216 Rhodora [OCTOBER 
land] are... . Trillium recurvatum,....Goodyera (Peramium) pubes- 
cens, Smilacina (Vagnera) stellata, .. . . Secondary woody species:.... 
Viburnum lentago, V. acerifolium.” 
“In drier woods Mitchella repens, Epigaea repens occur. The 
edge of the forest along rocky hills is fringed with Juniperus vir- 
giniana var. humilis.” 
[These plants would indeed be remarkable in such habitats in Newfoundland. 
Trillium recurvatum is unknown east of Ohio and Tennessee (see Britton, 
Man.; Small, Flora; Gray’s Man. ed. 7). Goodyera pubescens is unknown 
east of central Maine (see Rropona, i. 5), the Newfoundland plant formerly 
. reported under that name being G. tesselata. Smilacina stellata in Newfound- 
land, as in Labrador and eastern Canada, is a species of the sea-strand or of 
other gravelly or sandy shores or of light alluvium in intervales; Viburnum 
Lentago and V. acerifolium are unknown from east of western New Brunswick 
(see Macoun, Cat. Can. Pl.; Sargent, Silva; Britton, Man.; Hough, Handb. 
of Trees; ete.). Professor Harshberger has doubtless confused them (as did 
Dr. John Bell who reported them from Newfoundland before him) with the 
common V. cassinoides and V. pauciflorum. Mitchella repens, too, is appar- 
ently unknown from Newfoundland (see Macoun, Cat.; Britton, Man.; etc.). 
though it was once reported by a careless writer who did not realize that 
Mitchella is really quite different from the “Partridge Berry” of Newfoundland. 
In both Newfoundland and Labrador ‘Partridge Berry” is Vaccinium Vitis- 
Idaea, var. minus (see Waghorne, Proc. & Trans. N.S. Inst. Sci. ix. 383; etc.). 
In Newfoundland as in eastern Quebec Epigaea repens is a plant of the bogs 
and wet woods — not the “drier woods" (see RHopona, xiii. 97); and no 
form of Juniperus virginiana is known from east of the Kennebec valley in 
Maine. The author may have had in mind the common J. horizontalis, 
which he speaks of in other parts of his book, sometimes as J. Sabina, some- 
times as J. Sabina, var. procumbens, apparently unaware that so far as North 
America is concerned these names (used at different times and by various 
authors) all apply to one and the same shrub.] 
[p. 354] “Sea Cliff Formation. The sea coast of Newfoundland 
presents an irregular line of cliffs, beaches and headlands on which 
are Alnus viridis (= A. alnobetula), Viburnum pauciflorum, Cornus 
stolonifera, Ribes prostratum, Empetrum nigrum, various species of 
Rubus and Vaccinium.” 
[The “Alnus viridis" of Newfoundland is A. mollis Fernald (see RHoDORA, 
vi. 162; Britton. Man. ed. 2, 1062; Gray, Man. ed. 7). Neither this nor 
Viburnum pauciflorum, Cornus stolonifera, any Rubus or Vaccinium are, in 
western Newfoundland (the only section personally familiar to the reviewer) 
characteristic of sea cliffs. A very slight experience there is sufficient to show 
that there are plants really growing in the crevices of sea cliffs: such as Puc- 
cinellia spp., Cerastium spp., Draba spp., Cochlearia officinalis, Sedum roseum, 
Saxifraga caespitosa, Oxytropis campestris, var. caerulea, Ligusticum scothicum, 
Statice (Armeria) sp., Primula farinosa, var. macropoda, and Plantago deci- 
piens.] 
