1911] Fernald,— Expedition to Newfoundland 127 
St. John’s, who were making a circuit of Newfoundland collecting 
plants for their newly organized Natural History Society. As loyal 
British subjects they were trying to identify their plants by means 
of Bentham’s Handbook of the British Flora; and I am sure they were 
able thus to identify nearly half the species they found, for of the 
known vascular plants of Newfoundland (scarcely 1000 species) more 
than 400 occur in Scotland, northern England or Ireland, though about 
25 of them are found in the ‘‘manual region.” 
At Port Saunders we were joined again by Wiegand and Kittredge 
who, having met at Forteau with no such comfortable quarters as 
we enjoyed at Blanc Sablon, had come south a week before and had 
been having a busy week on the limestone barrens about Ingornachoix 
Bay and on Pointe Riche. They had some of the best things of Blane 
Sablon — Hordeum boreale Scribner & Smith, Kobresia caricina Willd., 
Juncus triglumis L., ete. — and a most interesting lot besides: 
Carex bicolor All., quite like the smallest European specimens; Salix 
reticulata L., reported years ago from Ingornachoix Bay by la Pylaie 
and so far as we can make out just like the shrub of northern Europe; 
other strange willows including a beautifully distinct species allied 
to the Lapland S. lanata L.; Lesquerella arctica (Richardson) Watson, 
var. Purshii Watson, a single stunted individual but precious, for 
the plant had heretofore been known only from Anticosti; Drosera 
anglica, familiar in the marl-bogs of Gaspé; Potentilla maculata 
Pour., now extended south from northern Labrador; P. nivea L., 
an arctic species already familiar to me on calareous cliffs of eastern 
Quebec, but here with remarkable old thickened caudices; Dryas 
integrifolia Vahl, another arctic type familiar on the Gaspé limestones; 
ampanula rotundifolia L., var. alaskana Gray, a gigantic variety 
previously known only from the Bering Sea region; two new Anten- 
narias, one of them a canescent variety of A. alpina (L.) R. Br. 
(var. cana Fernald & Wiegand"), the other apparently an undescribed 
species; Tanacctum huronense in a dense low and very pubescent form 
found in dry exposed shingle; and other good things too numerous 
to mention. 
Once back to our presses at Birchy Cove it took us only two days 
‘o put up all our specimens and by means of corrugated boards and 
hot papers ? to get them ready to leave, so that in three days we were 
‘ Rrovora, xiii, 24 (1911). 2 See J. F. Collins, Raopora, xii. 221 (1910). 
