertson and Cameron did all the work. We went to Louise, Holland, Black, South Weaver and North Weaver. We left shortly after 9, had lunch before doing Black, got everything we went for plus some flowers. We forgot the fly dope, but the flies were not bad. Livingstone and Lewin met us in their jeep at North Weaver. We were back a little after 4pm.

June 8, 1949 (Eastern Passage Bog)

• Juncus balticus – flowering
• Eleocharis – flowering
• Carex nigra? – flowering
• Typha – last year’s seeds; wooly, new leaves
• Potentilla palustris – leaves
• Myrica gale – flowering
• Alisma – leaves & last year’s flower stalks
• Spiraea

June 8, 1949 (Barrie Beach, etc.)
Wednesday. Muriel Smith, Anne Gorham, Jane Bailly and self, started in my car about 10 a.m. On the way down the Eastern Passage Road, I called on Jimmie Fraser. At Barrie Beach [coordinates 44.602487, -63.474274] the growth was just starting. It should be right in about two weeks’ time, but it was very interesting at this early stage. We drove on to Hartlen Point and parked on the rifle range, but it started to rain hard, so we had our lunch and then went on to Rainbow Haven. There it was apparent that there was no boat available for navigating the current to West Lawrencetown. We were back in the lab early in the afternoon.

June 10-12, 1949 (Tower Hill, N.B.)
Friday to Sunday. Hockey and Gerry Hope picked me up at Bedford at 9:45 a.m. Hockey spent the night at St. Joseph. I stayed in Moncton. On Saturday Hockey and I went to St. Stephen and Tower Hill [coordinates 45.301985, -67.187718]. There we saw Creelman and Dave, inspected the blueberry project, collected material, and discussed the problems. On Sunday we drove back to Halifax. Hockey spent Sunday night with us. He and I stayed at the Queen Hotel at St. Stephen on Saturday night. We had fine weather all the way.

June 15, 1949 (Preston, Lake Eagle)
Wednesday. Shirley Mason, Jane Bailly, Muriel Smith and self-went to Hugh B’s place in my car. We left about 10 a.m. We left the car in the field and went right to the rock on the lake [coordinates 44.744956, -63.441597], had lunch, then the three girls went collecting. They got a lot of good mounts as per the list below. I went to sleep. After that they had a swim. On the way back we spotted poison ivy in bloom. Muriel fell in while crossing the brook. We did some more collecting by the old house and were back in the lab a little after 5.

• Lady’s slipper – Cypripedium acaule
• Indian cucumber-root
• Bunchberry – Cornus canadensis
• Trillium erectum
• Maianthemum canadense
• Viola lanceolata
• Yarrow
• Aronia
• Gaylussacia
• Poison Ivy in bloom

June 22, 1949 (Bog, Church of St. John the Baptist [coordinates 44.636041, -63.619851])
Wednesday. Anne, Jane and I went in the afternoon to get Arethusa. We got Pogonia and Calopogon, no Arethusa. The Venus Fly Trap was just coming into flower, but not quite out. The Bog Huckleberry was just coming out.

June 23, 1949 (Peggy’s Cove)
Thursday. Anne Gorham, Jane Bailly, Muriel Smith and self, went to hunt for Arethusa in bogs near Peggy’s Cove [coordinates 44.4933, -63.915096]. Anne drove most of the way both going and coming. We found the Arethusa in most of the bogs near the cove also a number of other plants including a diseased Cranberry. Near the lighthouse there were a number of plants in bloom, but we were too late for the Sedum. Probably it was in bloom a week or ten days earlier. In a puddle beside the road on the way out we got both Burr Reed and Hudsonia. It was foggy on the way down but turned out fine and warm at the cove. It was nearly 7 before we got home.

Plants collected:

• Sedum roseum
• Plantago oliganthus?
• Smilacina stellata
• Arethusa bulbosa
• Hudsonia ericoides
• Sparganium angustifolium
• Arenaria lateriflora
• Veronica americana
• Rhinanthus crista-galli var. fallax
• Vaccinium oxycoccus (normal)
• Vaccinium oxycoccus (diseased)

June 29, 1949 (Hubbards)
Wednesday. Anne Gorham reported that there were a lot of sand plants in bloom on the Hubbard’s Beach [coordinates 44.630283, -64.051953], so Anne, Jane Bailly, Muriel Smith and self, went down to get them. On the way down Anne passed her test for the driver’s license. We parked at Anne’s house at Hubbard’s, then walked to the beach. The flowers were good. We had lunch at Anne’s house and I went to sleep. The three girls collected the flowers and got a lot. We then drove to Fox Point and collected Typha. We arrived back in Halifax a little after 6.

Plants collected:

• Cicuta maculata
• Triglochin maritima
• Polygonum raii ?
• Sagina nodosa
• Lobelia dortmanna
• Potentilla palustris
• Arenaria peploides
• Cakile edentula
• Convolvulus sepium
• Mertensia maritima
• Lathyrus japonicus
• Chrysanthemum leucanthemum var. pinnatifidum
• Typha latifolia (near Fox Point Lighthouse)

July 2-4, 1949 (New Glasgow and Sheet Harbour)
Saturday to Monday. Anne Gorham, Shirley Mason, Mitchell and I left at 9 a.m. on Saturday. At Truro, the two girls and I collected on the flats beside the Salmon River and got a fair number of plants. Mitchell stayed in the car. At Kempton we collected again and had lunch. Mitchell and I ate what the girls had prepared. Near Salt Springs we took a detour to the right and passed through some interesting country, getting more flowers. There beside a stone house, and while the girls were putting the flowers in press, I met a chap named “Ron” from Hockey’s staff at Kentville. At New Glasgow, I secured my room at the Marfold, deposited Anne and Shirley with Dr. Cox, and took Mitchell out to the Y.M.C.A. camp. During the evening the two girls helped me pick out a cup for Marjorie and we saw Mitchell in New Glasgow. On Sunday we started at about 9 a.m., went through Stellarton, down the west side of the river to Sunnybrae and through Kerrowgare we made some good collections. We had lunch on the shore of Eden Lake and Shirley had a swim. We went through Glenelg and down the west side of the river to Sherbrooke. We collected along the St. Marys River. We got to Sheet Harbour about supper time, saw Helen Balcom and put up in the rooms she reserved for us at the Lyndhaven Hotel.  On Monday we again got off about 9 a.m. I called in to see the Beavers and saw Bill on the road. We went down to Clam Harbour, but the fog was so thick that we saw nothing. We had lunch beside a little lake near Jeddore. We branched off the main road at the West Chezzetcook and went home via Lawrencetown and Cole Harbour. We got good collections at West Chezzetcook, the Lawrencetown bog back of the main beach and on the boulder and gravel formations west of Lawrencetown. At the West Chezzetcook bog we found Calopogen, Arethusa, and Pogonia all in bloom at the same time in the same bog. The Cranesbill (Geranium) was in bloom on the boulder formation. We went back to Dartmouth by the Cole Harbour Road and got to the Forrest Bldg. about 5 p.m. On Saturday Mitchell did nearly all of the driving. On Sunday Anne did most of the driving and on Monday Anne did some, but I did most. Saturday and Sunday there was some fog. The whole trip was a success. Anne and Shirley did all the work.

July 2, Salmon River [coordinates 45.376748, -63.299426]:

• Lysimachia ciliata
• Circaea alpina
• Galium tinctorium
• Heracleum lanatum
• Arenaria lateriflora
• Rubus pubescens
• Polygonum cilinode
• Medicago sativa

Seen also – Echinocystis (not blooming), Lupins, Meadow Rue, Blackberries, Carex stipata.

July 2, Kempton [coordinates 45.469078, -63.073595]:

• Habenaria flava
• Erigeron ramosus
• Hieracium floribundum
• Viburnum trilobum
• Oenothera tetragona
• Oenothera perennis

July 2, Limerock [coordinates 45.5494, -62.847265]:

• Malva moschata

July 2, Big Cove [coordinates 45.604246, -62.511801]:

• Hieracium pilosella

July 3, Kerrowgare [coordinates 45.406604, -62.420904]:

• Rosa carolina
• Hieracium pilosella
• Senecio robbinsii

July 3, marsh near Eden Lake [coordinates 45.404645, -62.294367]:

• Nuphar rubrodiscum
• Lonicera villosa var. calvescens

July 3, Eden Lake [coordinates 45.404645, -62.294367]:

• Apocynum androsaemifolium

July 3, St. Mary’s River [coordinates 45.196989, -62.007330]:

• Veronica scutellate
• Apocynum sibiricum

July 3, Sheet Harbour [coordinates 44.923333, -62.537304]:

• Brassica juncea (white and yellow)

July 4, Clam Harbour [coordinates 44.733791, -62.876548]:

• Glaux maritima var. obtusifolia
• Rumex acetosella
• Cakile edentula

July 4, Lawrencetown inlet [coordinates 44.649892, -63.357964]:

• Geranium robertianum
• Plantago juncoides var. decipiens

July 4, bog at Chezzetcook [coordinates 44.741338, -63.269472]:

• Pogonia, Calopogon, Arethusa together
• Malaxis unifolia
• Utricularia cornuta

July 4, marsh behind big Lawrencetown beach [coordinates 44.645358, -63.339382]:

• Heracleum lanatum
• Potentilla palustris
• Menyanthes trifoliata
• Triglochin maritima
• Lathyrus palustris var. pilosus
• Smilacina stellata

July 6, 1949 (Bog near Church of St. John the Baptist [coordinates 44.635810, -63.619719])
Wednesday. Anne Gorham, Shirley Mason, Jane Bailly, Muriel Smith and self-went out during the morning to get some Drosera which was nearly in flower the last time we were at this bog. This time it was in flower and we got it.

July 12, 1949 (West Lawrencetown [coordinates 44.668104, -63.378699])

• Malaxis unifolia (woods)
• Melampyrum lineare (woods)
• Epilobium glandulosum var. adenocaulon (deserted farm)
• Filipendula ulmaria (deserted farm)
• Dracocephalum (deserted farm)
• Lappula echinata (deserted farm)
• Sisymbrium altissimum (deserted farm)

Old pier

• Plantago Major
• Zostera marina washed up on beach

Enclosed beach

• Arenaria groenlandica
• Arenaria lateriflora
• Spergularia marina
• Ligusticum scotiucum
• Limonium nashii (not quite bloom)

July 12, 1949 (West Lawrencetown)
Tuesday. Anne Gorham, Jane Bailly, Eileen Gorham, Muriel Smith and I went to study sand plants. We left about 9 a.m. and picked up Muriel as we passed through Dartmouth. Shortly after we got too West Lawrencetown [coordinates 44.668104, -63.378699] the fog rolled in pretty thick. Anne, Jane and I collected along the sand. Muriel and Eileen went back to one of the deserted farms. On the sands, many of the plants for which this collecting spot is famous were not in flower as yet, but we got a number of early plants which we had not collected before. Muriel and Eileen got a lot of plants around the deserted farm. We had our lunch in the usual place and a sleep afterwards. Jane said I snored. It was too cold to go in for a swim. We visited the place where the bridge had been and started for home early. We got back to the lab about 3:30. The girls (Anne & Jane) put the flowers in the press, and Eileen helped Anne identify some of the plants.

July 15, 1949 (Barrie Beach [coordinates 44.601008, -63.469748])

• Lysimachia terrestris
• Alisma triviale
• Sparganium eurycarpum
• Ranunculus cymbalaria
• Scirpus validus (fruit)
• Aster
• Rumex

July 19, H.P. Bell and Anne Gorham
Shaw Bog, Hants Co. [coordinates 45.024544, -64.179169]

• Geum aleppicum
• Habenaria lacera
• Rubus hispidus
• Hypericum canadense
• Galium palustre
• Galium asprellum
• Erigeron ramosus
• Sambucus canadensis

Bridge at Halfway River [coordinates 45.062989, -64.177658]

• Apocynum sibiricum

Bluff Road [coordinates 45.074882, -64.192027]

• Campanula rapunculoides

Along Gasperau River Road [coordinates 45.099319, -64.269375]

• Clematis virginiana
• Verbascum thapsus

White Rocks, at bridge [coordinates 45.048708, -64.414558]

• Hieracium pratense and Hieracium aurantiacum
• Agrimonia
• Mimulus ringens

Windsor roadside [coordinates 44.99287, -64.135677]

• Cichorium intybus

July 15, 1949 (Barrie Beach)
Friday. Anne Gorham, Jane Bailly and I went to Barrie Beach [coordinates 44.601090, -63.469698] to get Alisma. We went in my car and started at 2:30. The Alisma was not out sufficiently to make a wet collection, but we got enough for the herbarium. They collected a number of other things including a small Ranunculus. The Scirpus validus (Bullrush) was over. Should try for this about June 24. We should go about July 20 for the Alisma. I drove on to the sandy beach and got some gravel. There was some Navy chap there who got their truck stuck in the sand. We were back in the lab by 5 p.m. It was a fine warm day.

July 19, 1949 (Shaws Bog, White Rock, Kentville)
Tuesday. Anne Gorham and I left about 9:30 in my car. On the main highways Anne drove the car. Just beyond Falmouth we turned off into Shaws Bog [coordinates 45.027232, -64.178234]. The weather was sultry, and the flies were pretty bad. There were a lot of flowers which neither of us knew, so we made a number of collections. At the north end of the bog and beside the road, there were great quantities of the Black Elderberry (Sambucus canadensis) in flower. We stopped for a few minutes at the bridge over Halfway River [coordinates 45.062956, -64.177568] but did not get much except Dogbane. At Hantsport we got gas and had a good lunch at Don’s café, then went via the shore road to Avonport, and through the Gaspereau Valley to White Rock. Anne got a number of flowers at White Rock [coordinates 45.050046, -64.415863] then via Canaan to the Experimental Farm. There we saw “the gang.” Anne got the flowers in the press and got some of them identified. I drank the rest of the coffee which Marjorie had given me. Anne drove home. We ran into heavy rain at Mount Uniacke. Arrived in Halifax after 7 p.m.

July 21, 1949 (Eastern Passage, Barrie Beach [coordinates 44.601090, -63.469698])
Thursday. Anne Gorham, John S. Erskine and I started about 2 p.m. in my car. It was a fine day and Erskine found a lot of plants. We were back in the lab at 5 p.m., where he and Anne sorted the plants out and put them in the press.

• Epilobium palustre (beside marsh)
• Myosotis laxa (beside marsh)
• Alisma triviale (beside marsh)
• Radiola linoides (away from salt water on mud flats)
• Limosella subulata (mud flats near shore)
• Epilobium coloratum (mud flats near shore)
• Eleocharis acicularis (mud flats near shore)
• Ranunculus cymbalaria (mud flats near shore)
• Anthemis cotula (mud flats near shore)
• Cotula coronopifolia (sand beside brackish pond)
• Ranunculus sceleratus (sand beside brackish pond)
• Triglochin palustris (sand beside brackish pond)

July 25, 1949 (Breakwater)
Monday. Miss DeWitt, Anne Gorham, Jane Bailly, Erskine and I went to Breakwater to get seaweeds for Miss Dewitt.

July 26, 1949 (Herring Cove [coordinates 44.570296, -63.568215])
Tuesday. Miss DeWitt, Anne Gorham, Erskine and self-went in my car to get algae for Miss DeWitt. The day was perfect, the tide dead low and the sea remarkably calm. We got lots of algae, but Erskine and Anne did not get many flowering plants.  We started about 2 p.m. and were back in the lab with seaweeds about 5 p.m.

July 27, 1949 (Bedford, West of Rifle Ranges)
Wednesday. Anne Gorham, Jane Bailly, Erskine and I went to west of rifle ranges [coordinates 44.739916, -63.661211] to get anything we could find. Erskine found a lot of flowers we needed. We left at 2 p.m. and spent all our time either on the meadow beside the barn or on the woods road. At the Ranges we just went along the riverbank below the bridge in the woods, the mosquitoes were pretty bad. Anne drove through town both ways. We were back in the lab by 5 p.m. Anne started to make the fern collection for Crowdis. Most of the ferns were just about right. The composites were not completely out in bloom on the ranges themselves.

Near barn:

• Neslia paniculata^[2]
• Urtica dioica
• Thlaspi arvense

Meadow on island:

• Dulichium arundinaceum
• Hydrocotyle americana
• Polygonum sagittatum

Roadside:

• Rubus hispidus
• Hypericum ellipticum, Hypericum virginicum, Hypericum canadense
• Dryopteris noveboracensis
• Athyrium
• Dennstaedtia punctilobula

Along river bed:

• Sium suave
• Sparganium americanum
• Alisma triviale (seen)

July 29, 1949 (Oakfield)
Friday. Anne Gorham, Shirley Mason and I went to Oakfield [coordinates 44.900848, -63.576605] to get ferns for the Museum collection. We left about 10:30 a.m. and Anne drove both ways. Col. Laurie gave us cold coffee both going and coming. We collected ferns on the way out and got samples of all we were expecting. They were in perfection condition. At Indian Point Shirley and I went in for a swim, had lunch and a rest. We then collected some flowering plants. I found what turned out to be Asclepias incarnata var. neoscotica. There were a number of beach plants I did not know. Anne brought them in. It was a very hot day with thunder clouds in the distance. We got home a little after 5 p.m.

Woods at Oakfield:

• Beech fern
• Shield fern
• Christmas fern
• Brachen
• New York fern
• Lady fern
• Interrupted fern

Shore at Indian Point:

• Myriophyllum tenellum
• Asclepias incarnata var. neoscotica
• Lycopus americana
• Mentha arvensis
• Utricularia cornuta
• Littorella americana

August 2, 1949 (Dingle and Williams Lake)
Tuesday. Anne Gorham and I went out in my car. We left at 2:30 p.m. First, we went to the Dingle [coordinates 44.62996, -63.596871]. There the rock was being blasted from the corner of the road.  We waited for a blast to go off, then parked inside the gate and collected rock fern for both the herbarium and for the stomata sections. We then went on to get the chain fern. Extensive road work was going on there too, so for safety I parked the car on Pearson McCurdy’s property. We walked to the old pond or bog where I collected willows in 1920. The road work had nearly filled in the pond, but the fronds of the chain fern were still available, and we made a collection. Then we walked up to Williams Lake and found Indian Pipe, Drosera etc. Also, there was considerable Utricularia on which Anne spotted white or light-colored structures.  These turned out to be seed pods full of seed. So, this should be a good place for getting the flowers of this species. There was also considerable Potamogeton. The teaberries were in full flower. We returned to the lab about 5 p.m. where Anne looked after the material. It was a very good day.

• Chain fern
• Rock fern
• Montropa uniflora
• Lycopus uniflorus
• Drosera longifolia (in fruit)
• Utricularia geminiscapa (in fruit)
• Potamogeton

August 3, 1949 (Windsor area)
Wednesday. Anne Gorham, Erskine and I started for Windsor in my car at 2 p.m. The purpose of the trip was to have Erskine show us the good collecting grounds in the vicinity of Windsor. We left the main road just beyond Three Mile Plains [coordinates 44.969262, -64.105973] and drove in to Lebreau Creek as per Anne’s description given below:

[Anne Gorham’s description] Wednesday afternoon. Followed main highway from Halifax to Three Mile Plains; past there and before reaching turn-off to Brooklyn is a side road on the left opposite a general store; the place is called Swinamer’s Corner. Following this side road, a crossroads is reached. The left turn here leads to a river with falls [coordinates 44.950123, -64.107665], and farther up, a reservoir. Rich woods plants, such as Aster macrophylla, are found here. Following the right branch of the road past the crossroad, there is a ridge of gypsum on the right, where Cystopteris bulbifera grows; the spot is reached by walking across farms. The road passes a small lake on the left (Fish Hatcheries Lake) just past this, a brook crosses the road, Lebreau Creek. Below the bridge on the right there was Joe-Pye weed, Scutellaria epilobifolia and Daphne mezereum. Potamogetons are in the brook, and farther along the right bank (over two wire fences) is Asclepias incarnata var. pulchra. Myriophyllum expected here, also Ranunculus aquatilis. By the brook on the left of the road, Ranunculus abortivus should be found. Continuing along road, a right turn leads onto Chester Road.  Along Chester Road going toward Windsor, stopped at bridge over Lebreau Creek. Rosa eglanteria is among tall bushes growing against fence. Sonchus arvensis and Tragopogon pratensis on bank. Rosa carolina is the small rose bush here. Callitriche, Potamogeton bupleuroides, and Sagittaria latifolia^[3] in the stream. Ranunculus abortivus not seen.

We continue farther along road for Cystopteris bulbifera and turn up the road by a chicken farm. We park at Oulton’s farm, walk over the ridge and find ferns by the gypsum chimneys about 200-400 yds from the house. On the Chester Road nearer Windsor, we turn up road on the right opposite Atwell and McNeil’s post box, then turn left by a farmhouse and right by an orchard. We park at a farm on top of hill. Pond is right there. Acorus calamus grows among cattails around edge of pond. Lemna minor and trisculca were found in wet mud at edge of water. We walk a half mile (or more) past a barn to a bog which is in gully on left of path just inside the edge of a spurce woods. Calla palustris, Cotton Grass, Chiogenes, Rhynchospora alba, Habenaria lacera, Dryopteris cristata, Dryopteris thelypteris and Potentilla palustris grow here. Leaving Windsor for Halifax, at the second house on the left before Curry’s Corner we see Red seeded Dandelion and Plantago rugelii growing on the lawn. Past Curry’s Corner, before crossing railway tracks, there is a dirt road on the left; about a quarter mile back of this, there is a pond which dries up in summer, where Proserpinaca and Polygonum amphibium may be found.

August 5, 1949 (Kearney Lake and Mill Cove Road)
Friday. Anne Gorham, Jane Bailly, Shirley Mason and I left in my car at 2 p.m. Parked car in the usual place at Kearney Lake [coordinates 44.687607, -63.682290], but had trouble getting car into reverse. We walked around the end of the lake hunting for Littorella along the shore but did not find any. Probably too much soft mud. We did find Isoetes and Mermaid weed (Proserpinaca pectinata). The lake was very low. We walked up the woods road about a mile and I found the Silvery Spleenwort fern. The road was all overgrown with grass, but the road around the head of the lake was improved and good enough for a car. On the way back to the lake Anne found some other flowers and collected Sensitive fern. At the lake Shirley went in for a swim while Jane and I got the car. We drove back by the Mill Cove Road and Anne collected some Tansy. We were back in the lab a little after 5 p.m. It was a mighty hot day. The horse flies were bad.

Collections at Kearney Lake:

• Silver Spleenwort
• Sensitive Fern
• Hydrocotyle
• Lobelia inflata
• Circaea alpina
• Tansy
• Proserpinaca pectinata

August 10, 1949 (Hubbards, Sawler Lake, etc.)
Wednesday. Marjorie, Jimmie, Shirley Mason, Anne Gorham and I left about 10 a.m. in my car. Jimmie drove. We went to the Gorham’s house first and Marjorie and Jimmie stayed there. The rest of us went to Sawler Lake [coordinates 44.646806, -64.0684], got the Lee’s older boat at the slip, and rowed across to the sandy beach where we collected, Isoetes. After that we went up to the cove near the Hart’s house and found the floating Utricularia in flower, then back to the other end of the lake for water lilies. There I got wet in the sawdust. The Lee’s were away, but we ate our lunch on their verandah and were entertained by the cat.  We drove back to Anne’s house where Marjorie and Jimmie had just finished lunch. Marjorie made us cup of tea, pressed my pants and I had a sleep. When I woke up Anne, Jimmie and I went collecting on the beach. There was a big picnic there from Maitland. Jimmie and Anne had a swim. We all had supper at Anne’s house. Shriley and Anne put the flowers in the press. We saw Mr. [Shatford] and Muriel on the beach.  Muriel called at Anne’s house. Anne got everything tidy and locked up.  Jimmie drove home and we arrived back in Halifax about 6:45 p.m.

August 10, 1949

Sawler Lake:

• Nymphaea odorata
• Utricularia inflata
• Elatine minima
• Subularia aquatica

Hubbards Shore:

• Aster foliaceus
• Ambrosia artemisiifolia
• Bidens frondosa
• Parthenocissus quinquefolia

August 22, 1949 (Silver Lake, Black Bake, Chebucto Head)
Monday. Anne Gorham and I started off about 10:30 a.m. in my car. First, we went to Silver Lake [coordinates 44.556874, -63.642155] and collected some Desmid material. Then we went to Black Lake [coordinates unknown]. There the man who owns the house was making hay and I had some trouble turning the car due to the rocks being covered up with hay. The gear shifter got out of order and it was difficult to change gears. We got the car turned around, then went down to the lake, flushed some partridges and got good fern material. We then drove on to Sambro, the gear shifter getting progressively worse. On the Sambro road, just at the road leading to Bald Rock Hill, the car stopped.  A workman told me it was a dead battery. Anne and I walked and hitchhiked to Ketch Harbour and telephoned to Purdy’s. We had lunch on a wharf then walked back to the car. In due time Purdy’s car arrived, put in a new battery and patched the gear shift. Anne and I then drove on and visited her cranberry patch at Chebucto Head [coordinates 44.500891, -63.520622]. The cranberries were ripe. It was really the best trip of the summer. We were back in the lab at 4:30. At Black Lake there were great mats of ripe snowberries.

August 24-25, 1949 (Amherst marshes, Joggins and West Brook)
Wednesday and Thursday. Anne Gorham, Shirley Mason, Jimmie, Mitchell and I left at 8:40 in my car. We got to West Brook [coordinates 45.556847, -64.299251] about noon, met the Dickenson brothers, arranged for them to let me know when they “strawed” their patches, had lunch, saw them winnowing some blueberries and were off for Amherst without much delay. At Amherst we got our rooms at the Fort Cumberland Hotel, left Shirley and Anne on the Amherst marshes [coordinates 45.858332, -64.196925] then the three of us went to Sackville. The car tire started to go flat, so while Mithell and I were talking to Mr. Parker, Jimmie got the flat fixed. We joined the two girls on the marshes, put the plants in the presses, visited the old fort then went to Fort Cumberland Hotel for the night. Cameron and Lewin were at the Hotel too. On Thursday we went to Joggins [coordinates 45.709722, -64.435833], but I could not find many fossils. Perhaps I just did not know a fossil when I saw it, perhaps we were on the wrong part of the beach. From Joggins we went to Oxford where we had lunch and took Shirley to her Grandmother’s at Wallace. We then went to Truro via Earltown and were home by 6:30.

Amherst marsh, from Hayfields to highway embankment and dyke:

• Spartina patens
• Juncus gerardii
• Trifolium procumbens
• Thlaspi arvense
• Cirsium vulgare
• Sonchus arvensis
• Leontodon autumnalis
• Salicornia europaea
• Achillea millefolium
• Sisymbrium altissimum
• Limonium nashii
• Triglochin maritima
• Arctium minus
• Solidago graminifolia
• Linaria vulgaris
• Spiraea latifolia
• Aster umbellatus
• Aster foliaceus
• Polygonum scabrum
• Ranunculus cymbalaria
• Vicia cracca
• Solidago sempervirens
• Atriplex patula
• Suaeda maritima
• Plantago juncoides var. decipiens
• Polygonum cilinode

August 31, 1949 (Lake Eagle)
Wednesday. Jane Bailly, Muriel, Hope Bridgeford, Muriel Ord and self-went to Lake Eagle [coordinates 44.744956, -63.441597] to look over the blueberry species and possibilities of burning. We left about 11 a.m., collected some goldenrods and asters, and picked out two good areas for strawing. We had lunch at the usual place. I had a sleep. The girls went in bathing and read a book. We were back in the lab a little after 5 p.m. It was a hot day.

September 8-10, 1949 (Pubnico and Lunenburg)
Thursday to Saturday. After getting Mitchell on the train for Mount Allison, Marjorie and I picked up Jane Bailly at the Forrest Bldg. Jane and I got away at 9:40. It was threatening rain but did not start to rain hard till the middle of the day. I got gas and a cup of coffee at Mahone Bay and we had good lunch at the Savannah restaurant in Liverpool. We arrived in Pubnico [coordinates 43.702489, -65.784222] at 3:15 just before Smith arrived. I went with Benoit and Ambrose d’Entremont to inspect the plots. I had got a room at Ruben d’Eon’s and Jane got a room in Delphis’ house. Benoit took us to the turnip plot first. Smith etc. came with us to this plot. The grass plots and vegetable plots I visited by myself. On getting back to Pubnico, I found that Smith had arranged a “conference” at the Lakeview Hotel in Yarmouth. So Delphis took C. MacFarlane, Benoit d’Entremeont, Jane Bailly and I over to Yarmouth. There we met Simth and party, had dinner (the “conference”) were joined by Mr. & Mrs. Allen d’Entremont and drove back to Publico. There along with C. MacFarlane and Benoit d’Entremont, I outlined a fertilization programme for next year. I went to bed. Jane apparently went for a drive.

On Friday after saying good-bye to Allen d’Entremont we left about 9:15 a.m. in two cars; C. MacFarlane with me, and Jane with Delphis. We inspected Guilford’s insulator plant at Sable River, had lunch at Evelyn’s Lunch Room, then headed for Vogler’s Cove. C. MacFarlane and I inspected the place at Vogler’s Cove and decided it was not suitable for her work. Jane and Delphis had got lost, but they turned up just as we were leaving. From Vogler’s Cove we headed for the Ovens and arrived there at 4:30 p.m. C. MacFarlane showed me the bed of kelp which she had found. It was a good bed, but it was right in the surf line and quite inaccessible at ordinary times. The surf was quite high. Before starting for Lunenburg Jane took C. MacFarlane and Delphis to see the Ovens. Jane drove back to Lunenburg with me. C. MacFarlane, Delphis and I put up at the Boscawen Manor. On Saturday morning Jane called for us at 9 a.m. but we (not me) were not ready. When ready we inspected the lab on Zwickers Wharf, then went to Jane’s house where C. MacFarlane Was shown everything. At Zwickers Wharf we saw Don Betts working in the lab. After C. MacFarlane and Delphis left, Mrs. Bailly gave me a most welcome cup of tea. Then Marjorie, Jane and I drove to Halifax arriving at YWCA about 12:45 p.m. Everything under control. While this trip was in progress Anne, Eileen Gorham, M. Ord and H. Bridgeford went to Cape Breton in the Mercury.

September 7-11, 1949 (Cape Breton trip)
On the trip were Eileen Gorham (Chauffeur), Muriel Ord (Zoologist), Hope Bridgeford (Zoologist) and Anne Gorham (Botanist).

Collected September 7, 1949 at Salt Springs, Pictou Co. [coordinates 45.543512, -62.882039]:

• Lychnis alba (?)
• Silene cucubalus (?)
• Geranium robertianum
• Erigeron ramosus
• Aster macrophyllus (?)
• Aster Cordifolius (?)
• Chelone
• Senecio jacobaea
• Solidago flexicaulis

Collected September 7, 1949 at Port Hawkesbury, Inverness Co. [coordinates 45.616462, -61.356262]:

• Aster
• Aster lateriflorus (?)
• Solidago rugosa (?)
• Solidago puberula (?)

Collected September 8, 1949 at 1949 Port Hastings, Inverness. Co. [coordinates 45.646132, -61.403182]:

• Myosotis

Collected September 8, 1949 at Long Point, Inverness Co. [coordinates 45.810759, -61.480174]:

• Epilobium palustre
• Epilobium coloratum
• Eupatorium perfoliatum

Collected September 8, 1949 on detour from Judique to Mabou, Inverness Co. [coordinates 46.071979, -61.392397]:

• Polygonum
• Hydrocotyle americana

Collected September 8, 1949 at Dunvegan, Inverness Co. [coordinates 46.298244, -61.229432]:

• Lysimachia punctata

Collected September 8, 1949 at Margaree, Inverness Co. [coordinates 46.397142, -61.074805]:

• Brassica

Collected September 8, 1949 at North East Margaree, Inverness Co. [coordinates 46.326272, -61.00893]:

• Agrimonia
• Sanguisorba canadensis
• Eupatorium maculatum
• Galeopsis
• Leonurus
• Solidago flexicaulis

Collected September 8, 1949 at East Margaree, Inverness, Co. [coordinates 46.300858, -61.229188]:

• Bidens hyperborea
• Chelone glabra
• Ranunculus aquatilis
• Lemna minor
• Ranunculus aquatilis var. capillaceum

Collected September 8, 1949 at East Margaree to Margaree River (at counting fence) Inverness Co.[coordinates unknown]:

• Myriophyllum alterniflorum var. americanum (?)
• Potamogeton epihydrus (?)

Collected September 9, 1949 at Baddeck, Victoria Co. [coordinates 46.100104, -60.753744]:

• Salicornia
• Triglochin

Collected September 9, 1949 at Boularderie, Victoria Co. [coordinates 46.163555, -60.568025]:

• Athyrium angustum var. rubellum
• Geranium robertianum
• Dryopteris phegopteris
• Dryopteris spinulosa (?)

Collected September 9, 1949 at Ross Ferry, Victoria Co. [coordinates 46.143662, -60.584029]:

• Fern

Collected September 9, 1949 at Sydney Mines, Cape Breton Co. [coordinates 46.242301, -60.231459]:

• Symphoricarpos
• Aster

Collected September 9, 1949 at Louisbourg, Cape Breton, Co. [coordinates 45.919865, -59.972807]:

• Aster
• Chelone glabra
• Polygonum
• Sanguisorba
• Umbellifera

Collected September 10, 1949 at Irish Cove, Richmond Co. [coordinates 45.820117, -60.676519]:

• Galium palustre
• Sparganium chlorocarpum

Collected September 10, 1949 at Soldier’s Cove, Richmond Co. [coordinates 45.700564, -60.737059]:

• Linum catharticum
• Odontites rubra

Collected September 10, 1949 at Grande Anse, Richmond Co. [coordinates 45.621586, -61.062356]:

• Buckwheat (fagopyrum)

Collected September 10, 1949 at Marble Mountain, Innerness Co. [coordinates 45.818323, -61.042516]:

• Solidago flexicaulis
• Plantago Lanceolata

Collected September 11, 1949 at Whycocomagh, Inverness Co. [coordinates 45.973824, -61.119122]:

• Inula Helenium
• Lysimachia punctata

Collected September 11, 1949 at Kingsville, Inverness Co. [coordinates 45.781795, -61.31672]:

• Stellaria uliginosa
• Cardamine pensylvanica
• Utricularia
• Sium
• Aster acuminatus

Collected September 11, 1949 near Mulgrave, Guysborough Co. [coordinates 45.612156, -61.391725]:

• Utricularia
• Hawkweed
• Aralia hispida

September 22, 1949 (Kentville)
Thursday. Marjorie and I went to Kentville so that I could interview, Hockey, Kelsall, and Liefe regarding the utilization plots at Pubnico. My interview went off ok and Marjorie got a big bunch of fruit. We were away all day.

September 27, 1949 (Truro and Debert)
Tuesday. Anne and I left in my car to interview Roland and George Smith in Truro. We left about 9:30 a.m. and Muriel Ord and Hope Bridgeford came along with us. We got to Truro in good time and I had my interview with George Smith before lunch. We had lunch out in the open and were badly bitten by skiters. After lunch Anne went over the mounts with Roland while I had a game of Bridge. Then Roland took us out collecting. We went first to the dam at the east end of the lake called Galloping Brook [coordinates 45.387741, -63.42093]. There was a military truck stuck on the dam and it was pulled out while we were there. We collected Eladia at this spot. From there we went to the Marchantia spot on the main road but got nothing. We went next to the village of Debert [coordinates 45.437701, -63.458516]. There is a pond right in the middle of the village where we got marvelous Spirogyra. Roland then took us out a road which runs due west from the college. It crosses two brooks. In one (the west one) just above a beaver dam, we got more excellent Spirogyra. In the other we collected some dark muck which turned out to be a mixture of Tabularia with two species of Tribonema and Oscillatoria. After getting back to our own car at the college, we started for home and arrived in Halifax after 6 p.m. Anne drove both ways.

September 29, 1949 (Dingle)
Thursday. Anne and I went over to the Dingle [coordinates 44.629763, -63.598942] to hunt for mushrooms in the early stages. At first, we did not find many good ones but finally we got some good specimens. I made the mistake of having her preserve some whole mushrooms in absolute alcohol. They were dehydrated and shrank to half their size.

October 4th, 1949 (Punch Bowl / Lake Louise)
Tuesday. Anne and I went to the Punch Bowl [coordinates 44.625468, -63.618585] to try to get Gloeocapsa for Botany 2. We took five jam jars and collected at various spots around the lake. We got good Desmids but not a darn specimen of Gloeocapsa.

October 5, 1949 (Bog, St. John the Baptist [coordinates 44.635759, -63.619621])
Wednesday. Anne and I went out as soon as we got to the college and got jars full of material with Desmids hoping to get Gloeocapsa. There were great quantities of good Spirogyra and when we got the collections back in the lab, they were just loaded with Closterium and a few other Desmids and Mougeotia, but still no Gloeocapsa.

October 10, 1949 (West Brook)
Thanksgiving Monday. Anne, Jimmie and I went to West Brook [coordinates 45.556847, -64.299251] to see how much straw was put on the blueberry patches. The elder of the Dickenson brothers showed us around. We took Mitchell and his friend as far as Truro and then picked them up on the way back. Returning from West Brook to Truro we went through the Wentworth Valley. The coloration of the leaves was especially good. Between Truro and Halifax we picked up Annes’s brother John. We got back a little after 7 p.m.

October 13, 1949 (Silver Lake, Dingle, Waverly)
Thursday. Dan Livingstone took Anne to Silver Lake [coordinates 44.556874, -63.642155] to get Desmids. Shane went too. They went in the jeep. The collection they got was good containing many things in addition to Desmids. While out they got the ferns for Biology 1 at the Dingle [coordinates 44.62996, -63.596871] and collected a green scum on the surface of the water at Waverley [coordinates 44.782519, -63.599634]. This turned out to be Euglena.

November 1, 1949 (Herring Cove [coordinates 44.572534, -63.557523])
Tuesday. Anne and I left in my car at about 11 a.m. to collect kelp and Ascophyllum for Botany 2. We got good fruiting kelps and lots of Ascophyllum and were back about 1 p.m.

LAST TRIP FOR 1949