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Carex debilis, var. Rudgei, C. intumescens, Eriocaulon septangulare, 
Salix humilis, Populus tremuloides, Pyrus arbutifolia, var. atropur- 
purea, Ilex verticillata, Vaccinium macrocarpon, Melampyrum lineare 
and Diervilla Lonicera. This long list is given, obviously not to 
display any botanical richness of the region, but because in our whole 
summer’s experience most of these common plants of sterile coastal 
New England were nowhere encountered except in the sandstone areas 
of central Newfoundland and of Bay St. George or occasionally on 
the most sterile summits of hills and mountains. About Sandy Lake 
are dunes and sandy beaches covered with Elymus arenarius and 
Juniperus horizontalis, quite like a silicious coastal strip of eastern 
New England, but here in the very heart of Newfoundland. 
We climbed one of the higher granite mountains of the interior, 
Mt. Steepmore (or Seemore) but it had little to add to what was on 
the lower barrens, except Festuca ovina, var. brevifolia, Carex scir- 
poidea and deflexa, Juncus trifidus, Empetrum nigrum, var. purpureum 
(with small coral-red berries), Loiseleuria procumbens, Arctostaphylos 
alpina and Diapensia lapponica. In one of the Birchy Ponds at 
its base was the most beautiful pondweed imaginable, Potamogeton 
praclongus, forma elegans Tiselins, a form described from Scandinavia, 
with delicate translucent leaves almost a foot (3 dm.) long. 
A combination of mishaps, head winds, and ineffective guide forced 
us to turn back before reaching the eastern coast and, after waiting 
half the night in a peat-bog for the freight train due at 3 o'clock in the 
afternoon and which we stopped by waving a fire-brand, we reached 
headquarters in time to see Wiegand and Kittredge starting in the 
early morning for a three days’ trip to the Marble Mountain region 
of the Humber River. They returned in due time heavily laden 
with a good collection of calciphiles, among them Polystichum Lon- 
chitis, Carex eburnea, Tofieldia palustris, Microstylis monophyllos, 
Salix vestita Pursh, Arenaria verna, var. propinqua, A. litorea, a species 
probably long ago found in Newfoundland and reported by Pursh 
as A. juniperina (see Ruopora, viii. 34), Thalictrum alpinum box 
Anemone parviflora, Draba arabisans, Saxifraga Aizoon, aizoides, and 
oppositifolia, an Alchemilla, Erigeron hyssopifolius, and Taraxacum 
ceratophorum (Ledeb.) DC., mostly species which had been recorded 
by la Pylaie and which we afterward found to be common enough 
on all the exposed limestones of the West Coast, but certainly a re- 
freshing contrast to the commonplace collection which had come back 
from the sandy barrens and bogs of Goose Pond and Sandy Lake. 
