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

 tundra is sparingly developed in Minnesota. It may be de- 

 scribed as a kind of dry peat-bog. I have seen isolated and 



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

 traps. After photograph by Hibhard. 



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

 where, on some of the rocky islands near the Northwest Angle 



