PLANT NOTES FROM TADOUSAC AND TEMISCOUATA 

 COUNTY, CANADA 1 



By John I. and Alice R. 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, while 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 Potentilla tridentata, Euphrasia officinalis, and Vaccinium 

 Vitis-Idcea. Great mats of Empetrum nigrum grew on the rocky 

 banks and beautiful Campanulas nodded from the crevices. We were 

 interested in observing that here Campanula rotundifolia 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 

 color. 



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 



1 Bull. Torrey Botanical Club, Vol. XVII, No. 2, February, 1890. 



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