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white lichen) together forming an almost continuous green 

 and gray sward, touched with red in the autumn. The 

 berries of the curlew are exceedingly numerous, and those 

 of the previous season still cling thickly to the vine among 

 the green new ones, and even until the latter begin to ripen 

 in the middle of August. In the midst of this continuous 

 curlew and moss grow occasional clumps of grasses of many 

 kinds, and a great variety of flowering plants. Perhaps 

 the most common of the latter are the Ericacece. Some of 

 them are berry-bearing, with inconspicuous flowers, par- 

 ticularly the blueberry (V actinium Pennsylvanicum and 

 V. uliginosum), the mountain cranberry (V. Vitis-Idcea), 

 and the bearberry (Arctostaphylos alpina). Others have 

 more prominent flowers, such as the omnipresent Labrador 

 tea (Ledum), together with the somewhat less universal 

 Loiseleuria and Bryanthus. These are all exceedingly 

 abundant in the southern half of the peninsula, but extend 

 variously far to the north. The white clusters of the 

 Ledum and the purple umbels of the Bryanthus are very 

 conspicuous. In the autumn, the red-turning leaves of the 

 Arctostaphylos are the most attractive of the season's 

 colourings. There is also a large number of other plants 

 that are constantly met with, though few of them are so 

 nearly omnipresent and continuous as are most of those 

 already mentioned. The bake-apple, or cloudberry (Rubus 

 Chamcemorus) grows thickly as far north as Hebron, but 

 very thinly beyond. We could find but very few of its ripe 

 berries in Labrador, though in Newfoundland they seem 

 to be common. Associated with its single white flowers 

 are frequently seen the showy, rose-coloured ones of the 

 Arctic raspberry (Rubus arcticus) . This also, so far as our 

 experience could determine, had about the same limits and 

 was equally rare in fruit . Bunch-berry (Cornus Canadensis) 

 is likewise very common, especially in the south, and grows 

 in thick groups. Dense tufts of the white-flowered Dia- 

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