ST. JOHN: SABLE ISLAND. 91 



" I have specimens of this plant which were found near Oswego, N. Y., 

 by the Rev. David Brown of Lockport. It is apparently indigenous. " 

 In 1865, J. A. Paine commented, 1 "Meadows and pastures, Oswego, 

 two miles northward near the Lake shore; two or three miles south 

 of the city and east of the river, borders of woods. Local." The 

 evidence presented by the collectors and the field observers would 

 certainly tend to indicate that in this case, at least, the plant was a 

 native. In this connection the form of the successive records of 

 the species from Sable Island is illuminating. The plant seems first to 

 have been recorded from Sable Island (under the name E[RYTHRAEA] 

 CENTAURIUM Pers.) in Macoun's Catalogue, ii. 342 (1890) : " Sandy 

 wastes on Sable Island off the coast of Nova Scotia. Collected July, 

 1870. (Mrs. Almond). " This record now appears in Gray's Manual 2 as 

 "Waste grounds, N. S.;" in Britton and Brown's Illustrated Flora, 3 

 "In waste places, Nova Scotia Naturalized from Europe." Now 

 "sandy wastes" on Sable Island are not "waste places;" they are in 

 the strictest sense the sand dunes, and not a habitat in which the 

 plants could be assumed to be introduced. 



Collected by J. Macoun (C. no. 22,543); and by H. T. Gussow 

 (E); H. St. John, nos. 1,304, and 1,305 (H). 



Fl. August and September. Fr. September. 



CONVOLVULACEAE. 



Convolvulus sepium L. Abundant on the slopes of the dry 

 dunes, where the stems intertwine for great distances between the 

 culms of Ammophila and Lathyrus maritimus, helping in the formation 

 of the dense tangles in the more sheltered places. Listed by J. 

 Macoun. H. St. John, nos. 1,359 and 1,360 (H). 



FL, Fr. September. 



BORAGINACEAE. 



LAPPULA ECHINATA Gilib. A single adventive specimen found 

 near the Main Life Saving Station. H. St. John, no. 1,308 (H). 

 FL August. 



*As Erythraea Cenfaurium Pers. Paine, J. A.: Cat. of PI. Found inOneida 

 Co., and Vicinity, 64 (116) (1865). 



2 Robinson, B. L., and Fernald, M. L.: Gray's Manual, ed. 7, 656 (1908). 



3 As Centaurium Centaurium (L.) W. F. Wight, Britton and Brown: 111. 

 FL, ed. 2, iii. 2 (1913). 



