1899] Fernald-Sornborger — Labrador Flora. gi 



The list of [ 'ants enumerated by Mr. J. M. Macoun from the 

 coast of Labrador was based, according to his introductory note, 

 primarily upon the former list prepared by Professor John 

 Macoun for Packard's Labrador coast. At the time of the 

 preparation of that list, however, much was considered as 

 Labrador which the recent survey includes in Quebec ; and 

 many reports, in Packard's work, of plants from " Labrador," 

 were apparently based upon specimens from Caribou Island and 

 other points now included in Quebec. Other reports of species 

 have been based upon Mr. John A. Allen's and some smaller 

 collections from Bonne Esp^rance, Eskimo Island and other 

 stations west of the present Labrador line. Scattered reports, 

 based upon the collections of Lieut. L. M. Turner on Ungava 

 Bay, have been made of plants as Labrador species, but these, 

 of course, cannot be accepted for Labrador proper. A few 

 species, on the other hand, included in Packard, appear to be 

 reported only indefinitely from Labrador, ic. without definite 

 statement of localities. All such plants as are contained in the 

 Bowdoin and the Sornborger collections and have been recorded 

 only in a general way from Labrador, or collected at stations 

 beyond the recently defined limits of that dependency are here 

 indicated by the -f* before the name. 



The plants enumerated below are of interest not merely as 

 additions to the Labrador flora or as species little known from 

 that peninsula ; but many of them are of much broader geo- 

 graphic interest. Ten of them — Phcgopteris polypodioidcs. Iris 

 versicolor, Sagijia procunibens, Nasturtium tcrrestre, Rihes 

 lacustre, Pyj-us arbutifolia, var melanocarpa, Viola Sclkirkii, 

 Galium tinctorium, var. labradoricum. Aster longifolius, var. 



villicaulis, and Aster puniceus, var. are here recorded 



from stations considerably north of their former known limits on 

 our eastern coast. 



Some of them, however, Phcgopteris polypodioides, Sagina 

 procumbens, Nasturtium terrestre, and Viola Sclkirkii, for ex- 

 ample, are well known even from Arctic sections of Europe, 

 Asia or Western America. On the other hand, six species arc 



