236 / Rhodora [NOVEMBER 
VACCINIUM VACILLANS, var. crinitum, n. var., foliis subtus ramu- 
lisque pilosis.— VERMONT: in dry sand, Rutland, June 15, 1910, 
G. L. Kirk (TYPE, in Gray Herb.). New York: Niagara Falls, Wm. 
Rhoades. ONTARIO: east of Leamington, May 31, 1901, J. Macoun, 
no. 54,230. VirGINIaA: Isle of Wight County, near Franklin, June, 
1893, A. A. Heller, no. 993; near Luray, alt. 3000 ft., August 10, 1901, 
Mr. € Mrs. E. S. Steele, no. 66. TENNESSEE: Lookout Mountain, 
April 19, 1906, J. R. Churchill. Missourt: Rolla, August, 1870, col- 
lector unknown; rocky hills, St. Louis County, May, June, 1879, H. 
Eggert. 
Gray HERBARIUM. 
A COMMENT ON THE USE OF THE TERM LABRADOR IN NATURAL 
Hisrony.— Professor M. L. Fernald in his most valuable paper in 
the July RHODORA says on page 120 that for the sake of “clearness 
of record” he restricts the term “Labrador” to the narrow eastern 
coastal strip belonging to Newfoundland. As the term “Labrador” 
is so often used for the whole Labrador Peninsula — a distinct geo- 
graphical region east and north of a line drawn from the foot of James 
Bay to a point where the 50th parallel strikes the coast — it seems 
to me of the utmost importance for the sake of “clearness of record”’ 
that the term “ Newfoundland Labrador” should be used where the 
eastern coastal strip alone is referred to. “Ungava Labrador” and 
“Canadian Labrador” are also perfectly distinctive terms. The term 
just given for the last named region in the Labrador Peninsula is to 
be preferred to “Saguenay County, Quebec,” for that County ex- 
tends some distance to the south of the boundary of the Labrador 
Peninsula, and Professor Fernald admits that the County is too large 
for the ready localization of a given point. 
It is to be noted that zoologists generally include the whole penin- 
sula when they speak of Labrador. For example in Dr. Grenfell’s 
book on Labrador the lists of mammals, of birds, of mollusks, of 
crustacea and of insects all include the whole peninsula. The map 
of the whole peninsula in this book is labelled in the list of illustrations 
“Map of Labrador,” while the eastern coastal strip is labelled on the 
map itself “ Dependency of Newfoundland." It is to be remembered 
that Audubon’s famous trip to Labrador was entirely outside of 
Newfoundland Labrador, and that the “Lure of the Labrador Wild ” 
that brought poor Hubbard to his death was in the Ungava district. 
