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JOURNAL OF 
THE NEW ENGLAND BOTANICAL CLUB 
Vol. 13. No. 151. 
July, 1911. 
CONTRIBUTIONS FROM THE GRAY HERBARIUM OF HARVARD UNIVERSITY. — 
New Series, No. XL. 
A BOTANICAL EXPEDITION TO NEWFOUNDLAND AND 
SOUTHERN LABRADOR.! 
M. L. FERNALD. 
(Plates 86-91). 
Part I. JOURNAL OF THE EXPEDITION. 
IN recent years few lands have figured more prominently in our 
American papers and in our treaty negotiations than Newfoundland, 
the oldest of Great Britain's colonial possessions, the largest island 
in the western hemisphere and, with the exception of Great Britain 
herself, the largest island in Altantic waters. Nevertheless, although 
many other British colonies have had their vascular floras adequately 
worked out in such classic publications as Bentham's Flora Australien- 
sis (7 vols.), Hooker's Flora of British India (7 vols.), Hooker's 
Flora Tasmaniae, and Grisebach's Flora of the British West Indies; 
and the French islands of St. Pierre and Miquelon, immediately 
south of Newfoundland, have their Florule des îles Saint Pierre et 
Miquelon by Bonnet and the Flora Miquelonensis by Delamare, 
Renauld & Cardot; Newfoundland has been left to shift for herself. 
It is true that several collections have been made upon the island — 
by Sir Joseph Banks? and by John Fraser in the second half of the 
18th century; by Bachelot de la Pylaie, Cormack, Miss Brenton and 
! Read at the meeting of the New England Botanical Club, March 3, 1911. 
? See James Britten, Journ. Bot. xlii. 84 (1904). 
