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terre si souvent enveloppee de brouillards et visitee par les orages" 
(T. p. 29). J. Macoun; II. T. Gussow; II. St. John, no. 1,260 (H). 
Fr. — August and September. 
[R. NiTiDA Willd., is a tentative determination put on material 
in young leaf collected by J. Dwighf, Jr. (I), p. 1.3). The plant is 
doubtless R. virgin inn a.] 
LEGUMINOSAE. 
Cytisus scoparius (L.) Link. In 1901 there were planted 
1,000 bushes of this species. In 1913 there was to be seen but one 
small clump which still survived in Gourdeau Park. //. St. John, 
no. 1,261 (H). 
Trifolium pratense L. a weed, well established around the 
Life Saving Stations. J. Dwight, Jr. (D. p. 12) states that this 
species has "been cultivated near the stations." //. T. Gussow; 
H. St. John, no. 1,262 (H). 
Fl. — August and September. 
T. REPENS L. Dry sand flats and pond shores. An anonymous 
writer who visited Sable Island in 1851 says, " In the neighbourhood 
of the chief residence, where white clover and other grasses have been 
sown, so luxuriant is the yield that over 100 tons of hay are made 
annually" (Leisure Hour, xxx. 433, 1881). 
J. Divight, Jr., (D. p. 12) in referring to this species says, "Man's 
influence has been at work on the island for so many centuries that 
it is almost impossible to draw the line between indigenous species, 
if such there be, and those artificially introduced." This species 
grows particularly on the dry sands near the Life Saving Stations 
and along the shores of the adjacent ponds where the cattle and the 
domesticated ponies browse continually, and because of this it seemed 
to the writer that the White Clover was one of the species that was 
obviously introduced. Listed by J. Macoun (also as "white clover," 
M. p. 218A); H. Si. John, no. 1,263 (H). 
FL, Fr. — August. 
T. HYBjiiDUM L. A garden weed. Listed by J. Macoun; H. St. 
John, no. 1,264 (H). 
FL, Fr. — September. 
Lathyrus maritimus (L.) Bigel. Very abundant all over the 
island, and an able ally of the Sand Grass in its perpetual defensive 
