120 Rhodora [JULY 
ary. In earlier days the name Labrador was used in a general way for 
the entire peninsula north of the lower St. Lawrence and the Gulf, 
but in 1876 the jurisdiction of the Government of Newfoundland was 
defined as that portion of the Labrador Peninsula lying east of a 
line drawn directly north from Blanc Sablon to 52° N. latitude, 
thence along the height of land to a point on the mainland-shore 
nearly south of Port Burwell, Cape Chudleigh. West of this boundary 
the region is Canadian, the southern tract being Saguenay County, 
Quebec, the northern Ungava. Many of the older collections made 
on the Labrador Peninsula prior to this delimitation, and a few more 
recent ones, from west of Blanc Sablon River are designated as com- 
ing from “Labrador” and upon such specimens many so-called Lab- 
rador records have been made and new species based — for example, 
Calamagrostris labradorica Kearney, the type from Bonne Espérance, 
Saguenay County, Quebec, and Galium labradoricum, deriving its 
name from an old specimen presumably from the North Shore of 
the River or Gulf of St. Lawrence. If we wish our geographic 
citations to be as generally intelligible as possible it seems wisest to 
refer to the regions in the Canadian portion of the Peninsula by the 
most definite designations available (Saguenay County, etc.) and to 
reserve the name Labrador in its restricted sense (as opposed to the 
more general Labrador Peninsula), as is done in most if not all up- 
to-date atlases, for the outer coastal strip of the Peninsula.! In these 
1 I have been criticized by at least one student of Natural History for accepting 
the political boundary and restricting the use of the term Labrador to the Newfound- 
land dependency, labeling specimens from west of the Blane Sablon River as from 
Saguenay County, Quebec. In so doing, however, I simply aim at clearness of record. 
No one whose daily work brings him the constant annoyance of trying to settle beyond 
doubt whether many old specimens, often the type-specimens themselves, labeled 
"Oregon," *“*Missouri,”” or “Northwest Territory,” really come from Washington, 
Oregon, Idaho, or western Montana; eastern Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, or some 
region between the Rocky Mountain states and the Mississippi River; or, in case of 
Northwest Territory, from one of the Canadian provinces of Manitoba, Assiniboia, 
Saskatchewan, etc., or even one of our Great Lake states — no one whose daily work 
is interrupted by the necessity of tracing out the sources of old and obscurely labeled 
specimens can fail to grasp at every restricted use of a geographic name which makes 
for simplicity and clearness in citation. In fact, for those who wish to cite exact 
localities it would be a great advantage if the Labrador Peninsula were sub- 
divided into many more clearly defined districts, for the divisions, Newfoundland 
Labrador, Ungava, and Saguenay County, Quebec, are all too large for the ready 
localization of a given point. Thus if we have a plant or other specimen from ‘‘Es- 
quimaux Island, Labrador" we are entirely in doubt, unless there is a record of the 
collector's travels (which most busy people should not be required to look up) whether 
the specimen came from one of the Mingan Islands (north of Anticosti) in Saguenay 
County, Quebec, from the famous island at the mouth of Esquimaux River, near the 
Straits of Belle Isle (also in Saguenay County), from the island in Hamilton Inlet, 
or from one of the other islands along the coast of the Atlantic, Ungava Bay, or Hud- 
son Bay which were formerly the rendezvous of this now almost extinct race. 
