82 BOTANICAL GAZETTE [auGuUST 
As to previcus literature of this particular subject, there is 
none. In 1886 Dr. G. U. Hay made a collection of Miscou plants 
for the Geological Survey of Canada, but no account of them 
was ever published, and no other botanist has heretofore been on 
the island. In many respects, however, as the reader will observe, 
the vegetation of this beach plain resembles closely the vegetation 
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Fic. 1.—Outline map of part of the Gulf of St. Lawrence, to show the geographical 
position of Miscou Island. S 
of the sand beaches and dunes of Lake Michigan as described in 
Cow Les’s well-known memoir,? and many of the conclusions of 
that work are also applicable here. : 
Grande Plaine extends along the west side of Miscou. Begi® 
ning on the south at Eel Brook, (see the accompanying map, fig. 2) 
2 Bor. GAZETTE 27:95-157, 167-202, 281-308, 361-391. 1899. 
