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that region, which still offers large opportunities for botani- 
cal as well as for other kinds of exploration. 
Few localities will better repay the amateur or even the 
professional botanist than this, either in «esthetic gratifi- 
cation or in opportunity for scientific research. Labrador 
is one of the most southerly of all countries that have a 
predominantly Arctic vegetation. It is sufficiently far to 
the south to show transitional belts between the temperate 
and Arctic zones, as well as those more strictly Arctic. Like 
all far northern lands, it presents an amazing wealth of 
strikingly coloured flowers, so thickly sown as in many 
places to resemble a cultivated garden. Add to this the 
exceedingly great picturesqueness of its scenery, its unex- 
plored lofty mountains, higher perhaps than any others on 
the Atlantic side of the Americas, its fairly easy accessibility, 
and the decidedly tolerable nature of its brief summers; 
then its attractiveness and charm to those who know it will 
be easy of comprehension. 
Botanically, Labrador may be considered best by divid- 
ing it into two regions of markedly different aspect, — 
the interior and the coast. Of the former but little is 
known, except that it is covered with trees of good growth, 
extending almost to the northern extreme of the country. 
These interior portions possess essentially a cold temperate, 
not an Arctic, type of flora. Our knowledge of their plants 
is derived mainly from journeys across it in several direc- 
tions by Dr. Low of the Canadian Geological Survey, and 
from the visit of Mr. Bryant to the Grand Falls.’ Its 
’ For these descriptions, see Ann. Rep. Geol. Survey of Canada, 
Part L, Vol. VIII, 1896; and Bulletin of Philadelphia Geographical 
Club, March, 1904. Other earlier expeditions through the interior, 
