84 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
BANKS’S NEWFOUNDLAND PLANTS. 
By James Brirten, F.L.S. 
plant, and that Pursh confused these mountains with the ‘‘ White 
ills of New Hampshire.” 
This suggestion is plausible, but I do not think it is the true 
explanation. In the first place, I am not clear that Pursh meant 
to convey the impression that Peck’s plant was in Herb. Banks, but 
only that he had seen D. tenelia therein, as Dr. Fernald shows to 
have been the case. The few plants from Peck which are in Herb. 
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locality in the MS. journal of his voyage to Newfoundland, nor in 
I am therefore rather inclined to 
suppose that Pursh’s entry is entirely erroneous, being based upon 
an inaccurate remembrance of the plants which he had seen in 
Peck’s herbarium. 
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name tenella, although published by Pursh, was originally 
given to the plant in the Banksian Herbarium, 
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e been seen by Pursh, 
as he makes no reference to the colour of the flower as differing 
from that of D. octopetala. 
The present seems a suitable o 
to the Newfoundland material in the Banksian collection. Besides 
with localities, 
Sophia Banks, of his “Journal of a Voyage to Newfoundland & 
his journal, which it is hoped may some day be published, is full 
of notes upon the natural history of the island, especially on the 
plants, of which the following is an example ;— 
