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f. esquamosa; C. squamosa, uncialis, carneola and my wide-flung 

 friend of early lichen hunting, C. cristalella, ff. heauvoisii and 

 vestita. 



Along the wagon road were found C. gracilis, var. dilatata; 

 C. cenotea, f. crossota; C. chlorophaea, f. simplex; C. mitis, and 

 C. crispata, var. virgala. 



A low granite knob, between the two steamboat landings at 

 Tadoussac, where we awaited the boat up the Saguenay River, 

 disclosed some interesting things in a couple of hours' collecting. 

 Here was plenty of C. amaurocraea, in forms previously known 

 to me and found earlier on this trip, ff. fiircatijormis, and oxy- 

 clada; but also a new one, f. fasciculata, a puzzling one, with 

 densely fascicled clumps, looking like C. uncialis, but with 

 cups and rather large brown apothecia, thus unlike any form of 

 uncialis; and with a cracked cortex and cottony medulla 

 showing through. Also here was the species I thought alpestris, 

 but which Dr. Evans thought possibly pycnoclada, subject to 

 Dr. Sandstede's opinion. C. gracilis, var. chordalis ; C. mitis, 

 tenuis, hacillaris and squamosa were also present. The richness 

 of this association suggests that this part of the north shore of 

 the St. Lawrence, from Tadoussac along the new road only re- 

 cently opened into a sparsely settled country eastward to Port 

 Neuf, would be worth exploring intensively on another trip. 



Turning southward across the Laurentides National Park, 

 a rough plateau, from 1,500 to 3,000 feet, I found many places 

 which appeared to have been burned years ago and were now 

 returning in scattered spruce and fir, with much bare, tundra- 

 like surface, richly covered with robust Cladoniae. C. crispata, 

 var. virgata was very common, more than I ever saw elsewhere. 

 Cladonia deformis was also frequent and of large size. Others, at 

 a station near the Upika River, were: C. mitis, rangiferina, 

 alpestris; gracilis, var. chordalis; cornuta, ff. cylindrica and 

 scyphosa (which is also common along the mine road along the 

 Cascapedia in Gaspe), and uncialis. 



Farther south, on Route 54, to Quebec, at Porte de L'Enfer 

 (Hell Gate), where the Jacques Cartier River gathers between 

 high ridges, open, once badly burned spaces among the conifers 

 were covered with dense carpets of Cladoniae, in which C. 

 crispata, var. virgata was often dominant; also f. dilacerata; C. 

 gracilis, var. chordalis; C. uncialis, rangiferina, mitis, f. tenuis; 



