. The Canadian field-naturalist. Natural history. New Plant Records for Prince Edward Island Kate MacQuarrie^ and Heidi Schaefer^ ^Executive Director, Island Nature Trust, Box 265, Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island CIA 7K4 Canada 2153 Spring Street, Summerside, Prince Edward Island CIN 3G2 Canada MacQuarrie, Kate, and Heidi Schaefer. 2001. New plant records for Prince Edward Island. Canadian Field-Naturalist 115(3): 446^50. The first records of Apios americana (Groundnut), Polystichum braunii (Braun's Holly Fern), Hieracium piloselloides (King Devil) and Impatiens glandulifera (Glandula
. The Canadian field-naturalist. Natural history. New Plant Records for Prince Edward Island Kate MacQuarrie^ and Heidi Schaefer^ ^Executive Director, Island Nature Trust, Box 265, Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island CIA 7K4 Canada 2153 Spring Street, Summerside, Prince Edward Island CIN 3G2 Canada MacQuarrie, Kate, and Heidi Schaefer. 2001. New plant records for Prince Edward Island. Canadian Field-Naturalist 115(3): 446^50. The first records of Apios americana (Groundnut), Polystichum braunii (Braun's Holly Fern), Hieracium piloselloides (King Devil) and Impatiens glandulifera (Glandular Touch-me-not) from Prince Edward Island are reported. Large num- bers of A. americana were found in two populations on the Lennox Island Mi'Kmaq reserve, Malpeque Bay, Prince County while P. braunii was restricted to a few individuals along the bank of the Mill River, Bloomfield, Prince County. H. piloselloides was first identified in retired farmland at Greenwich, Kings County, and /. glandulifera was found along the Barbara Weit River at New Annan, Prince County. Key Words: Apios americana. Groundnut, Polystichum braunii, Braun's Holly Fern, Hieracium piloselloides. King Devil, Impatiens glandulifera. Glandular Touch-me-not, Prince Edward Island, new records. As Canada's smallest and most densely populated province, Prince Edward Island has few unexplored or undisturbed habitats. Since the arrival of European settlers in the early 1700s, land clearing for agricul- ture, shipbuilding, and habitation has consumed much of the Island's original Acadian forest. It is estimated that by 1900, over 70% of the land had been cleared ( Department of Agriculture and Forestry 1997) and much of the remnant forest had been previously burned or harvested in varying degrees. Today, roughly 50% of the province is wooded, but less than one fifth of this resembles the original Acadian upland forest of Fagus grandifolia (American Beech), Betula alleghaniensis (Yellow Birch), Acer saccharu
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