CHAPTER XVI. 



THE BOTANV^ OF THE LABRADOR COAST. 



Very little herbalizing has been done on the shores of 

 this region and none at all in the interior. The earliest 

 paper devoted especially to Labrador botany appears to 

 be E. Meyer's De plantes labradoricis published at 

 Leipzig in 1830. The late Rev. Samuel Weiz, for many 

 years missionary at Hopedale, kindly allowed us while 

 at that station in 1864 to make a copy of his list of 

 northern Labrador plants. As regards the botany of 

 the St. Lawrence or Gulf Coast of Labrador we know 

 more. The Rev. S. R. Butler, a missionary and succes- 

 sor of the Rev. C. C. Carpenter at Caribou Island, near 

 the mouth of Eskimo River, botanized several seasons 

 on Caribou Island, at Forteau Bay and L'Ance Amour, 

 and the results are given in his excellent list entitled 

 "Labrador Plantes," published in the Canadian Natural- 

 ist.* This list was added to by Mr. W. A. Stearns,f who 

 collected at Harrington Harbor, Bale des Roches, Bonne 

 Esp^rence and Salmon Bay and at a point seven miles 

 up the Eskimo River. Miss MacFarlane also afforded 

 Mr. Butler " much valuable material." Reference may 

 also be made to Sir John Richardson's list of plants col- 



*Vol. V. 1870. September No. 



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