established the plots as part of the 1990 forest inventory. Botanists collected ground plant data from these a 2 square

metre subset of these plots.

The interpretation of this kind of data involves fairly complicated statistics and this data remained un- interpreted until chance brought Dr. Doug Sobey into the Forestry Division to discuss potential botanical projects on the Island. He became quite enthused about the plant data set as it also included a great deal of information on the surrounding trees and soils which the Forestry Division was willing to share in addition to assisting with certain

COStS.

One of the many products that came out of his analysis of this data was a plant (floristic) inventory titled Analysis of the Ground Flora and Other Data Collected during the 1991 RE]. Forest Inventory. The following list was compiled from that report by the Island Nature Trust as part of an effort to identify sites where these rare or uncommon plants can be found. Ifyou know of locations where they can be found, please drop a note and a description of how to find the site (a map would also be useful) where they are located. This information will be important in better defining where these plants occur.

Common Name

Ground cedar Ground Cedar Club-moss

Grape fem Lance-leaved grape fern Rattlesnake fem Interrupted fern Royal fern

Ostrich fern Christmas fern Silvery spleenwort New York fem

Rock polypody Woodmsh

Green twisted-stalk Nodding trillium Yellow lady's slipper Showy lady’s slipper White bog-orchid Fringed orchid Fringed orchid Fringed orchid Purple fringed orchid ' Creeping rattlesnake plantain Rattlesnake plantain Twayblade Twayblade

Early coral root Spotted coral-root Toothwort

Wild red currant Witch hazel

Species

Lycopodium flabelliforme Lycopodium tistachyum Lycopodium complanatum Botrychium matrican'aefolium Botrychium lanceolatum Botrychium virginianum Osmunda claytoniana Osmunda regalis

Pteretis pensylvam'ca Polystichum acrostichoides Athyrium thelypteroides ' Dryopteris noveboracensis Polypodium virginianum Luzula acuminata Streptopus amplexifolius Trillium cemum Cypripedium calceolus Cypripedium reginae Habenaria dilitata Habenaria orbiculata Habenaria hookeri Habenaria obtusata Habenaria psycodes Goodyera repens Goodyera tesselata

Listera cordata

Listera convallarioides Corallorhiza trififa Corallorhiza maculata Dentaria diphylla

Ribes triste

Hamamelis virginiana

Showy Lady‘s Slipper

Habitat Types (see p. 3)

MW ULMW ULHW RHW RSL RHW BO

WFP RDFP RMSL RMSLFP D

MHW MW/HW MHWSL THWFP RW

B0

B0 SW/HW SW\MW MSW MBO

SW MSWSL RTHWSL SW

RMWFP RSL