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most everywhere we went we found the curlew-berry {Em- 

 petrum nigrum) and the so-called caribou-moss (Cladonia, 

 really a 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 Ericaccce. Some of them 

 are berry-bearing, with inconspicuous flowers, particularly 

 the blueberry {Vaccinium Peimsylvanicum and V. uligi- 

 nosum), the mountain cranberry {V. Vitis-Idcea), and the 

 bearberry {Arctostaphylos alpina). Others have more prom- 

 inent flowers, such as the omnipresent Labrador tea 

 {Ledum), together with the somewhat less universal Loise- 

 leuria 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 colorings. There is also 

 a large number of other plants that are constantly met with, 

 though few of them are so nearly omnipresent and con- 

 tinuous as are most of those already mentioned. The bake- 

 apple or cloudberry (Rubus ChamcBmorus) 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- 



