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--Boundary_(ID_o8iBO51i34x2q4GcUmvVwQ) Content-type: text/plain; CHARSET=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT MAY 4, 2010 - "NATURE COUNTS" evening walk (now every Tues. at 6:30 p.m. through late August) at the Harriet Irving Botanical Gardens. Tonight there were 8-10 participants, including "Sherri" of the HIBG, Jo Bishop, Harold Forsyth, Rosemary & Jim Jotcham (Jim & I decades ago shared the teaching of "Field Biology", a summer course in local flora & fauna), et al. Here is my list of noted blooming plants: bluets (1), blue violet (2 species), light blue violet with spotted petals, shadbush/Indian pear/ serviceberry (2 species), lowbush blueberry, wild strawberry, forget- me-nots (blue, pink, & white varieties together), sweet fern (not a fern)(relative of bayberry), Forsythia, marsh marigold, skunk? currant, rhodora, goldthread, sheep laurel/lambkill, leatherleaf, tall dwarf birch (an oxymoron), common dandelion, coltsfoot, cuckoo- flower, pussy-toes (Antennaria neglecta?), baneberry species (looked like red baneberry to me but labelled as white baneberry, so I'm probably wrong!)(see note below), willows (3? species), red elderberry, speckled alder, white trillium, roseroot (Sedum), bearberry, red or purple trillium, toothwort, blue cohosh, sessile- leaved bellwort, and wild Aralia or sarsaparilla almost in bloom. [The next day I checked the BANEBERRY plant (actually 3 plants there) for the key characteristic for identification (from New Flora of N.S. by Marian Zinck/Munro), i.e. whether the entire undersurface of the leaf is hairy vs. hairs just along the veins on the underside -- and the leaves examined had hairs apparently only on the veins, thus belong to Actaea alba, a.k.a. WHITE BANEBERRY, just as the permanent tag/sign indicates (but the inflorescence appears more like that of red baneberry). Now we'll have to look for the stalks of the berries and berry colour too if they develop normally later.] Other observations in the Botanical Gardens: black "dead-man's- fingers" fungus (last year's?), "turkey-tail" polypore fungus, tall fiddleheads of ostrich ferns shown + old fruiting stalks, other unfurling ferns included lady ferns (both green and red morphs) + cinnamon fern + royal fern + 1 maidenhair fern, common horsetail (both spore-producing and green vegetative shoots), pine sp. male cones almost open, spring peeper treefrogs giving the rising trill- like "rain call" (under appropriate skies with slight drizzles), "cheese-burger" song calls of black-capped chickadees, Harold Forsyth heard a distant singing cardinal (in the direction of where I live on Wickwire Ave., where I have not heard any for quite a while), song sparrows singing, etc. Cheers from Jim in Wolfville Jim (James W.) Wolford 91 Wickwire Ave. Wolfville, Nova Scotia, Canada B4P 1W3 phone 902-542-9204 e-mail <jimwolford@eastlink.ca> "In wildness is the preservation of the world" -- Henry David Thoreau --Boundary_(ID_o8iBO51i34x2q4GcUmvVwQ) Content-type: text/html; CHARSET=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable <html><body style=3D"word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; = -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; = margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><span = class=3D"Apple-style-span" style=3D"font-size: 12px; "><b>MAY 4, = 2010</b> -<b> "NATURE COUNTS" evening walk</b> (now every Tues. at 6:30 = p.m. through late August) at the <b>Harriet Irving Botanical = Gardens</b>. Tonight there were 8-10 participants, including = "Sherri" of the HIBG, Jo Bishop, Harold Forsyth, Rosemary & Jim = Jotcham (Jim & I decades ago shared the teaching of "Field Biology", = a summer course in local flora & fauna), et al.</span></div><div = style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; = margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; = min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; = margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font = face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica">Here is = my list of noted <b>blooming plants</b>: bluets (1), blue violet (2 = species), light blue violet with spotted petals, shadbush/Indian = pear/serviceberry (2 species), lowbush blueberry, wild strawberry, = forget-me-nots (blue, pink, & white varieties together), sweet fern = (not a fern)(relative of bayberry), Forsythia, marsh marigold, skunk? = currant, rhodora, goldthread, sheep laurel/lambkill, leatherleaf, = tall dwarf birch (an oxymoron), common dandelion, coltsfoot, = cuckoo-flower, pussy-toes (<i>Antennaria neglecta</i>?), <b>baneberry = species</b> (looked like red baneberry to me but labelled as white = baneberry, so I'm probably wrong!)<b>(see note below)</b>, willows (3? = species), red elderberry, speckled alder, white trillium, roseroot = (<i>Sedum</i>), bearberry, red or purple trillium, toothwort, blue = cohosh, sessile-leaved bellwort, and wild Aralia or sarsaparilla almost = in bloom.</font></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; = margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal = 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div = style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; = margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" style=3D"font: = 12.0px Helvetica">[The next day I checked the <b>BANEBERRY</b> plant = (actually 3 plants there) for the key characteristic for identification = (from New Flora of N.S. by Marian Zinck/Munro), i.e. whether the entire = undersurface of the leaf is hairy vs. hairs just along the veins on the = underside -- and the leaves examined had hairs apparently only on the = veins, thus belong to Actaea alba, a.k.a. <b>WHITE BANEBERRY</b>, just = as the permanent tag/sign indicates (but the inflorescence appears more = like that of red baneberry). Now we'll have to look for the stalks = of the berries and berry colour too if they develop normally = later.]</font></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; = margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal = 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div = style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; = margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" style=3D"font: = 12.0px Helvetica">Other observations in the Botanical Gardens: black = "dead-man's-fingers" fungus (last year's?), "turkey-tail" polypore = fungus, tall fiddleheads of ostrich ferns shown + old fruiting stalks, = other unfurling ferns included lady ferns (both green and red morphs) + = cinnamon fern + royal fern + 1 maidenhair fern, common horsetail (both = spore-producing and green vegetative shoots), pine sp. male cones almost = open, <b>spring peeper</b> treefrogs giving the rising trill-like<b> = "rain call" </b>(under appropriate skies with slight drizzles), = "cheese-burger" song calls of black-capped chickadees, Harold Forsyth = heard a distant singing cardinal (in the direction of where I live on = Wickwire Ave., where I have not heard any for quite a while), song = sparrows singing, etc. </font></div><div style=3D"margin-top:= 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: = normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; = "><br></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; = margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><b><div style=3D"margin-top: = 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font = face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica">Cheers = from Jim in Wolfville</font></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; = margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal = normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div = style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; = margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" style=3D"font: = 12.0px Helvetica">Jim (James W.) Wolford</font></div><div = style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; = margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" style=3D"font: = 12.0px Helvetica">91 Wickwire Ave.</font></div><div style=3D"margin-top: = 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font = face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" style=3D"font: 12.0px = Helvetica">Wolfville, Nova Scotia, Canada</font></div><div = style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; = margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" style=3D"font: = 12.0px Helvetica">B4P 1W3</font></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; = margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal = normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div = style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; = margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" style=3D"font: = 12.0px Helvetica">phone 902-542-9204</font></div><div style=3D"margin-top:= 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font = face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica">e-mail = <<a = href=3D"mailto:jimwolford@eastlink.ca">jimwolford@eastlink.ca</a>></fon= t></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: = 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; = min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; = margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font = face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica">"In = wildness is the preservation of the world" -- Henry David = Thoreau</font></div><div><span class=3D"Apple-style-span" = style=3D"font-weight: normal;"><br></span></div></b></div> </body></html>= --Boundary_(ID_o8iBO51i34x2q4GcUmvVwQ)--
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