1864.] MISCELLANEOUS. 459 



Calluna Vulgaris in Newfoundland. — Mr. Murray, 

 late of the Geological Survey of Canada, and now engaged in a 

 survey of Newfoundland, has brought to Montreal specimens 

 of this plant, which were collected by Judge Robinson on the 

 east coist of Newfoundland, near Ferryland (lat. 47°, long. 

 52° 50'), and which are stated to be from a small patch of the 

 plant not more than three yards square. The locality is in the 

 same part of the island to which the specimens collected by a 

 Mr. Cormack (or MacCormack), and formerly in the collection of the 

 Linnnean Society, are referred, (American Journal of Science, vol. 

 xxxxviii, p. 122,) namely the south-east peninsula; and two 

 additional localities in this paiiinsula are noticed in Cormack's 

 label, namely, the head of St. Mary's Bay and Trepassy Bay 

 or Harbor. It is supposed that the Cormack who collected 

 these specimens is the well-known explorer of the interior of New- 

 foundland; but we do not find any notice of the plant in his 

 published narrative, although it contains many botanical notes. 



De la Pylaie was no doubt the first to collect the plant in New- 

 foundland, since, though it is not in his herbarium. Prof. Brunet 

 informs us that it is mentioned in his MS. notes. 



We now have certain knowledge of localities of heather in 

 Massachusetts, in Cape Breton (see ante, page 378). and in New- 

 foundland, to which may be added Giesecke's testimony that it 

 occurs in Greenland. 



The Gold of Nova Scotia of Pre-C^Rb oniferous Age. 

 — At Corbilt's Mills, about four miles north of Gay's Biver, Col- 

 chester County, Nova Scotia, auriferous clay-slates of the same 

 character as those of the other Gold districts of the Province, are 

 overlaid unconformably by nearly horizontal beds of grey and red 

 conglomerate, grit, and sandstone, of Lower Carboniferous, pro- 

 bably Lower-Coal-measures age. At the mills these last are only 

 a few feet in thickness. They, in turn, are overlaid by a mass of 

 drift, and by beds of stratified sand and clay of variable thickness. 



The little brook supplying the water-power to the mills, has 

 cut through the Post-tertiary and Carboniferous beds, and in some 

 places has worn for itself a channel in the slates, so that in the 

 numerous excavations on its banks very good sections are exposed. 



As to the Carboniferous age of the conglomerate and sandstones 

 there can be no doubt. They cannot be Silurian, for they overlie 



