166 Rhodora [SEPTEMBER 
In the areas of the first group — the alpine districts of the Adirondacks - 
of New York; the exposed summits of Mt. Mansfield and Camel's 
Hump in Vermont; the alpine regions of the White Mts. of New 
Hampshire; of Baldpate, Saddleback, Abraham, Bigelow, Katahdin, 
and many lesser mountains of Maine; and of the tableland-area of 
Table-top in Gaspé; as well as the cliff-coast of eastern Maine — we 
find a flora many elements of which are common to all these areas, 
the remaining species being absent for the most part from only one or 
two. Of the 258 alpine and subalpine plants under consideration 
70 (27.1 per cent.) are confined exclusively to the areas indicated as 
Group I (including Ia); i. e., they are characteristic of the White Mts., 
Katahdin, or the tableland of Table-top, but are quite unknown from 
the cliffs of Willoughby or of Percé, or from the tableland of Mt. 
Albert. These 70 plants include such familiar species and varieties as 
Hierochloe alpina. Salix herbacea. 
Calamagrostis Langsdorffii. Arenaria groenlandica. 
Deschampsia atropurpurea. Rubus Chamaemorus. 
Poa laxa. Cassiope hypnoides. 
Carex rariflora. Arctostaphylos alpina. 
“ saxatilis, var. miliaris. Veronica alpina, var. unalaschcensis. 
Salix phylicifolia. Rhinanthus oblongifolius. 
*  argyrocarpa. Solidago Virgaurea, var. alpina. 
"*  Uva-ursi. Prenanthes Boottii. 
Of the distinctive plants of the second large group of alpine and 
subalpine areas — Smuggler's Notch; Willoughby Cliffs; certain sea- 
cliffs of Bie and of the north and east coasts of Gaspé; the cliffs of 
certain northwestern spurs of Table-top Mt., and various river-cliffs 
of northern Maine, New Brunswick and the interior of the Gaspé 
Peninsula — there is likewise a very long list, 94 (36.4 per cent. of the 
258 alpine plants here considered) of which are not, so far as known, 
ever found associated with the plants which characterize Groups I 
and III; while 11 others (4.3 per cent.) characteristic of Group I 
are known outside the areas comprising this group only on the north 
side of Mt. Albert which has already been noted as an anomalous 
area, Group Ia. Among the most familiar plants of this large flora 
(Group II) are 
Cryptogramma Stelleri. Anemone multifida. 
Asplenium viride. " parviflora. 
Woodsia alpina. Draba stylaris. 
" glabella. Saxifraga oppositifolia. 
Carex eburnea. n Aizoón. 
