WILLOW GROUS. 333 



Young a few days old. Plate CXCI. Fig. 3, 3. 



The young are covered with a dense elastic down, of a yellowish tint, 

 variegated above with a few large streaks of dark brown, on a light 

 brown ground ; the top of the head with a longitudinal brown patch mar- 

 gined with black. 



The Young when fully fledged resemble the Female. 



The Labrador Tea Plant. 



Ledum latifolium, IVilld. Sp. PL vol. ii. p. 602. Pursh, Fl. Amer. Sept. vol. i. 

 p. 301 Decandria Monogynia, Linn. Riiododendha, Juss. 



The Labrador Tea Plant springs up among the rich and thick moss 

 that everywhere covers the country of Labrador. I was informed that 

 the fishermen and Indians frequently make use of it instead of tea. 



It is a small shrub, about a foot in height, with linear oblong leaves, 

 which are folded back at the margin, and covered on the back with a 

 rust-coloured down. The flowers are white. 



The Sea Pea. 



PisuM makitimum, Willd. Sp. PI. vol. iii. p. IO7I. Pursh, Flor. Amer. Sept. vol. ii. 

 p. 470 Diadelphia Decandria, Linn. LeguminosjE, Juss. 



This species of Pea grows in the same country, generally in the 

 vicinity of the sea. It has an angular stem, with sagittate stipules, and 

 many-flowered peduncles, with large purple, blue and red flowers. 



