80 PROCEEDINGS: BOSTON SOCIETY NATURAL HISTORY. 



terre si souvent enveloppee de brouillards et visitee par les orages" 

 (T. p. 29). J. Macoun; H. T. Giissow; H. St. John, no. 1,260 (H). 

 Fr. August and September. 



[R. NITIDA Willd., is a tentative determination put on material 

 in young leaf collected by J. Dwight, Jr. (D. p. 13). The plant is 

 doubtless R. mrginiana.] 



LEGUMINOSAE. 



CYTISUS SCOPARIUS (L.) Link. In 1901 there were planted 

 1,000 bushes of this species. In 1913 there was to be seen but one 

 small clump which still survived in Gourdeau Park. H. St. John, 

 no. 1,261 (H). 



TRIFOLIUM PRATENSE L. A weed, well established around the 

 Life Saving Stations. J. Dwight, Jr. (D. p. 12) states that this 

 species has "been cultivated near the stations." H. T. Giissow ; 

 H. St. John, no. 1,262 (H). 



Fl. August and September. 



T. REPENS L. Dry sand flats and pond shores. An anonymous 

 writer who visited Sable Island in 1851 says, " In the neighbourhood 

 of the chief residence, where white clover and other grasses have been 

 sown, so luxuriant is the yield that over 100 tons of hay are made 

 annually" (Leisure Hour, xxx. 433, 1881). 



J. Dwight, Jr., (D. p. 12) in referring to this species says, "Man's 

 influence has been at work on the island for so many centuries that 

 it is almost impossible to draw the line between indigenous species, 

 if such there be, and those artificially introduced." This species 

 grows particularly on the dry sands near the Life Saving Stations 

 and along the shores of the adjacent ponds where the cattle and the 

 domesticated ponies browse continually, and because of this it seemed 

 to the writer that the White Clover was one of the species that was 

 obviously introduced. Listed by J. Macoun (also as " white clover, " 

 M. p. 218A); H. St. John, no. 1,263 (H). 



FL, Fr. August. 



T. HYBRIDUM L. A garden weed. Listed by J. 'Macoun; H. St. 

 John, no. 1,264 (H). 

 FL, Fr. September. 



Lathyrus maritimus (L.) Bigel. Very abundant all over the 

 island, and an able ally of the Sand Grass in its perpetual defensive 



