126 PROCEEDINGS OF UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 
PLANTS. 
In reviewing and adding to the excellent list of ‘Labrador Plants,” 
by the Rey. S. R. Butler (Canadian Naturalist, vol. v, 1870, September, 
p. 350), it seems necessary to say a few words explanatory of the nature 
of the regions bordering the sea-coast, as well also of those in the inte- 
rior of Labrador. 
There are two well-defined areas to which I would call attention; a 
simple designation of them as sea-coast and interior will present to you 
the general idea which I wish to convey. I will draw the line, as near 
as my own observation coincides with that of others, at somewhere be- 
tween 2 and 4 miles inland. Of the interior of this whole region very 
little is known. In summer, woods of mostly low, stunted spruce, with 
various evergreens, are everywhere abundant, and it is with the utmost 
difficulty that one can make any progress whatever. Few have at- 
tempted to penetrate this area, and we know but little of it. Its access- 
ible edges abound in many plants very similar to ours, especially those 
crowning the summits of the White Mountains. That part styled the 
coast differs from the province just mentioned in that it is composed 
mostly of numerous low, hilly, island crests, everywhere interspersed 
with narrow straits of water, besides a narrow ribbon of land up and 
down the coast line itself. The general flora of all the islands is much the 
same, but there are localized species of both wild and introduced plants. 
Mr. Butler makes the following remarks prefatory to his enumera- 
tion of species in the above-named paper: ‘The two places I have most 
thoroughly examined are Caribou Island and Fortean Bay. When a 
plant is marked ‘Caribou,’ it is meant that I found it only at that place; 
when ‘Forteau’ is mentioned, the plant may occur all around Forteau 
Bay, while ‘Amour’ means that I have found it only at ‘L’ance Amour,’ 
and that it is not likely to occur elsewhere in the Bay ; and where no local- 
ity is specified, the species may be expected to occur at many places, if not 
all along the coast.” The collection of Miss MacFarlane, referred toin 
the same paper, has also afforded much valuable material. The speci- 
mens collected by myself were procured at Harrington Harbor, the south- 
ernmost limit visited, Baie des Roches, Bonne Espérance (in and about 
Salmon Bay); also the ‘“‘winter quarters” of the inhabitants, a distance 
of 7 miles inland, up Esquimaux River, and which belongs to the main- 
land. , 
The list here presented is impartial and imperfect at best, but it will 
suffice until a more accurate and thorough examination of the country 
shall perfect it. The letter B, after a plant, signifies that the remarks 
are by Mr. Butler. 
1, ANEMONE PARVIFLORA, Michx. 
Common upon the high lands of Forteau. B. 
