TABLE 1-5. The occurrence of names referring to beech, birch and oak species in lists made by all those recorders who aimed to provide a list (even if incomplete) of the trees occurring on Prince Edward Island (see the footnote for the names of the recorders). Most of the lists were intended to apply to the

whole island (though most recorders would have known only a part of the island).

RECORDERS TREE NAMES

‘Beech’ ’White beech’ t

’Red beech’ i

'Birch' I...Ulla-III.-IDIIIDDIIIIIDII-IDII 'Birches' III-IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIDDIIIIIIIIII

’Birch of different kinds’ ’Yellow birch’

’Black birch’ J)

’White birch'

‘Canoe birch’

’Grey birch’ ’Poplar-leaved birch'

_L m (0

’Poplar birch’

’Alder birch'

’Which [i.e. wych] hazel’ ’Oak’

’Red oak’

'White oak' IIUIIIIIIIIIIIII-IUIIIIII-IIII-IIIIII

Key to recorders: 1 - Holland (1764); 2 - Holland (1765: March); 3 - Holland (1765: October); 4 - Morris (1769); 5 — Patterson (1770); 6 - Patterson (1774); 7 - Curtis (1775); 8 - [Clark] (1779); 9 - lnglis (1789); 10 - [Cambridge ](1796?); 11 — Walsh (1803); 12 - Selkirk (1803); 13 - [MacDonald] (1804); 14 - Selkirk (1805); 15 - Stewart (1806); 16 — Anon. (1808); 17 — [Hill] (1819); 18 — Johnstone (1822); 19 - MacGregor (1828); 20 - Bouchette (1832); 21 - Martin (1837); 22 - Murray (1839); 23 — Hill (1839); 24 - Gesner (1846); 25 — Monro (1855); 26 - Sutherland (1861); 27 - Bagster (1861); 28 - Anon. (1877); 29 — [Bain] (1882); 30 - Bain (1890); 31 - McSwain & Bain (1891 ); 32 Macoun (1894); 33 - Pollard (1898); 34 - Johnston (1895); 35 - Burke (1902); 36 - Crosskill (1904); 37 - [Watson?] (post 1904).

i In a non-list context, Perley (1847) states that what he called ’red beech' occurred on the island, and he implies the presence of what he called ’white beech’.

m The name ’black birch’ is also used in a non-list context by Chappell (1775-1818), MacDonald (1784), Gray (1793), Stewart (1831), Lawson (1851 ), and in evidence to the Land Commission (1875); and ’yellow birch’ is used by Chappell (1775-1818).

T See footnote 419 of the main text for the view that Curtis’s (1775) ’which hazle’ is yellow birch, Betu/a a/leghaniensis.

1[ The part of the list of [Watson?] (post 1904) that contained beech and the birches is missing.

McSwain & Bain (1891) give Latin names only: Quercus rubra, Betu/a exce/sa or lutea, B. papyracea, B. a/ba var. popu/I'fo/ia. These have been placed in the rows for the standard common names.