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alpestris, large, but weathered and twisted C. deformis; cenotea, 

 f. crossota; pleurota, carneola, f. simplex; C. cristatella, f. beau- 

 voisii; and C. gracilis, var. chordalis, f. leucochlora, new to me, 

 with heavily squamulose podetia, and more C. crispata, var. 

 virgata, everywhere one looked. 



This was all very satisfactory collecting, but I hope to make 

 more such trips into Quebec. The northern and higher end of 

 Table Top ought to be good; the coast east of Tadoussac, and 

 some of the higher ridges in the Laurentides National Forest, 

 which would not be hard to reach from Route 54, which climbs 

 straight over many of them, at altitudes up to 3,000 feet, so 

 that one would only have to step out of his car and climb a few 

 hundred feet to the highest points in this scenic region. It 

 would be still better, no doubt, if we could follow all the way in 

 the footsteps of Andre Michaux, up the Saguenay, across Lake 

 St. Jean, up the Mistanissi and Peribonka waters, to the height 

 of land and to the great Lake Mistanissi, emptying into James 

 Bay, which the French botanist-explorer, the first scientist to 

 see it, beheld 142 years ago. 



HoLLis, Queens, N. Y. 



