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Hi folks,
	I just returned from a vacation in Nova Scotia.  I wasn't there to see 
irises but managed to see two species, versicolor and hookerii.
	At the convention in Hamilton a couple years ago, I had a conversation 
with Tony Huber about hookerii.  He described its habitat as crevices in 
rock near the ocean, where it subsists mostly on sea spray and fog.  That's 
just the way I found it.  The attached photo shows a few fans growing out 
of a crevice at one of the roadside pull-offs along the Atlantic side of 
the Cabot Trail in Cape Breton Highlands Nat. Park.  The photo is of 
foliage only, bloom was finished by then (about July 25).  The little blue 
flower is a campanula I saw a lot of too.
	There were lots and lots of clumps all over the granite headland, growing 
maybe 30 or 40 feet above the high water line, but clearly within the zone 
where storms must occasionally splash salt water.  Most of the bloom stalks 
I saw showed evidence of two flowers, but stalks with a branch were not 
uncommon.
	I saw versicolor in bloom on July 20, at a place called Martinique Beach a 
little north of Halifax, also on the Atlantic coast.  This beach was very 
foggy and cool; there was a considerable patch of the iris near a picnic 
area a hundred feet or so back from the water's edge.  I did take photos of 
it, but it doesn't seem worth posting them.  All that I saw were very 
typical blue flowers, with a white signal.
	I kept my eyes open for prismatica, but never managed to see any.  The 
only times I've ever seen this in the "wild" were in drainage ditches in Maine.
	Ken


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