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of Professor i\. P. Coleman of McGill University, authority on 

 the glacial geology of the region, whose work we used on the 

 trip. Capt. Cote proudly showed us letters of appreciation from 

 all three scientists and was pleased that we knew of him. 



Next day we followed the fire road toward Lake Madeleine, 

 around the south and west slopes of Mount Sterling, to our 

 camp on Fisher Branch of the River Madeleine, within sight of 

 Tabletop. Along the road at several places, a new and handsome 

 fern was Phegopteris Robertiana, with fronds somewhat like 

 those of P. dryopteris, but stiffer and with smaller lateral pinnae. 

 Another new plant was Lonicera involucrata, with large bracts. 

 We also saw large colonies of the handsome foliose lichen, 

 Nephroma arcticum, with disks large as nickels. 



Our base camp was prettily located, and next morning, we 

 started up Tabletop. Harrison, our head guide, had spotted a 

 route part way but at the top of the climb he made the trail 

 fresh before us, as fast as we wished to go, a novel experience of 

 seeing a trail blazed and cleared before our eyes. He took us 

 across the plateau and at length above the scrub spruce and fir 

 to an open summit south of Mount Richardson, the highest 

 summit on this part of the Tabletop Plateau. Interesting plants 

 were Lycopodium Selago and sahinaefolium; Phyllodoce caerulea, 

 as well as Vacciniwns ,Empeirum , Ledum and Cassiope hypnoides. 

 For those of us who were on Mount Albert the year before, it 

 was interesting to note that some plants which evidently prefer 

 the serpentine rocks of that summit do not like the granite of 

 Tabletop, such as Lychnis alpina, Statice lahradorica, var. 

 suhmutica, and Adiantum pedatum-, var. aleuticum, none of 

 which we found in the vicinity of Mount Richardson. However 

 the lichen Rhizocarpon geographicum, characteristic of northern 

 mountain tops, which we looked for in vain on Mount Albert's 

 serpentine ledges in 1936 was plentiful on the Tabletop granite. 



On the way out we climbed over Sterling Mountain, on 

 which Cladoniae, especially gorgeously scarlet fruited Cladonia 

 pleurota, f. coronata, were numerous. The views were grand, 

 with the snowfields on Mount Albert gleaming in the north. At 

 one point the road had been carried away for a hundred yards 

 by a slide, and there our guides had to unhitch the horses, lead 

 them gently across the narrow spot, take the wagon apart and 

 carry it across in pieces and put it together again on the other 

 side., gather up our duffel and go on. 



