NATURE NOTES FROM ACADIA

NOVEMBER FLOWERS

as the severe winter of 1933-1934 proved to be a decided contrast to the winter which preeeded it, so the month of November, 1934 proved to be wholly unlike the November of 1933. Whereas the eleventh-month of a year ago was of decided wintry aspect, the November of 1934 yielded very little snow and cold. From throughout New England came reports of mild weather, singing tree-frogs, and blossoming wildflowers.

Somehow the finding of flowers which are in bloom out of their normal season yields a peculiar fascination to me, and goes, back many years to a time when, in my early boyhood, I, much to my amazement, came upon blue violets blossoming in the leaf-carpeted woods of late autumn. In later years, however, I grew to expect these common flowers during the Indian Summer days.

Following is a list of plants which were in flower in Acadia National Park during the month of November. All are wild plants in the respect that they grow and reproduce themselves out-of-doors without the intervention of mankind. The first 15 in this list were found during the first week of the month, although a number of these continued to bloom for some time thereafter; all the remainder, with the exception of the last-listed plant, were found during the second week. The Thyme-leaved Speedwell was found by Mr. Vernon Lunt in the 20th while the Blue Violet continued to bloom as late as December 2. A number of those listed are not far remeved from their normal flowering time.

Herb Robert (Robertiella Robertiana)
Trailing Arbutus (Epigaea repens)
Sheep Laurel (Kalmia angustifolia)
Yarrow (Achillea Millefolium)
Aster (Aster sp.)
Fleabane (Erigeron sp.)
Indian Tobacco (Lobelia inflata)
Fall Dandelion (Apargia autumnale)
Goldenrod (Solidago sp.)
Wild Strawberry (Fragaria virginiana)
Evening Primrose (Oenothera biennis)
Ladies Tresses (Ibidium sp.)
Witch Hazel (Hamamaekis virginiana)
Pearly Everlasting (Antennaria plantaginifolia)
Red Clover (Trifolium pratense)
Mayweed (Anthemis cotula)
Pussy Willow (Salix sp.)
Blue Violet (Viola sp.)
Spring Dandelion (Leontodon taraxacum)
Common Mullein (Verbascum thapsus)
Buttercup (Ranunculus sp.)
Wild Mustard (Brassica sp.)
Bluet (Houstonia coerulea)
Speedwell (Veronica serpyllifolia)

- A. S.