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Vol. XIII. OTTAWA, JULY, 1899. No. 4^ 



SOME RECENT ADDITIONS TO THE LABRADOR 



FLORA. 



M L. FtRNALI) AM) J. D. SORNBORGER. 



Two extensive collections, secured during the present 

 decade fronn the Labrador coast and Hamilton Inlet, have added 

 very materially to our knowledge of that still little explored 

 region. The first of these collections, consisting of about three 

 hundred numbers, was made by members of the Bowdoin Col- 

 lege Expedition, which, in 1891, accomplished the difficult ascent 

 of the Hamilton or Grand River and the re-discovery of the 

 mysterious Grand Falls whose location and height were so 

 ong known only through vague reports. ^ Owing to 

 the extreme hardships of the trip it was unfor- 

 tunately impossible to preserve such plants as were collected in 

 the upper valley of the river. A second division of the party, 

 however, collected extensively about Lake Melville and up the 

 coast as far as Hopcdalc. Many of these plants, sent for deter- 

 mination to the Gray Plerbarium by Professor Leslie A. Lee who 

 was in charge of the expedition, are of great geographic interest. 

 Another^ eoUccticn containing rather more species has 

 been secured by Mr. J. D. Scrnborgcr from various 

 stations on the Labrador coast as far north as Cape 

 Chudleigh. Thc^c plants, mostly secured in quantity, were 

 collected largely by Mr Sornborgtr during the summers of 1892 

 and 1897, though many valuable specimens have been sent him 

 by the Rev. Adolf Stecker of the Unitas Fratrum, who has 

 collected plants at a season when Labrador is inaccessible, and 



' For the narrative of this expedition s,ee Packard, T Ik- Lahiador Coast, N. 

 Y.', [891, pp. =07-513. 



