ST. JOHN: SABLE ISLAND. 83 
thirty or forty varieties of shrubs and plants." He mentions ten 
species, closing with the phrase, "and as Autumn heats yellow the 
luxuriant green, the tall, mallow, gay golden rods and wild China- 
asters are swept by the heaving gales." J. C. Tache (T. p. 28-9) 
in 1885 refers to eight of these ten species in a passage which is noth- 
ing but a free translation from Gilpin. For instance Tache begins 
with, "La Flore des Sablons n'a point ete completement cataloguee: 
on a dit qu'un botaniste pourrait y observer trente a quarante especes 
ou varietes; * * * * Ces deux plantes fourrageres, auxquelles 
s'adjcignent la verge d'or, la mauve et des autres especes * * * " 
Tache, it will be seen has taken Gilpin's "tall, mallow," literally 
and records it definitely as, "la mauve." Gilpin's sentence, as it 
stands, is inconsistent, for if there were no comma after " tall, ' ' it 
would be clear that he wished to record some tall mallow. As it is, 
he seems to be setting off by commas a .series of adjectives all quali- 
fying "golden rods," and we may perhaps interpret "mallow" as 
a misprint for "mellow." No one of the four naturalists to visit 
Sable Island has found anything that could be called or mistaken 
for a "tall, mallow." Consequently, it seems better to drop tliis 
record as a probable error.] 
GUTTIFERAE. 
Hypericum boreale (Britton) Bicknell. Abundant in the wet 
dune hollows. ./. Macoun (C. no. 21,158). Listed by //. T. Gilssow. 
H. St. John, nos. 1,274 and 1,275 (H). 
Fi, Fr. — August. 
[II. MTTiLr.M L. of .7. Macoun' ft list is //. borcalc] 
H. virginicum L. Occasional in the wet dune hollows and cran- 
berry l)<)gs. ./. Macoun (C, no. 21,157); listed by //. T. Gilssow, 
IF St. Jolni, no. l,27(i (H). 
Fl. — July iuid .\ugust. 
VIOLACEAE. 
Viola septentrionalis (ireene. Collected only by //. S. Glaze- 
hrook, the Station Masti-r of Life Saving Station No. 3. 
Fl. — June. 
[V. OBLIOI'A Hill (Blue A'iolets) is recorded by ./. Diright, Jr. 
(D. p. 13). A search in the Herbarium of tlie New \'()rk Botanical 
