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on the limestone island of Anticosti,! it is interesting to find that the 
same large-fruited American variety of Carer Hornschuchiana was 
collected in 1883 on Anticosti by Professor John Macoun and was 
listed in his Catalogue as C. fulva, “certainly indigenous." 
The discovery of this plant would have made a fitting climax for 
one of the most thrilling days of our summer, but after we had re- 
peatedly made solemn vows to look at nothing else and were finally 
hastening back across the barren in. order to reach the settlement 
before dark, an unusual appearing Senecio came riding down a mass 
of sliding gravel to my very feet. This was too great a temptation, 
so I snatched the plant as it was sliding past and Professor Greenman 
tells me that it is one of a unique group of species supposed to grow 
only on the highest of the Rocky Mountains. While hurrying in the 
twilight down the slope to Port à Port we found damp ledges covered 
with Phegopteris Robertiana, a species rare in America, but quickly 
distinguished in the field from the common P. Dryopteris by its nar- 
rower firmer fronds and gray-green color. We were very late to supper 
but Mrs. MacDonald had a tempting rabbit stew and fresh lettuce 
ready for us; and next morning, after a breakfast of Lactarius delicio- 
sus (which we had never before made a pièce de résistance), when we 
washed and sorted our plants we found that we had collected on Table 
Mountain 184 species in quantities varying from one to twenty 
sheets — one of our record days for the summer. 
On the way back to Birchy Cove Wiegand and I left the train half 
way up Harry's River and followed the valley all day from there to 
the Log Cabin at Spruce Brook, on St. George's Pond. The region 
traversed was one we had watched with interest from the train, for 
there in the limy alluvium the plants reached a wonderful degree of 
luxuriance. The goldenrods, all strange to us and still unidentified 
except Solidago rugosa, var. villosa, were shoulder high; Calama- 
grostis Pickeringii, one of the commonest grasses of the island and 
elsewhere rarely 3 dm. high, was here more than 1 meter tall; Des- 
champsia caespitosa, which elsewhere on the island, as in eastern 
Canada and New England, is commonly 3 to 6 dm. high, here attained 
a gigantic stature, the first clump which met our gaze as we descended 
from the train being 1.5 meters (5 feet) high with panicles nearly 
5 dm. long; and in walking through the Ostrich Ferns and Cow Pars- 
1 Certain badly crumbled specimens from Labrador seem to be Lesquerella arctica, 
var. Purshii, but better material is needed to confirm its occurrence on that coast. 
