bellied Sapsucker nest high in a hole in an old tree, with young inside 
     
     buzzing away, and sometimes a head peeking out. Later, a ride along the 
     
     headland to see a White Bog Orchid was an unexpected bonus. 
     
    

    
     At lunchtime, Gerald, Arlene and Paul went to Gerald's home while 
     
     Joyce and I went to St. Margaret's for a picnic lunch and to see how the 
     
     mystery plants were getting along. Immature red drupes were forming. I 
     
     sent that extra bit of information in a letter to Dr. Catling along with 
     
     the pressed plant in the care of a niece who was motoring back to Ottawa 
     
     at just the right time and would deliver the package personally. 
     
    

    
     Dr. Catling's reply came Aug. 3rd stating that "the plant is one 
     
     that can be difficult to identify. It is sometimes called "Star Toadflax". 
     
     The correct scientific name is "Comandra umbella" (L.) Nutt. It is in— 
     
     cluded in the "Plants of Prince Edward Island" as "Comandra richardsiana" 
     
     on page 134, map 337. It is known from at least four locations on the 
     
     north shore in open sandy ground, often with bayberry and blueberry, and 
     
     it is probably more widespread". 
     
    

    
     Having learned the name, I found it listed in several plant books 
     
     at the library. It belongs to the Sandalwood family (Santalaceae). It has 
     
     no corolla. The calyx is usually 5-lobed, but sometimes 4-lobed even in 
     
     the same cluster. the plants are often parasitic upon the roots of other 
     
     plants. ' 
     
    

    
     August 16 found us headed east again, via 
     
     St. Charles and Selkirk to St. Margaret's and 
     
     Comandra Park, what else? At this time the Co- 
     
     mandra drupes were blue and the size of small 
     
     blueberries. Peaches, plums and cherries are 
     
     drupes. Comandra drupes are "just skin and 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
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     Lunch over, we had a new objective — Foun- figuw4§tai 
     
    
   
   
    
     tain Head" — the big spring that is the main 
     
     source of North Lake Creek. With an old topo— 
     
     graphical map that showed wherre Fountain Head 
     
     Station used to be, down the Souris Line Road 
     
     we went past Harmony Junction, then turned east 
     
     and went along to the second road parallel to 
     
     the Souris Line Road. Turning north we drove 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     less than a quarter mile to the railroad but The GreendwaFer Pellu- 
     
     missed the spring because it is on the east tlon.Pr1@er 15 a neW 
     
     side of the road. returning, I spotted the PUbllCetlon bY Fhe COH- 
     
     spring easily - a strong flow surging up in the Servatlon eounCII 0? 
     
     middle of a deep pool, even after so much dry New Brun§W1CK and gives 
     
     weather. A lively brook rushed out at the far an 0V9rV1eW 0f the_ 
     
     Side, on its way to Baltic and North Lake. It groundwaFer 9011Ut10n 
     
     looked like enough water to supply a small PFOb}em 1n Canaea- One 
     
     town. Someone has placed a strong log across mllllon People 1“ the 
     
    
   
   
    
     the near side of the pool and has nailed planks Maritimes alone relY on 
     
     to it from the shore. A stake in the pool holds groundwater for thelr 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     a container for dipping from where the spring supply 0f freSh waterr 
     
     bubbles up. The Fountain Head road used to end and eontamleants are 
     
     at the railroad, but now it continues north- t?rn199 up 19 wells 
     
     ward. Wlth increa51ng regu- 
     
     Road maps do not show them all now, but larltY° Avallable for 
     
     the stations on the Elmira branch were, from $5'OO plus $1-00 for 
     
     Harmony Junction: Connaught, Fountain Head, P°Sta9? from th? con- 
     
     Baltic, Munn's Road and Elmira. servatlon Counelli 1§0 
     
     Thus endeth this potpourri of geography, St' J°hn St'I Frederlc‘ 
     
     history and nature. ton, N-B. E3B 4A9.