56 CORRESPONDENCE. 
Amongst the plants he bought at the sale of the Linnean Society’s 
Collections in November, 1863, there was a parcel labelled outside, ** A 
Collection of Dried Plants from Newfoundland, made by — MacCor- 
mack, Esq.,* and. presented to Mr. David Don ;" and in this parcel 
were found two specimens of Calluna vulgaris, with the following 
label :—* Head of St. Mary's Bay ; Trepassey Bay also very abundant, 
S.E. of Newfoundland, considerable tracts of it," These specimens, 
as far as they go, agree exactly with our European ones, but unfor- 
tunately they have no flowers, and they do therefore not decide the 
knotty point raised by Mr. Durand, whether the American differs from 
the European plant in its **larger and more globular flowers.” Pro- 
fessor Oliver, in the paragraph cited, says that the Massachusetts plant 
“ does not seem to differ ;" and when recently reverting to it (* Natural 
History Review,’ January, 1864, p. 152), lays some stress upon, “the 
peculiar aspect of the Massachusetts plant compared with the European.” 
r. Watson’s specimens place it beyond doubt that a plant very 
closely allied to, if not absolutely identical with the Culluna vulgaris of 
the Old World covers large tracts of Newfoundland, and they render 
it almost certain that the plant is also indigenous to Massachusetts, and 
not a mere colonist. Our Calluna was found by'Gisecke in Greenland 
(sce Brewster's Cyclopedia); it. is common in Ireland, leeland, and 
the res, and its extension to. Newfoundland and the American 
continent is therefore not so much a paradox as a fact, at which we 
might almost have arrived by induction.—B. SEEMANN. 
CORRESPONDENCE. 
The American W oodsia glabella in the Tyrol and Carinthia, i 5 
13, Craven Hill, Jan. 28th; 1864. ' 
In June last, whilst staying under the friendly shelter of the hospice of Auf 
der Plecken, on the south side of the Eailthal, Carinthia, —not so many miles 
* Probably W. E. Cormack (supposed to have been a merckant), who made se- 
veral voyages to Newfoundland. In copying his name “ Mr.” was probably mistaken 
for ^" Mr.” 
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