282 Rhodora [DECEMBER 
Hampshire,” and was in the herbarium of Sir Joseph Banks. During 
the past summer, therefore, the writer was interested to examine the 
material of Dryas in the Banksian Herbarium at the British Museum 
of Natural History. No material from Peck was found, and the 
only sheet clearly belonging in the original Banksian Herbarium was 
marked Dryas tenella, Pursh. This sheet contains three specimens, 
with the data indicated on the back of the sheet, two of the speci- 
mens collected before the publication of Pursh’s species, the other a - 
comparatively modern one from Labrador. ‘The two older collections 
are from “1, Newfoundland, Inglie Island in the mouth of the har- 
bour J. B[anks],"! and “2. Labrador, D. Nelson 1781." 
Although there is the barest possibility that a Peck specimen may 
have once existed and is now lost, the fact that for nearly a century 
so conspicuous a plant as Dryas integrifolia has been sought in vain 
by the botanical explorers who have scoured the “White Hills” of 
New Hampshire, has long since thrown doubt upon the accuracy of 
Pursh’s original data. Furthermore, since Pursh cited a specimen in 
the Banksian Herbarium and since there is in that Herbarium a 
plant which well agrees with the description of D. tenella and is so 
labeled, it seems still more probable that Pursh was in error in 
citing the plant from New Hampshire. As a result of examination 
of the data now at hand the following suggestion is offered as pos- 
sibly explaining the source of error. 
A detailed study of the charts of the United States Hydrographic 
Survey shows only one island on the Newfoundland coast which 
could have been intended by Banks as “Inglie” Island. This is 
Englée or Grévigneux,? a steeply scarped island hardly a mile in 
length, with its nine naked summits nearly hiding the entrance to 
Bide Arm, the northernmost fjord of Canada Bay. Directly west 
from Grévigneux (Englée) there rise from the shore of Canada Bay 
the Cloud Hills, 1195 feet high, an eastern lobe of the Long Range, 
which forms the backbone of western and northern Newfoundland 
and northward is generally referred to indefinitely as the White 
Hills; though in its most restricted sense the name White Hills is 
confined to the northernmost extension of the Long Range about 
Hare Bay, twenty-five miles north of Grévigneux (Englée) Island. 
1 Collected during the “voyage to Newfoundland and Labrador commencing 
April ye 7th and ending November ye 17th, 1766." 
? See U. S. Hydrographic Survey Chart no. 794. 
