NEWSLETTER No. 26 November, 1977 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     OUR APOLOGIES 
     
    
   
   
    
     Due to unreasonable demands on our time, we were unable to produce and 
     
     distribute a newsletter before the November meeting. A December news- 
     
     letter will be produced on schedule. 
     
    
   
   
    
     The Editors 
     
     » Kathy Martin 
     
     Rosemary Curley 
     
    
   
   
    
     NEXT MEETINgg 
     
    
   
   
    
     Time: 8:00 p.m. g 
     
    

    
     Place: Provincial Health Building, 3rd Floor, Room 47 
     
    

    
     Program: Tuesday, December 6, 1977*- Frank Huston of the P.E.I. 
     
     Department of Agriculture and Forestry wig} speak on 
     
     "Beautiful, Edible, and Noxious Weeds".~ ? 
     
    
   
   
    
     MEMBERSHIP COUNT TO DATE FOR 1977 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     Family Membership 9 @ $4.00 
     
    
   
   
    
     Regular Membership 80 @ $3.00 
     
     Student Membership 12 @ $1.00 
     
    
   
   
    
     PAID IN ADVANCE FOR 1978 
     
    
   
   
    
     Family Membership 3 @ $4.00 
     
     Regular Membership 6 @ $3.00 
     
     Student Membership 1 @ $1.00 
     
    
   
   
    
     If mailing membership dues, please make cheques payable to the 
     
     Natural History Society of P.E.I., c/o Miss Margaret Mallett, 
     
    

    
     53 Fitzroy Street, Charlottetown, P.E.I. CIA 1R4. Please include 
     
     your mailing address, phone number and postal code. 
     
    
   
   
    
     ANNOUNCEMENTS 
     
    
   
   
    
     CHRISTMAS BIRD COUNT: Yes, that time is rolling around. The count 
     
     period will probably be from Dec. 17 through Jan. lst. We hope the 
     
     former birders will be back on the job along with some new ones. 
     
    
   
   
    
     STRAWBERRIES RIPENING IN UPPER MONTAGUE. John Wright reported that 
     
     he has some strawberries in his garden. They are on plants set out 
     
     last spring. The blossoms were kept picked off during the summer, 
     
    
   
   
    
     but some that were missed are producing ripe fruit now in late 
     
     October. 
     
    
   
   
    
     BONSHAW HILLS TRAIL GETS PARTIAL CLEAN-UP. On Sunday afternoon, Oct.9, 
     
    

    
     a crew of three NHS members and Bob Perry went from Appin Road to Bolger 
     
     Road and tidied it up considerably. A problem of rerouting has cropped 
     
     up at Appin Road where a new house on one side of Appin Road and a mobile 
     
     home on the other side are set precisely on the trail. 
     
    
   
   
    
     ERRATA. In our October newsletter (No. 25) we erroneously reported in 
     
     'Finding the Parasitic Dodder" that Common Dodder (Cuscuta qronovii) was 
     
     not included in any of the plant species lists prepared for P.E.I. 
     
    

    
     In fact, David Erskine (1960) reports it in The Plants of Prince Edward 
     
     Island as occurring at Plat River near Summerside and in Pleasant View- 
     
     on the west coast of the Island. Our thanks are extended to Bruce 
     
     MacLaren who brought this error to our attention.