110 Rhodora Juny 
others early in the 19th century; by Dr. John Bell, Dr. Robert Bell, 
Henry Reeks, Professor Roland Thaxter, J. D. Sornborger, and 
numerous others !; but upon some of these collections no publica- 
tions have been based, while others have been the bases for compara- 
tively brief lists. La Pylaie undertook the preparation of an 
elaborate Flore de Terre-Neuve et des Iles Saint-Pierre et Miclon with 
illustrations drawn from living plants, but only our section, devoted 
to Algae, was issued.2 In 1825, however, he published a little book, 
Voyage à Vile de Terre-Neuve, giving a journal of his explorations 
and many notes on the vascular plants and their distribution, pub- 
lishing several new but undefined names, and recording numerous 
species of more than usual interest: Schizaea pusilla (S. filifolia 
La Pylaie) “dans certaines parties de ces bas-fonds. .. .qu'on nomme 
Swamps dans l'Amérique septentrionale”; Salix reticulata on the 
barrens by Ingornachoix Bay; ‘‘l’ Alchemilla officinalis, dans le partie 
inférieure des coteaux” of Quirpon Island; and many others which 
may be discussed at another time. William E. Cormack published 
an account of his journey made in 1822 across the island from Trinity 
Bay to Bay St. George and made notes upon some of the plants seen. 
His account, reprinted in 1873, is rare even in its reprinted form and 
the plants enumerated, often under unintelligible names, are chiefly 
the commoner species. Reeks published a somewhat pretentious 
list of the vascular plants * based upon his observations on the west 
coast, and proposed three new species which were overlooked by the 
editors of Index Kewensis — a Viola of the blanda group, a Euphrasia 
which was collected in quantity last summer at the type locality and 
which is uncomfortably near our New England E. Randi, and an 
Iris which is clearly I. setosa, var. canadensis. Reeks’s collections, 
so far as known, were not preserved and his list contains many entries 
extremely doubtful until the past summer and others which are 
obvious errors of determination. Dr. John Bell published a very 
readable account 5 of his trip made in June and July, 1867, and noted 
some of the commonest plants, with a few which are certainly rare or 
1 For further notes see Robinson € Schrenk, Can. Rec. Sci. vii. 4, 5 (1896). 
2 Paris, 1829. 
¿W. E. Cormack: Narrative of a Journey across the Island of Newfoundland. 
Reprinted by Moses Harvey (St. John’s, 1873). 
4Henry Reeks: A List of the Flowering Plants & Ferns of Newfoundland with 
Metereological Observations (Newbury, England, 1873). 
5 John Bell: The Plants of the West Coast of Newfoundland. Can. Nat. ser. 2, 
iv. 256-263 (1869); v. 54-61 (1870). 
