. The Canadian field-naturalist. Natural history. Mer Bleue Bog Conservation Area \ \ ' Thurso *|^ Rockland \ \ \ ^ Larose Forest \ y .^ Casselmar Almonte \ stony Swamp Conservation Area Marlborough Forest \ Prescott % Lanark. "2. CO * and Russell ^m \ # «=f> .>>^ Grenville Kempt^ille Stormont Dundas and Glengarry 76° 30' 75° Map 2. The Ottawa District and surrounding Study Area. The Quebec section of the District is dominated by the two Outaouais regional municipalities, la Communaute urbaine de I'Outaouais and les Collines-de- rOutaouais, while the Ontario part is primarily
. The Canadian field-naturalist. Natural history. Mer Bleue Bog Conservation Area \ \ ' Thurso *|^ Rockland \ \ \ ^ Larose Forest \ y .^ Casselmar Almonte \ stony Swamp Conservation Area Marlborough Forest \ Prescott % Lanark. "2. CO * and Russell ^m \ # «=f> .>>^ Grenville Kempt^ille Stormont Dundas and Glengarry 76° 30' 75° Map 2. The Ottawa District and surrounding Study Area. The Quebec section of the District is dominated by the two Outaouais regional municipalities, la Communaute urbaine de I'Outaouais and les Collines-de- rOutaouais, while the Ontario part is primarily in the Regional Municipality of Ottawa-Carleton. About a million people live in the District, three-quarters of them in Ontario. collected at Ottawa by her husband William White, later the first president of The Ottawa Field- Naturalists' Club (Dore 1965*). Subsequently, she painted Galearis spectabilis in 1869, Cypripedium parviflorum in 1870 and Goodyera repens in 1877, as well as plants in other families. These paintings were based on local collections that apparently were not preserved. The first orchid collections to survive were not made until two generations after the first settlements *An asterisk (*) after a date indicates unpublished item, listed sepa- rately in Documents Cited section between Acknowledgments and Literature Cited. around 1800. Several orchids — Calopogon tubero- sus, Liparis loeselii, Platanthera dilatata and Pogonia ophioglossoides — were collected by Braddish Billings Jr. from Dow's Swamp near the Billings home in 1860 (specimens at Queen's University (QK)). In 1861, John Kerr McMorine (Ross 1984) began what was to become a large plant collection that by 1867 included 13 orchids from Ramsay, near Almonte, Ontario (QK and DAO; see Appendix 1). In that year, Braddish Billings Jr. (1867) published, in the Transactions of the Ottawa Natural History Society, a list of some 400 plants that he had collected in 1866 and 1867. This impres- sive list,
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