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proved to be mostly Laurentian gneiss";  Hopedale, Labrador, its 
rock “of the ordinary Laurentian gneiss... with veins of quartz and 
of granite" ;? Indian Harbor, Labrador, with “hills. . .formed of a pale 
whitish foliated syenite";? Battle Harbor, Labrador; L’Anse au 
Loup and Blane Sablon, Labrador, with their lowlands of Laurentian 
gneiss; Barred Island and Baccalieu Island and Twillingate, New- 
foundland;* open granite crests, Mt. Steepmore, Newfoundland; 
open granitic ledges, Mt. Musgrave, Newfoundland; Laurentian 
uplands back of Balena, Newfoundland; crests of Huronian hills, 
Miquelon; La Tabatiére and Mécatina, Saguenay Co., Quebec, 
in the gneissoid region of the “North Shore";? crests of hornblende 
schist, Flagstaff Peak, Mt. Albert, Quebec; Traveller Mt., Maine, 
“composed of a beautiful drab colored siliceous slate"; Mt. Katah- 
din, Maine; and the White Mts., New Hampshire. 
The preference for caleareous soils of the scarlet-berried plant is 
clearly indicated also by the Canadian stations from which it is 
definitely known: Anticosti Island, composed of Silurian rocks, 
chiefly limestones;? Fort Churchill, Hudson Bay, with its areas of 
Silurian and Cambro-Silurian limestones;!? Jaspar House, Alberta, 
at the base of a conspicuous limestone mountain;" Bow River Pass 
(including Banff, Sulphur Mt., and Laggan), Alberta, where “The 
rocks composing the mountains on both sides of the valley are almost 
entirely of the limestone series";? Kicking Horse Pass (including 
Field), British Columbia, with “rocks referred to the great limestone 
series coming down to the level of the bottom of the valley”; Yoho 
Valley (North Fork, Cross River), British Columbia, where “the 
limestones, both in the bottom of the valley and so far as could be 
1 R. Bell, 1. c. 14 D D (1885). 
? Packard, Lab. Coast, 206 (1891). 
3 Packard, l. c. 171 (1891). 
! '*' We pass Outer Battle Island and the ‘Two Sisters, bare, low islands of nearly 
white gneiss.” — Packard, 1. c. 137 (1891). 
5 See Packard, 1. c. 116-118 (1891); also Fernald, Ruopora, xiii. 121 (1911). 
* All in the sandstone, diorite and serpentine region of Notre Dame Bay (See How- 
ley's geological map). 
7See Logan, Can. Geol. 287 (1863). 
8 C. H. Hitchcock, Prelim. Rep. Nat. Hist. and Geol. Me. for 1861, 403. 
* See Logan, Geol. Can. Chaps. x and xii. 
10 See Tyrrell, Geol. Surv. Can., Ann. Rep., n. s., ix. 167, 168 F (1897). 
1 ' Roche Miette, a notable landmark. . stands on the east side of the Athabasca 
a few miles below Jaspar Lake” and is composed chiefly of limestone — See McEvoy, 
Geol. Surv. Can., Ann. Rep., n. s. xi. 29D and Pl. 1 (1900). 
12 G. M. Dawson, Geol. Surv. Can., Ann. Rep., n. s., i. 134 B (1886). 
13 Dawson, l. c. 139B (1886). 
