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Peat-tundra. The type of vegetation known as peat-moss 

 tnndra is sparingly developed in Minnesota. It may l3e de- 

 scrilied as a kind of drv peat-bog. T ha\'e seen isolated and 





Fig. 228. A pitcher plant in flower; tamarack swamp. The leaves are converted into insect- 

 traps. After photograph b^- Hibbard. 



limited peat-moss tundra formations at Lake of the Woods, 

 where, on some of the rockv islands near the Northwest Ansie 



