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gence from the readers of this account. But if this be 
generously extended, the writer permits himself to hope 
that, however inadequate his description may be and how- 
ever subject to later correction, it may serve largely to 
increase the enjoyment of visitors to this fascinating 
country, by enabling them to understand more fully the 
great interest and attractiveness of its plant life. 
Some few visitors to Labrador return with an impres- 
sion that it is a bleak and forbidding country, rude, cruel, 
unattractive, bare of vegetation. But to many others it 
seems full of beauty, of attractiveness, and even of a rich 
and appealing fertility. The latter is the truer view, for 
it is the one gained by those who observe with more seeing 
eyes. Really, the wealth and variety and brilliancy of the 
Labrador growths and flowers are very striking to one who 
can see them at all understandingly. Very little knowl- 
edge of botany and love of plants are needed to realize this 
fact. An added ability to recognize and name the more 
common forms naturally increases enormously one’s ap- 
preciation and satisfaction, and is not difficult to acquire. 
It is as important for real enjoyment and profit as to possess 
a similar outline knowledge of the geological forms of the 
Jand and of the causes that have moulded its scenic features. 
It will not cost a great amount of additional labour to gain 
an even more intimate understanding of the plants, — of 
Misstassinica, Gentiana propinqua, Pedicularis flammea, Polyganum 
littorale, Betula nana, Luzula arcuata, L. hyperborea, Eriophorum 
alpinum, Poa lara, Lycopodium lucidulum; omit also, but leave the 
synonym given with it: Comarum palustre, Potentilla rubens. Ina 
majority of cases these corrections do not imply that the plants thus 
called in this and earlier lists do not exist in Labrador, but that it is 
now possible to give them more accurate names. 
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