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On 11/27/2017 5:35 PM, David wrote:
> You echo my suspicions Paul but in the absence of proof I am
> inclined to let some pollen analyst date the establishment time. It
> could also have arrived there without human help in common with most
> things. And arrived much before European contact. Without doubt they
> would have needed thatch. Perhaps someone can say if the taxonomic
> details of that patch are consistent with European origin.
* yes, experts have looked at specimens - this one of ours was
identified by Paul Catling as the European kind: 12 September 2010 -
Nova Scotia: Highway 1, 1.4 km WNW Highway 8/201, Annapolis Royal. (25m
waypoint), 21A/12, 44.73987N 65.51688W TIME: 1726. AIR TEMP: 15°C,
sunny, cloudy, breezy. HABITAT: Reed stand along abandoned rail line &
small tidal river. OBSERVER: Frederick W. Schueler, Aleta Karstad
Schueler. DAO855932, 2010/286/a, Phragmites australis
SUBSPECIES:australis (European Reed) (Plant). 1/dominant herb, in bloom,
anthesis, specimen. WAYPT/083, dense big-headed stand, shedding pollen.
Collected stem 354 cm, including 34 cm head - this is the west end of a
dense fairly tall stand, growing up, at the western extremety here,
through shiny-leaved fruiting Rhamnus frangula. Lower glume 3.2 mm, stem
colour brown (scored by DAO).
fred.
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Fragile Inheritance Natural History
Mudpuppy Night in Oxford Mills - http://pinicola.ca/mudpup1.htm
'Daily' Paintings - http://karstaddailypaintings.blogspot.com/
4 St-Lawrence Street Bishops Mills, RR#2 Oxford Station, Ontario K0G 1T0
on the Smiths Falls Limestone Plain 44* 52'N 75* 42'W
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