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TV. Maritime Type. 



Dr. Gray, in tlie American Journal of Sciences, has enumerated 

 sixty species of maritime plants inhabiting the American coast 

 between Maine and Virginia. Our maritime district, in addition 

 to being situated far up on the Atlantic coast-line, is of very 

 limited latitudinal extent, and yet I have evidence of the occur- 

 rence there of twenty-eight shore species. This number includes 

 JSuhbatia gracilis, which is a Canadian plant according to Kalm, 

 and S. stellaris, the occurrence of which within our limits rests 

 upon the authority of Wood. The sea-lavender (^Statice Limoniuni), 

 judging by the range assigned it by Dr. Gray, is to be looked for 

 upon the gulf-coast. It is a native of Newfoundland. Aste7' 

 R'ldula^ a coast form, which, in the United States, ranges from 

 Delaware to Maine, is found in Anticosti and Newfoundland. 

 Though resembling the sea-shore species in its preference for the 

 coast, it does not appear to be a strictly maritime form. It is not 

 included in Dr. Gray's list. 



The small catalogue here given embraces every species known 

 to me to occur on the gulf-coast between the Bay of Chaleurs 

 and Labrador. 



Ranunculus Cymbalaria. Mertensia maritima. 



Cakile Americana. Sabbatia gracilis. 



Hudsonia tomentosa. S. stellaris. 



Honkenya pe})loide3. Atriplex hastata. 



Spergularia rubra, Salicornia berbacea. 



var. marina. Chenopodina maritima. 



Hibiscus moscbeutos. Salsola Kali. 



Lathyrus marilimus. Acnida cannabina. 



Ligusticum Scoticum. Euphorbia polygonifolia. 



Archangelica peregrina. Triglochin palustre. 



Solidago sempervirens. T. maritimum. 



Plantago maritima, Juncus bulbosus. 



var. jiincoides. Calamagrostis arenaria. 



Armeria vulgaris. Spartina polystachya. 



Glaux maritima. Brizopyrum spicatum. 



In connection with this subject, it may not be inappropriate 

 here to notice the peculiar occurrence of maritime species in the 

 interior of Canada, and of New York and other States. They are 

 found as well upon the coasts of Lakes Superior and Huron, as 

 near the margins of Lakes Erie, Ontario, and Champlain. Mr. J. 

 E. Cabot, the author of the narrative of the expedition in Agassiz's 

 Lake Superior, thus adverts to the eastern side of the lake : " The 



