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logue of Canadian plants, but in Contributions from the Herbarium 

 of the Geological Survey of Canada, xi. (reprinted from Can. Rec. 

 Sci. 1897) 475, Mr. James M. Macoun refers various Labrador and 

 Hudson Bay specimens to P. borealis although no mention is made 

 of any Gulf of St. Lawrence specimens. I collected it at Tadousac 

 in Aug., 1892, and the Gray Herbarium has it from various stations 

 in Labrador, but not from the United States. 



The Plantago decipicns, Barneoud, from Cutler exactly matches 

 the original description in being extremely woolly on the scape just 

 below the inflorescence and somewhat woolly at base, with flat linear 

 leaves about equalling the scapes. The varying forms of Plantago 

 decipiens and P. maritima on the New England coast should be care- 

 fully collected for future study. 



While coming from the shore one evening we crossed a pasture 

 and in a wet place under the alders collected a Hicracium new to me 

 which proves to be H. floribundum, Wimmer and Grabouski, a well 

 known species of central Europe. This plant is new to the United 

 States, and doubtless an importation from Europe, though Cutler is 

 not exactly a port of entry ; yet the plant was growing quite luxuri- 

 antly under the alder bushes. 



In a wet place near the shore but not in salt marsh grew a very 

 robust Poa about 3 dm. high and with a culm 2 mm. or more thick. 

 I thought I had Poa alpina, L., but it proved to be P, pnitensis, L., 

 var. domestica, Laestad. : the arctic Poa pratensis has five varieties 

 affixed to it in Lange's Greenland Flora and the Cutler specimen 

 exactly matches authentic Greenland and Iceland specimens in the 

 Gray Herbarium of var. domestica. It has a Briza-like appearance 

 from the large spreading spikelets and as they are of a violet green 

 color the plant is quite striking. Lange says of it, "not unlike Poa 

 a/p/na." 



A curious feature of the rocky shore at Corbett's Point is a series 

 of small basins in the ledgy rocks holding fresh spring water : Mr. 

 Corbett told us that during the extreme drought of the summer of 

 1900 he found his cow never cared for water on her return from 

 pasture, although her usual drinking place was absolutely dry. Out 

 of curiosity he one day followed her to the pasture and saw her go 

 to the shf>re and drink from one of these basins, and this she con- 

 tinued to do all summer. These basins are of different sizes, from 

 an area of two square feet to only a few inches, and a dozen or more 



