118 Rhodora [JULY 
The next move was a double one, Wiegand and Kidder taking the 
‘‘Home” north to Cow Head in the Silurian limestones north of St. 
Paul’s Bay, Kittredge and I making a first attack upon the serpentine 
barren which, five miles west of Birchy Cove, forms the northeastern 
flank of the Blomidon (with some propriety corrupted to ‘‘Blow-me- 
down’’) Range. We went with keen anticipations, for this serpentine 
barren from the distance looked so like a reduced Mt. Albert that we 
felt it inevitable that it should yield the plants which in Gaspé dis- 
tinguish the serpentine from all the other mountains. And we were 
in no way disappointed. Here was Mt. Albert all over again; and 
during the whole summer we did not have a closer day’s work than 
on that single day in late July when, starting soon after sunrise, we 
tramped in to the mountain from Benoit’s Cove in a heavy thunder 
storm which rendered more obscure an overgrown trail, climbed up 
to the tableland (plate 87, fig. 3) botanizing all the way, came down 
over a snow-field at the risk of our lives as it proved, thus teaching 
us a valuable lesson in mountaineering, and returned before dark 
five miles through the woods to Benoit’s Cove. Our boxes and 
riick-sacks were crowded full and Mr. Albert,! the great serpentine 
tableland of Gaspé, will be suggested in the plants we had found: 
Adiantum pedatum L., var. aleuticum Rupr., first recognized in eastern 
America on Mt. Albert, occurring in the Selkirks, according to Pro- 
fessor F. K. Butters, only on a serpentine ridge, and similarly, accord- 
ing to Professor John Macoun, found on Vancouver Island only on 
the serpentine or other magnesian rocks; Danthonia intermedia Vasey, 
unknown elsewhere in the East except on Mt. Albert; Festuca sca- 
brella Torr., recently confused with F. altaica Trin. and heretofore 
known in eastern America only on Mt. Albert where it abounds; 
Iychnis alpina L., otherwise unknown south of Labrador except 
on Mt. Albert and along Coal or Serpentine River in Newfoundland, 
which takes its name from the serpentine rocks of the Blomidon 
Range and the Lewis Hills; Arenaria arctica Stev. (ditto); Arenarta 
ciliata L., var. humifusa Hornem. (ditto), a plant identical with A. 
norvegica Gunn. which in the British Isles has but two stations, one 
in the Orkneys (soil not stated), the other on a serpentine hill on one 
of the Shetland Islands? ; Statice sibirica (Turcz.) Ledeb. (Mt. Albert) 
1See Ruopora, ix. 155, 158, etc. (1907) 
See Edmundston, Flora of Shetland, xv (1845); also Syme, English Bot. fi. 104 
(1873), where it is stated (105) that A. ciliata (true) occurs on calcareous cliffs. 
