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Brown: TWO WEEKS AND 39 ORCHIDS IN WESTERN NEWFOUNDLAND http://www.nfcap.nf.ca/west/PlumPoint/Motel.htm Baie Verte/Tilt Cove http://www.centralnewfoundland.com/bview17.php3 Baie Vista Inn P.O. Box 84 Baie Verte Newfoundland, Canada A0K 1B0 Phone: 709-532-8250 Toll Free: 1-877-532-8250 Fax: 709-532-8033 Email: baie.vista@nf.sympatico.ca IF YOU GO: Although it is summer the weather in July is highly variable from very warm along the southwest coast to cold and possibly sleet/light snow showers at Cape Norman and it is often very windy. You need to bring layered clothing and a waterproof jacket or poncho. At Plum Point Motel there are laundry facilities as well as a general store nearby. Be sure to fuel up your vehicle each evening as the gas stations tend not to open early in the mornings (we have had to wait as late at 10AM to get gas some mornings!). It is best to pack a lunch, or have the restaurant do it, as local restaurants are not easy to find and never seem to be where you are. The Ocean View Motel in Rocky Harbour and Plum Point Motel both have superior dining facilities. The little store in Raleigh (Burnt Cape) has wonderful home made-pies for take out. Don't miss them. Two very good eating places along the road are the Pasadena Family Restaurant in Pasadena just north of Corner Brook (Pasadena is also an alternative to Corner Brook for accommodations) and Maynard Motor Inn, PO Box 59, Hawkes Bay, Newfoundland (709) 248-5225. They also have excellent accommodations and are about 1 hour south of Plum Point. 22
Pelchat: SPIRANTHES PARKSII CORRELL – NAVASOTA LADIES’-TRESSES SPIRANTHES PARKSII CORRELL – NAVASOTA LADIES’-TRESSES Reprinted in a slightly different format from North American Native Orchid Journal 6(4): 268-279. 2000 Cliff Pelchat Spiranthes parksii, the Navasota ladies’-tresses, is the only endemic orchid that Texas can claim and it has had an elusive history since its discovery in 1945, and was first described by Donovan Stewart Correll, (Correll 1947). In his 1950 book, Native Orchids of North America North of Mexico, Correll states that it was discovered in Texas in 1945 and that it had no close allies in North American orchid flora; "This species has no close allies in our flora. Its affinity seems to be with several Mexican and Central American species. It apparently occurs in moist habitat, and blooms in October." (Correll 1950) The specimens Correll used to describe the Navasota ladies’-tresses were collected by Haliburton Braley Parks along the Navasota River (Democratic Bridge) in Brazos County, (Correll 1947). For the next 30 years H. B. Parks was the only person to have seen a live specimen of this plant. Many of the herbarium specimens deposited by H. B. Parks contain short non-specific descriptions for location (such as “Democratic Bridge”), which certainly contributed to the difficulty of locating existing populations of S. parksii. Carlyle Luer along with Correll searched for the plants on 2 different occasions without finding them leading him to speculate on their origin; "The writer has thoroughly searched the type locality, along the Navasota River in eastern Texas, in two different years, once with Dr. Correll, but without success. Within a radius of a few miles, three familiar species of Spiranthes were discovered in flower: S. cernua, S. ovalis, and the robust Texan S. lacera var. gracilis . . .It is considered unlikely that a southern relict might survive in the western part of the Coastal Plain and the Eastern Woodland where no other localized endemic species of orchid is 23
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