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carpets of the northern Speedwell (Veronica humifusa), while a beau- 
tiful gray-green Ladies’ Mantle (Alchemilla sp.) made a misty fringe 
at the edge of the tumbling waters. Occasionally in the wet moss there 
was a delicate carpet of Cystopteris montana (Lam.) Bernh., suggest- 
ing a compromise between a broad-fronded C. bulbifera and a stockily 
developed Phegopteris Dryopteris; or a colony of Pinguicula vulgaris 
with rich voilet flowers, ordinarily mingled with various Saxifrages 
and Drabas or the little white Parnassia Kotzebuei C. & S. (of southern 
Labrador, the Gaspé Peninsula, and the Alaskan area). On the 
exposed rocks at the crests of the terraces were great colonies of 
Cerastiums, differing from any we had got in Newfoundland and 
adding two more to the plants we had already collected which, by 
matching in the herbarium, we are forced for the time being to call 
vaguely “Cerastium alpinum.” Occasionally in more open springy 
spots there were strange sedges and rushes: the chestnut-colored 
Kobresia caricina Willd., its range in eastern America now extended 
south from Greenland, or Juncus triglumis L., an extremely neat 
little species suggesting J. stygius. Near the top of the upper terrace 
was a meadow crimson and orange-scarlet with Senecio pauciflorus 
Pursh which has discoid heads, the involucre crimson-tinged, the 
corolla-lobes orange-red, and the anthers yellow. 
I had hardly reached the crest at supper time and before turning 
back could have only the sad satisfaction of seeing for myself that 
beyond for miles stretched an alluring and to botanists unknown area 
of alpine meadows, bogs, pools and dry ridges which the approaching 
night and the call to supper, not to mention the serious difficulty of 
carrying more plants, forced me to leave until " next time.” Return- 
ing to the plain, I descended the terrace by a new route, haunted by 
the consciousness that I was passing by innumerable good things, 
but stopping only once in the hasty descent to gather a conspicuous 
lilac-flowered Erigeron, the new E. acris, var. oligocephalus,! and again 
to look over some brackish rocks along shore. Here was a Scurvy 
Grass (Cochlearia officinalis L.) in splendid development, flowering 
and fruiting plants and new rosettes of thickish round leaves. I was 
curious to eat some of the plant which for centuries had been credited 
with great virtues and found it a most palatable salad, in texture 
crisp and somewhat fleshy, in flavor like horse-radish. Near by 
1 Fernald & Wiegand, Ruopora, xii. 226 (1910) 
