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collection of sedges which are being received by the Garden from 
many corners of the world, in exchange for the determination of 
material. 
The herbarium is gradually being put into order, though with 
our limited assistance this process will take a long time. A total 
of 3635 specimens were mounted and 557 specimens remounted. 
The rather extensive collections from the Pacific Coast States, 
especially, have not been gone over in recent years, and most of 
the groups are badly in need of revision. During the past year 
I have rearranged in large part our collection of the extensive 
genus Carex. 
Collections in 1934 totaling 1200 specimens were made by me 
chiefly from Long Island, the Catskill Mountains, northern New 
England, and the Gaspé Peninsula. 
Mt. Washington in the White Mts. was visited on July 3rd. 
The season had been early and the alpine Rhododendron lappont- 
cum, Diapensia lapponica, and Lotseleuria procumbens were past 
bloom, but in the uppermost reaches of the Alpine Garden flower- 
ing clumps of Cassiope hypnoides and Lotseleuria procumbens were 
still to be found. The golden flowers of Geum Peckit and the 
large-flowered J/oustonia of the White Mountains (//. caerulea 
var. Faxonorum) carpeted the mossy slopes. Labrador tea 
(Ledum groenlandicum) and the mountain sandwort (Arenaria 
groenlandica) were abundant. Each visit to the summit of Mt. 
Washington results in discovering some plant previously unseen 
by me, in this instance Saxifraga rivularis. In passing it may be 
noted that the alpine golden-rod, Solidago Cutlert, collected on the 
summit of Mt. Washington by Mr. Montague Free in 1915, has 
erown luxuriantly since that time in an open bed at the Botanic 
Garden. 
Plants were collected along the estuary of the St. Lawrence 
River below Quebec, although the season was not sufficiently 
advanced to see the great variation in the genus Bidens, or to 
find the endemic gentian of these tidal shores, Gentiana Victorinit, 
which I saw on my previous visit to the St. Lawrence estuary in 
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It is along the newly opened road around the Gaspé Peninsula 
that the most spectacular plants will be seen. From Bic east- 
