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Sept. 5, 2006 - I joined a walk again in evening of the Irving Botanical
Gardens of the Irving Centre, and then the Acadia Univ. Woodland Trail.
Present were Tony Coakley, Harold Forsyth, Joanne Bishop?, Eli ?, and
myself. Plants noted in bloom were GROUND NUT, TURTLEHEAD (these two
species were in the botanic gardens adjacent to bog area), SPOTTED JEWELWEED
(lots), HORSEWEED, WILD CUCUMBER, TALL WHITE LETTUCE, HAWKWEED (the species
with purple spots on the leaves earlier in the season?)(possibly more than
one species now in flower?), PEPPERMINT, a small-flowered SKULLCAP?? (Joanne
collected one plant for Ruth Newell to identify), SILVERROD and other
GOLDENRODS, various ASTER species, one NIPPLEWORT plant still in bloom
(others all have fruited and died/dried up), QUEEN-ANNE¹S-LACE, etc.
We found a few more mushrooms, among them a LACTARIUS that had a cap
purplish with reddish circular lines and beige gills with yellowish latex,
possibly ³Yellow-latex Milky², Lactarius vinaceorufescens ??
Also I noted on tree-trunk bark the no-longer slimy remains of several
fruiting bodies of a SLIME MOLD, probably ³Scrambled-egg Slime², Fuligo
septica ; these now-flattened bodies were tan to beige in colour and were
the spore-producing bodies formed after the plasmodium probably climbed up
the bark from the forest floor of wood/bark chips etc.
Harold heard an EASTERN WOOD-PEWEE call, plus blue jays.
PHOTOS taken along Acadia Univ. Woodland Trail, of jewelweed normal vs.
galled flowers, jewelweed flowers with ripe seed-pods ready to burst open
when touched, mildew on willow leaves, etc.?
Cheers from Jim in Wolfville, 542-9204
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Jim (James W.) Wolford
91 Wickwire Avenue
Wolfville, Nova Scotia, Canada
B4P 1W3
phone (902)542-9204 (home)
fax (902)585-1059 (Acadia Univ. Biology Dept.)
e-mail <jimwolford@eastlink.ca>
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³In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.² -- John
Muir
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³In wildness is the preservation of the world.² -- Henry David Thoreau
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