BANKS’S NEWFOUNDLAND PLANTS 85 
‘‘Croque, June 15, 1766. Weather to Day extremely hot: 
walk out in the Evening, find a kind of Butter xem with Palmated 
Leaves [Petasites palmatus|: Broad leaved Kalmia [K. glauca], in 
cane abundance, scattered gre diglinciian over Bogs & 
Hills, wherever it is not _ ded by Trees, but rather ie i 
soil’: - kind of Rush, upon the high ent and dryest tops of Hills; 
one-blade FMdlieithemact Bifolium) everywhere in great abundance, 
most commonly i 83 Leaves on each stalk, from the Luxuriancy 
with which it gro a kind of very small Carex; a kind of Andro- 
meda rare macrocar pon] , whose Calyx & Corolla are both 
4 fid, growing always upon Bogs; a kind of Bilberry, growing on 
the most exposed sides of Rocks.” 
s return, Banks pace 0 the list already referred to— 
probably the earliest i in existence for Newfoundland. It is in itself 
sufficient evidence of his botanical attainments. He employed 
Ehret to make drawings of the more interesting of his plants; these, 
of which a list follows, are most beautifully executed on vellum, 
each being signed ‘* G. D. Ehret, 1767.” 
Anemone parviflora Mich. *Kalmia glauca Ait. 
Potentilla nivea Li. Rhodora canadensis L. 
*P, tridentata Ait. Ledum groenlandicum Q&d. 
Dryas integ “gr ifolia Vahl. Pleurogyne rotata Griseb. 
Mitella nuda L. Halenia deflexa Griseb. 
Epilobium Shale olla L. pee dia steadied Nutt. 
Senecio Pseudo-arnica Less. Comandra umbellata Nutt. 
* Petasites palmatus A. Gr. Listera convallarioides Nutt. 
Vaccinium a Sm. Habenaria obtusata Richards. 
*V, macrocarpo) Smilacina trifolia Desf. 
Chiogenes ser aera Salisb. *Clintonia borealis Raf. 
Of these twenty-two, bie are bound olen in a volume 
in the Department of Botany. a Teaniney five (marked * in 
macrocarpon, and Potentilla aorta is a note by Banks stating 
that they fare taken from dry specimens ink Die visaraiad the 
first of these and Rhodora icaudlohris are noted by Aiton as in- 
troduced to Kew Gardens in 1767 by Banks, which suggests that 
he also brought home living plants. 
Potentilla tridentata Ait. (1789) is based upon Banks’s specimens; _ 
if, * ee Willdenow and the Index Kewensis are right in con- 
sider ing P. retusa O. F. Muell (Fl. Dan. t. 799 (1778) ) as the 
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Fl, Dan. 129), however, this is a doubtful plant, differing from 
tridentata in having yellow flowers and in other characters. The 
Index incorrectly refers Horkelia tridentata and H. Tilingi to 
Potentilla tridentata, with which they have little in common; i 
Horkelia be placed in Potentilia, the name of the two — which 
