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GEORGE B. RIGG 



FOX BAY, ALASKA PENINSULA, JULY 26-29 



In a valley at the head of one of the arms of Fox Bay a good deal 

 of sphagnum was found. Wherever there were undrained areas the 

 sphagnum had formed bogs. Enipetrum nigrum,, Ledum palustre, 

 Oxy coccus sp., and Eriophorum sp., were the characteristic plants 

 of these bogs. 



Ledum was found along with Empetrum to the top of the near- 

 by mountain (about 1400 feet) on the rocks but never among the 



Fig. 3. Ledum palustre, Salix reticulata, Cladonia sp., and other plants in the bog 

 at -Sand Pointy Shumagin Islands. 



grass in the meadow-like places. Ledum when growing on the 

 rocks was prostrate and showed a dorsiventral arrangement of the 

 leaves. 



SAND POINT, POPOF ISLAND, JULY 30-31 



A long narrow sphagnum bog occupies the entire flat portion 

 of the valley leading down to the village of Sand Point. It has 

 been dammed near the lower end and the water supply for the 



