ST. JOHN: SABLE ISLAND. 83 



thirty or forty varieties of shrubs and plants." He mentions ten 

 species, closing with the phrase, "and as Autumn heats yellow the 

 luxuriant green, the tall, mallow, gay golden rods and wild China- 

 asters are swept by the heaving gales." J. C. Tache (T. p. 28-9) 

 in 1885 refers to eight of these ten species in a passage which is noth- 

 ing but a free translation from Gilpin. For instance Tache begins 

 with, "La Flore des Sablons n'a point ete completement catalogued 

 on a dit qu'un botaniste pourrait y observer trente a quarante especes 

 ou varietes; * * * * Ces deux plantes fourrageres, auxquelles 

 s'adjoignent la verge d'or, la mauve et des autres especes * * * ' 

 Tache, it will be seen has taken Gilpin's "tall, mallow," literally 

 and records it definitely as, "la mauve." Gilpin's sentence, as it 

 stands, is inconsistent, for if there were no comma after "tall, "it 

 would be clear that he wished to record some tall mallow. As it is, 

 he seems to be setting off by commas a series of adjectives ail quali- 

 fying "golden rods," and we may perhaps interpret "mallow" as 

 a misprint for "mellow." No one of the four naturalists to visit 

 Sable Island has found anything that could be called or mistaken 

 for a "tall, mallow." Consequently, it seems better to drop this 

 record as a probable error.] 



GUTTIFERAE. 



Hypericum boreale (Britton) Bicknell. Abundant in the wet 

 dune hollows. J. Macoun (C. no. 21,158). Listed by H. T. Gussow. 

 H. St. John, nos. 1,274 and 1,275 (H). 



FL, Fr August. 



[H. MUTILUM L. of J. Macouri's list is H. boreale.] 



H. virginicum L. Occasional in the wet dune hollows and cran- 

 berry bogs. J. Macoun (C. no. 21,157); listed by H. T. Gussow; 

 H. St. John, no. 1,276 (H). 



FL July and August. 



VIOLACEAE. 



Viola septentrionalis Greene. Collected only by H. S. Glaze- 

 brook, the Station Master of Life Saving Station No. 3. 

 FL June. . 



[V. OBLIOUA Hill (Blue Violets) is recorded by J. Dwight, Jr. 

 (D. p. 13). A search in the Herbarium of the New York Botanical 



