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' BULLETIN 



OF THE 



TORREY BOTANICAL CLUB 



Vol. XVIL] New York 



[No. 2. 



Plant Notes from Tadousac and Temiscouata County, Canada. 



By John T. Northrop and Alice B. Northrop. 



The little village of Tadousac is beautifully situated at the 

 junction of the Saguenay and the St. Lawrence. The latter river 

 here forms quite a deep bay, on the curving shores of which 

 stands the main part of the village, w^iile on the jutting rocky 

 point that separates the bay from the mouth of the Saguenay, 

 are the picturesque cottages of the French fishermen and half- 

 breeds. Just south of the village the banks become very steep 

 and here, far above the present beach, are two, and in some places, 

 three very fine terraces, stretching around the point of the bay 

 and for some distance down the St. Lawrence. Back of all rise 

 the lofty hills of the Saguenay. Our first walk was out on the 

 headland at the mouth of the latter river,and here, at the level of 

 the sea, we found many of the alpine plants of Mt. Washington; 

 among these were Potent ilia tride^itata, EitpJirasia officinalis and 

 Vacciniiim Vitis-Idcra. Great mats oS. Entpetriun nigrtun grew on 

 the rocky banks and beautiful Campanulas nodded from the crevi- 

 ces. We were interested in observing that here Campanula rotiin- 

 difolia bore only a single flower at the summit, and resembled 

 but slightly the large and many-flowered plants, two feet in height, 

 that we had collected in Crawford Notch, and also very different 

 apparently from the little blue bells, three inches high, that grow 

 near the Lake of the Clouds on Mt. Washington, and bear but a 

 single erect flower, of a very dark blue colpr. 



We found much the same difference in the forms of Euphrasia 

 officinalis. We had first collected it a few weeks previous, near 

 Oakes' Gulf on Mt. Washington, and there, though mature, it was 

 so tiny that in order to find it we had literally to get down on 

 our hands and knees, and go over the ground inch by inch. At 

 Tadousac we collected the usual small bushy Canadian form and 

 a week or two later, at Lake Temiscouata, found some specimens 

 about 8 inches high. Besides this alpine flora, there were many 



