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covered with dense colonies of lichens, especially of the genus 

 Cladonia, of which the following have been determined, with 

 the aid of Dr. A. W. Evans, of Vale University. 



Cladonia cenotea, f. crossota; C. cormila, ff. scyphora and cy- 

 lindrida, with tall slender podetia; C.coryiuloradiata, resembling 

 cornuta, but branching; C. dejormis, mostly f. crenidata, very 

 robust and handsome; C. gracilis, var. dilatata, uncommonly 

 robust; C. major, with large cups; C. cristatella, f. Beauvoisii, 

 our familiar red-crested Cladonia, but much taller and larger- 

 fruited than in the club range; C. digitata, f. monstrosa, a form 

 with large, irregularly-branched cups and large, flat, scarlet 

 apothecia. Other Cladoniae whiich occur in the club range, but 

 are usually more robust in Gaspe, were: C. chlorophaea, conio- 

 craea, flf. ceratodes, truncata and pycnotheliza; squamosa, f. levi- 

 coticata, mm. pseiidocrispata and rigida; rangiferina, alpestris^ 

 mitis, ochlochlora, nemoxyna, and multiformis , f. Finkii. A little 

 C. botrytis, a rare species, was found, but closer search should 

 yield more of this, now recorded from Gaspe, Mount Marcy 

 and British Columbia, and a very few other places in North 

 America. 



Growing over banks of Hylocomnium proliferum, which is 

 the common moss of the forest at 2,000-2,500 feet, were large 

 colonies of a beautiful grayish-green foliose lichen, somewhat 

 resembling Peltigera, but which Mrs. Gladys P. Anderson 

 named for us as Nephroma arcticum, a northern species. 



After passing over the height of land and descending toward 

 the Isabelle, we began to get views of the upper levels of Mount 

 Albert, steep and imposing, and, to our surprise, with frequent 

 snowfields at the heads of brook gullies. The black humus of 

 the trail was trodden with moose hoofprints, and in places not 

 cut up by the moose, we saw the footprints of bear in the mud. 

 These large animals, together with caribou, must be common, 

 from their tracks, but we saw none of them on our three days in 

 the woods, nor did we hear any sound of them during the night, 

 in our tent along the brook. 



Next morning, a fine sunny day, (the temperature fell to 50^ 

 during the night but rose to above 70° in the afternoon) we 

 started for the table land of Mount Albert. We had been cross- 

 ing the limy shales and sandstones which prevail in the region, 

 and which sometimes display plant fossils, casts of a Lepido- 



