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My first walk from the hotel towards the shore at Schooner Head 

 showed how northern the vegetation looked and how much it 

 reminded one of the Lower St. Lawrence at the Saguenay region. 

 Abies balsamea, Miller, and Picea alba, Link, fruiting when only 10 to 

 15 ft. high grow quite to the water's edge ; one group of white spruces 

 from which I collected the seashore moss Ulota phyllant/ia, Prid., 

 stretched its branches over water many feet deep which beat about 

 the base of the cliff, wetting the halophilous moss, Grimmia mariiima, 

 Turner, with its spray, while Empctrum nigrum, L., in deep cushions 

 and Lonicera caerulea, L., in breast-high bushes covered the ground. 

 On the rocky beach grew another Saguenay-Tadousac plant, Iris 

 Hookeri, Penny, cited in Britton's new Manual as found on " River 

 shores Newfoundland to Quebec and Maine"; but I think Prof. 

 Macoun is right when he says in Cat. Can. Plants, Vol. U. p. 25, 

 "Apparently peculiar to the sea coast and always found within the 

 limit of the spray from the sea." All Macoun 's stations are marine 

 and this station at Cutler extends its limits from the Gulf of St. 

 Lawrence around the coast to the United States. Fernald's No. 147 

 Maine Flora on which perhaps the Maine citation for /. Hookeri is 

 founded is a plant with a very small pod but the beak of true I. 

 versicolor. 



On this rocky beach grew also a tall, slender dark green Sagina 

 nodosa, Fenzl, which on examination proved to be different from our 

 usual New England plant in being quite glabrous, and thus exactly 

 like the Tadousac plant. It is the true Sagina nodosa of Europe, and 

 all our other New England specimens appear to be the var. pnbescens 

 of Koch, while all the specimens in the Gray Herbarium from north 

 of the United States, including one from Isle Royale, Lake Superior, 

 are the true S. nodosa. The var. pnbescens I found also at Cutler and 

 perhaps the two forms on the coast do not intrude on each other's 

 territory, as the glabrous plant has not before this been reported 

 from New England, while the var. pnbescens, though cited as rare in 

 the Mt. Desert Flora, is quite common at Piddeford Pool, Me., and 

 other points on the coast south to Massachusetts. 



The seashore Plantagos are sufficiently troublesome, but one little 

 Tadousac plant attracted my notice immediately — the Plantago 

 borealis, Lange, described in Flora Danica, Vol. XVI. t. 2707, and 

 recorded from Greenland and Iceland and extreme northern Norway. 

 It does not appear to have been separated by Macoun in his Cata- 



