154 Rhodora [AucusT 
the southern part of the county of Gaspé. A single station only has 
been noted in the former county, a small clump of bushes on the 
“common” at New Carlisle, a district covered with white sea-sand 
rather than the red calcareous soil of the surrounding country. 
In eastern Gaspé County, however, the limestones and calcareous 
slates of the Silurian and the strongly calcareous red conglomerates 
(Bonaventure conglomerates) of the Lower Carboniferous areas 
give way very largely to the non-calcareous dark sandstones and 
shales of the Devonian system; and the vegetation from Malbaie to 
the mouth of the Dartmouth River (and probably beyond) becomes 
essentially that of eastern New England. There, in an area notable 
from the presence of such plants as Picea nigra, Nemopanthus fasci- 
cularis, Typha latifolia, Prenanthes trifoliolata, Geum virginianum, 
Lusula campestris, var. multiffora, and many other characteristic 
species of eastern New England and New Brunswick, which are 
rare or unknown on the calcareous soils of Gaspé Peninsula, the 
ordinary type of Ribes oxyacanthoides, with leaves only slightly 
pubescent, is common, and it is probable that it occurs on the broad 
Devonian upland which occupies the center of the Peninsula. 
Throughout the great Silurian and Lower Carboniferous areas 
which lie south of the central Devonian upland of Gaspé Peninsula 
typical Rides oxyacanthoides, as already stated, is apparently absent, 
though it occurs locally on the sand dunes of New Carlisle, and 
probably on other dunes and beaches. Associated, however, with 
such lime-loving plants as Carex livida and C. vaginata, Rhyn- 
chospora capillacea, Juncus Stygius, var. Americanus, Tofieldia glutinosa, 
Salix candida, Pingincula vulgaris, and Senecio discoideus, in the damp 
arbor-vitae forest and about the numerous marly ponds which char- 
acterize the Silurian and Lower Carboniferous districts, there is a 
smooth-fruited gooseberry which in leaf-outline and habit suggests 
Ribes oxyacanthoides, but which has the lower surface of its mature 
leaves so copiously soft-villous as to be grayish-white or silvery, 
while the pilose upper surfaces are dull pale green. ‘This handsome 
shrub with the permanently villous lower leaf-surfaces was found by 
Messrs. J. F. Collins, A. S. Pease, and the writer in essentially all 
arbor-vitae swamps and on the margins of marl-ponds and occasion- 
ally on damp calcareous cliffs, from Carleton, near the head of the 
Baie des Chaleurs, to Percé, at the tip of the Peninsula. Confined 
to the strongly calcareous soils, where it fruits profusely, this shrub 
