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nunatak area, refuge of a Tertiary flora above the last ice 

 sheets. 



Here one of the interesting finds, as also at Tadoussac, a 

 few days later, was a Cladonia which looked like alpestris, but 

 on which Dr. Evans reported as follows: 



"These certainly look like C. alpestris, but give a distinct re- 

 action with P, [paraphenylenediamine] much more pronounced 

 than the pale yellowish color obtained with C. pynoclada [a 

 species also resembling alpestris, which I have been seeking for 

 Dr. Evans]. Dr. Sandstede has recently sent me an antarctic 

 specimen collected by Hariot in the Magellan region. This was 

 determined by Vainio as C. pycnoclada, f. flavida (Mon. 1: 39). 

 It gives, however, a distinct reaction with P and, according to 

 Dr. Sandstede, has a bitter taste. He states that it ought to be 

 separated out as a distinct species. Your specimens are more 

 compact than the antarctic material, and I should hesitate to 

 pronounce them the same. I have sent samples of both your 

 plants to Dr. Sandstede and am anxious to hear what he has to 

 say about them." 



Another odd one looked like C. crispata, but was P yellow, 

 unlike the reaction of that species. It has also gone to Dr. Sand- 

 stede. C. crispata, var. virgata, which is quite northern, was 

 present; also a form new to me, f. kairamoi, more densely clus- 

 tered and squamulose, virgata being smooth. C. amaurocraea 

 was frequent, in the forms oxyclada and furcatiformis, and one, 

 covered with galls, indistinguishable as to form. Other Cla- 

 doniae were C. rangiferina, f. stygia; pleurota, gracilis, var. 

 chordalis; squamosa, digitata, carneola, uncialis and niitis. 



On our departure from the high Shickshocks, we climbed 

 over the bare summits of Mount Sterling, which, though only 

 3,150 feet, has much surface above timber, in loose slides, of 

 unglaciated rock, and which gives magnificent views of Table 

 Top, Mount Albert with its snow fields, and the gorge of the St. 

 Anne River. On the summit were C. amaurocraea, ff. furcati- 

 formis and oxyclada; coccifera, var. stemmatina; gracilis, var. 

 chordalis; uncialis, squamosa, and crispata, var. virgata. 



Descending one of the slides, to the wagon road, handsome 

 scarlet fruited C. pleurota, with crowded, red- tipped stipes 

 around the rims of the cups, was frequent; also more C. amauro- 

 craea, ff. furcatiformis , and oxyclada; C. gracilis, var. elongata, 



