Gray, nor, when we got back home, in Britton & Brown. So we 

 sent a photograph by Louis Anderson, to Prof. Fernald, who 

 kindly named it as Slatice labradorica, var. siibmutica, a member 

 of the Plumbaginaceae . Prof Fernald referred me to the descrip- 

 tion of the species of this genus in America by S. F. Blake in 

 Rhodora for January, 1917, years after the publication of our 

 standard manuals on eastern flora, in which he names this form 

 on Mount Albert as a new variety, submutica. 



Near the contact of the red amphibolite and the greenish 

 serpentized peridotite, which makes up the central bulk of 

 Mount Albert, along the first two branches of the brook, we 

 found another rarity, a stiff little fern, whose affinity with 

 Pellaea or Cryptogramma was evident. It proved to be what 

 Gray called Cryptogramma densa, although Fernald lists it in 

 his memoir as Pellaea densa. Again, it occurs only in Gaspe and 

 the Bruce Peninsula in the east, though found in many stations 

 in the mountains of the northwestern United States and western 

 Canada. It is another of the key plants, according to Dr. Fer- 

 nald, indicating persistence of pre-glacial flora in spots that 

 escaped the great glaciations. 



Getting above the spruce and fir, and out upon the open 

 slopes of thin sod and open gravel, we came on some plants 

 known to us from alpine summits such as Mount Washington 

 and Mount Katahdin; heaths such as Ledum groenlandicum, 

 Phyllodoce caerulea, Empetrum nigrum, Loiseleuria procumbens, 

 and Cassiope hypnoides. A mountain sandwort, something like 

 Arenaria groenlandica of farther south, proved, from Dr. 

 Fernald's determination, to be A. marcescens. The beautiful 

 low Moss Campion, Silene acaulis, is common above 2,500 feet 

 on Albert, but we were late for its best blooming, finding flowers 

 only on plants near the summit. On the table land, slanting 

 from the highest point at the south end, toward the abrupt 

 walls of the valley of the Riviere du Diable ("Devil's Gulch"), 

 we found larger ice fields than those on the southern slopes. One 

 was several acres in extent, melting around its edges, with icy 

 rills entering a tiny lake bordered by a meadow. Around the 

 edge of the ice, little willows, probably Salix brachycarpa, from 

 Prof. Fernald's lists, were just coming into bloom, with the 

 pollen bright yellow on the tiny, silvery haired catkins. Summer 

 comes late and last but a few weeks about these ice fields; the 



