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and Solidago multiradiata Ait., the common Arctic American repre- 
sentative of the Virgaurea group. 
We were still putting our exciting collections into press when the 
“Home” returned from the North bringing Wiegand with his Cow 
Head material — practically all the calciphiles of the Humber River 
marbles and some not met before: Botrychium Lunaria, a species 
which abounds locally in calcareous gravels and beaches or on damp 
turfy slopes around much of the Gulf of St. Lawrence, often attaining 
splendid proportions (2-2.5 dm. high, with the sterile lamina 6-7 cm. 
long); Poa alpina and P. eminens, two of the handsomest of the genus; 
Salix Pseudo-myrsinites Anderss., a frequent species in the Canadian 
Rockies and on the Gaspé limestones; one of the puzzling Scurvy 
Grasses (Cochlearia anglica L.); Draba incana L. and its var. confusa 
(Ehrh.) Poir. which are familiar to those who have been at Percé 
in eastern Quebec; Arabis alpina L.; Saxifraga caespitosa L.; Par- 
nassia parviflora; Oxytropis campestris DC., var. caerulea Koch, a 
singularly misnamed plant since its flowers are crimson or “ rose- 
purple ” and, like those of many other Leguminosae, become blue only 
when dry; and Hedysarum alpinum L., a larger-flowered plant than 
our variety ! of Gaspé, the St. John River, and Willoughby, which, 
as maintained more than a century ago by Michaux and more recently 
by Fedtschenko ? and by Ostenfeld,” certainly cannot be separated 
specifically from the Siberian H. alpinum. But the plant which upon 
first discovery was most interesting was a beautiful blue gentian, 
new to us as well as to the Gray Herbarium, Gentiana nesophila Holm, 
a species heretofore supposed to grow only on Anticosti, but after our 
first introduction found to be a common plant on the limestones of 
western Newfoundland as far north and south as we explored — Pointe 
Riche at the north, Port à Port at the south. In fact this gentian, 
which abounds on the limy gravels and in damp spots about Ingor- 
nachoix Bay and the foot of Bay St. John, was undoubtedly seen by 
la Pylaie who in that region found “une gentiane voisine du pneu- 
monanthe.” 
Now came the longest flight, the whole party like the Newfoundland 
fishermen migrating to the Labrador — not very far into Labrador, 
but north of the Straits of Belle Isle and east of the Canadian bound- 
1 Hedysarum alpinum: americanum Michx. Fl. ii. 74 (1803). H. boreale Nutt. Gen. 
ii. 110 (1818). H. americanum Britton, Mem. Torr. Bot. Cl. v. 201 (1894). 
2 Fedtschenko: Generis Hedysari revisio. Act. Hort. Petrop. xix. 253-258 (1901). 
3 Ostenfeld: Vascular Plants collected in Arctic North America by the Gjóa Expedi- 
tion. Vidensk. Selsk. Skrift. I Klasse, No. viii. 55, 56 (1909). 
