BOTANICAL NOTES ON THE WAY TO DAWSON. 17 g 



low Mcnzicsia^ and a juniper, near communis, was common in places. 

 Four or five species of Lycopodhim abounded and great beds of lichens 

 were seen on all sides. Among the latter a Feltigcra grew on damp, 

 shaded banks with the habit of aphthosa, but the thallus very pale, 

 and reddish apothecia beneath. Among mosses were perhaps two 

 species of Andrciea, a number of Cynodontiums and Dicraniuns, both 

 flourishing genera of this region, one or two species of Barbula, 

 Grimmia rivularis and two or three others of the genus, various spe- 

 cies of Racomitrium, apparently more abundant in both species and 

 individuals than the preceding; also Hcdivigia, DisticJiiiim (both spe- 

 cies), AmpJioridium, Ulota and two or three Orthotrichums, all on rock. 

 Wcbera, Bryum, Zieria and Mnhim were represented on earth mostly, 

 or in swampy places, but not apparently so abundantly as farther south. 

 Aulacomniuiii and Polytrichum were flourishing genera and specimens 

 of Timmia and Pogonatum collected. A sterile Climachnn grew 

 along the lake shore, and numerous species of the tribe Hypncce were 

 found everywhere. CamptotJicciiim nitcns was very abundant in 

 swamps, appearing blackish in places, owing evidently to an oil in the 

 water. Various species of BracJiythecmni were collected, but the 

 genus as a whole was not found very abundantly. A few species of 

 Plagiothccium were obtained, but scarcely anything in Amblystegimn. 

 Harpidium, Hypmim, Linnobium, Calliergon and Pleurogiiun were well 

 represented. On the sandy bottom of a small pond great quantities 

 of Scorpidiiim scorpioidcs were found, wholly submerged, the speci- 

 mens large and blackish, as usual in such situations. In swamps at 

 the head of Lindeman two Sphagniims ^\ere collected, both sterile; 

 also Paliidclla squarrosa without fruit. On moister slopes higher up, 

 probably 1,000 feet or so above the lake, was often a continuous car- 

 pet of lichens, mosses, etc., several inches thick, among which grew 

 various pretty evergreen species of Heath. Among the more con- 

 spicuous mosses here were, perhaps, Aiilacomniiim turgidum and 

 Dicramim pahistre. 



By May 26 the snow was quite well melted off on some of the 

 lower ridges and along the lake shore, and I fovmd on that date a \\X.- 

 t\e Ra//u/n-?i/i/s just in bloom, and catkins on Salix well expanded; 

 also on Alnus and Betiila, the latter a small bush with very glandular 

 twigs. Grasses and sedges were just peeping about an inch out of the 

 ground with their pale-green tips. 



A few days later our boats were finished, oars made, and on June 

 I at noon we had everything aboard and ready to start. The day was 

 bright and warm with favoring breeze, and, pulling up a sail, we 

 slipped off down the lake before the wind almost without using an 

 oar, bidding a happy farewell to the camp where we had worked so 



