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and Solidago multiradiata Ait., the common Arctic American repre- 
sentative of the Virgaurea group. 
We were still putting our exciting collections into press when the 
“Home” returned from the North bringing Wiegand with his Cow 
Head material — practically all the calciphiles of the Humber River 
marbles and some not met before: Botrychium Lunaria, a species 
which abounds locally in calcareous gravels and beaches or on damp 
turfy slopes around much of the Gulf of St. Lawrence, often attaining 
splendid proportions (2-2.5 dm. high, with the sterile lamina 6-7 cm. 
long); Poa alpina and P. eminens, two of the handsomest of the genus; 
Salix Pseudo-myrsinites Anderss., a frequent species in the Canadian 
Rockies and on the Gaspé limestones; one of the puzzling Scurvy 
Grasses (Cochlearia anglica L.); Draba incana L. and its var. confusa 
Ehrh.) Poir. which are familiar to those who have been at Percé 
in eastern Quebec; Arabis alpina L.; Saxifraga caespitosa L.; Par- 
nassia parviflora; Oxytropis campestris DC., var. caerulea Koch, a 
singularly misnamed plant since its flowers are crimson or “rose- 
purple ’’ and, like those of many other Leguminosae, become blue only 
when dry; and Hedysarum alpinum L., a larger-flowered plant than 
our variety ' of Gaspé, the St. John River, and Willoughby, which, 
as maintained more than a century ago by Michaux and more recently 
by Fedtschenko? and by Ostenfeld,’ certainly cannot be separated 
specifically from the Siberian H. alpinum. But the plant which upon 
first discovery was most interesting was a beautiful blue gentian, 
new to us as well as to the Gray Herbarium, Gentiana nesophila Holm, 
a species heretofore supposed to grow only on Anticosti, but after our 
first introduction found to be a common plant on the limestones of 
western Newfoundland as far north and south as we explored — Pointe 
Riche at the north, Port 4 Port at the south. In fact this gentian, 
which abounds on the limy gravels and in damp spots about Ingor- 
nachoix Bay and the foot of Bay St. John, was undoubtedly seen by 
la Pylaie who in that region found “une gentiane voisine du pneu- 
monanthe.”’ 
Now came the longest flight, the whole party like the Newfoundland 
fishermen migrating to the Labrador — not very far into Labrador, 
but north of the Straits of Belle Isle and east of the Canadian bound- 
ase neue eMeghan americanum Michx. FI. ii. 74 (1803). H. boreale Nutt. Gen. 
- H. americanum Britton, Mem. Torr. Bot. Cl. v. 201 (1894). 
edtschenko: Generis Hedysari revisio. Act. Hort. Petrop. xix. 253-258 (1901). 
* Ostenfeld: Vascular Plants collected in Arctic North America by the Gjéa Expedi- 
tion. Vidensk. Selsk. Skrift. I Klasse, No. viii. 55, 56 (1909) 
