It is true that a Boston botanist, Professor Fernald, has endeavoured to suggest that the vines, the corn, and the mösur wood were all products of quite a different order, which are to be found in Labrador. The vines, according to him, are the ‘partridge-berry’ of Canada (the _tyttebær_ of Norway); the corn, lyme-grass (arundo arenaria); and the mösur a form of birch. If this were so it is difficult to understand why things perfectly well known in Iceland should have attracted so much attention, or have been described by totally new names; or why a land containing nothing better than partridge-berries should have been called Wineland. As regards the vines, it may be further pointed out that ‘Vine-wood’ (vínvið) is more frequently mentioned in the sagas than grapes, which seems to rule out berries; lyme-grass (melur) is well known in Iceland, and a kind of flour was prepared from it in that country in quite recent times.[97] Lastly, the mösur wood was not anything known to the Norsemen, for we are expressly told, in the episode of the Bremen merchant, that Karlsefni did not know what wood it was. Altogether this, the latest variant of the Labrador theory, must be discarded like its predecessors. _Storm’s theory—Labrador, Newfoundland, Nova Scotia._ The theory most generally accepted at the present time is that put forward by Dr. Storm in _Studier over Vinlandsreiserne_. Before making any independent analysis of the voyages, it will be useful to examine this theory in the light of the principles just laid down. According to Storm, Helluland, Markland, and Wineland are Labrador, Newfoundland, and Nova Scotia respectively. The identification of Labrador with Helluland is based mainly upon the appearance of that barren coast, and the presence there of arctic foxes in large numbers. Certainly the little that we are told of Helluland suits Labrador very well, and the name conferred is suggestive of the unflattering description of the country written in later times by Jacques Cartier:—‘It should not be named the New Land, but _the land of stones and rocks_, frightful and ill-shaped, for in all the said North coast I did not find a cartload of earth, though I landed in many places,—in short, I deem rather than otherwise that it is the land God gave to Cain’. Indeed, as I know from personal experience, the bald, glaciated rocks of the Labrador coast are a feature so striking that one must admit the probability of the country deriving a name from them.