ST. JOHN: SABLE ISLAND. 91 
" I have specimens of this plant which were found near Oswego, X. Y., 
by the Rev. David Brown of Lockport. It is apparently indigenous. " 
In 1865, J. A. Paine commented,^ "Meadows and pastures, Oswego, 
two miles northward near the Lake shore; two or three miles south 
of the city and east of the river, borders of woods. Local." The 
evidence presented by the collectors and the field observers would 
certainly tend to indicate that in this case, at least, the plant was a 
native. In this connection the form of the successive records of 
the species from Sable Island is illuminating. The plant seems first to 
have been recorded from Sable Island (under the name E[rythraea] 
Centaurium Pers.) in Macoun's Catalogue, ii. 342 (1890): "Sandy 
wastes on Sable Island off the coast of Nova Scotia. Collected July, 
1870. (Mrs. Almond). " This record now appears in Gray's Manual^ as 
"Waste grounds, N. S. ;" in Britton and Brown's Illustrated Flora,' 
"In waste places. Nova Scotia- — Naturalized from Europe." Now 
"sandy wastes" on Sable Island are not "waste places;" they are in 
the strictest sense the sand dunes, and not a habitat in which the 
plants could be assumed to be introduced. 
Collected by J. Macoun (C. no. 22,543); and l)y //. T. Giissow 
(E); //. St. John, nos. 1,304, and 1,305 (H). 
Fl. — August and September. Fr. — September. 
CONVOLVULACEAE. 
Convolvulus sepium L. Abundant on the slopes of the dry 
dunes, where the stems intertwine for great distances between the 
culms of Amviojjhila and Laihyrua mariiiimis, helping in the formation 
of the dense tangles in the more sheltered places. Listed by J. 
Macoun. H. St. John, nos. 1,359 and 1,360 (H). 
FL, Fr. — September. 
BORAGINACEAE. 
Lappula echinata Gilib. A single adventive specimen found 
near the Main Life Saving Station. //. St. John, no. 1,308 (H). 
Fl. — August. 
*As Erythram Centaurium Pcrs. Paine, J. A.: Cat. of PI. I'ouiid in Oneida 
Co., and Vicinity, 64 (llO) (1805). 
^Robinson, B. L., and Fcrnald, M. L.: (;ray'.s Manual, cd. 7, GoG (190S). 
^As Cenlaurium Centaurium (L.) W. F. Wight, Britton and Brown: III. 
Fl., ed. 2, iii. 2 (1913). 
