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were great clumps of Dryopteris Filix-mas and Polystichum Brauni, 
with here and there P. Lonchitis on the shaded limestone shingle. 
Vaccinium ovalifolium, abundant from Alaska to California and 
also on the Shickshock Mts. of Gaspé, was common on the hill-tops, 
as was Galium kamtschaticum in cold ravines; and typical Valeriana 
sylvatica Banks (smaller in all parts than our V. uliginosa) was occa- 
sionally found. Singularly enough each bog and wet woodland glade 
seemed to have its own specialty: in one Bartonia iodandra, a species 
known only in Newfoundland and Cape Breton; in another Uéri- 
cularia clandestina, heretofore unknown east of New Brunswick; 
in another a perplexing Euphrasia, Rhinanthus, or Senecio. Along 
- the railway were strange weeds, the most interesting of them perhaps 
being the Fairy Flax, Linum catharticum, with white flowers and 
opposite leaves, both unusual characters in the genus, and the hand- 
some thistle, Cirsium palustre, which was afterward seen at points 
more than fifty miles apart. 
‘pon the arrival of our driers, presses and old clothes, it was de- 
cided that Kidder and I should undertake a trip across the Island 
by way of the East Branch of the Humber River and Indian Brook 
to Notre Dame Bay. We went by train to a point east of Howley 
whence we could easily reach the Humber system at the Goose Ponds. 
This region was in the midst of a Carboniferous sandstone area, and I 
was delighted to find myself actually camping on a sandy and boggy 
barren such as we had so long watched from the train between Cape 
Ray and the head of Bay St. George. Here was the flora we had seen 
from the train, but quite unlike that of the calcareous Silurian region 
about the head of the Bay of Islands. Except for the nearly endemic 
Eriophorum callitrix, var. erubescens Fernald and Betula nana L., 
var. Michauxii (Spach) Regel and the everywhere abundant Cala- 
magrostis Pickeringii, we might have been on the barren coast of 
eastern New England, and the chief botanical excitement came from 
adding to the list of Newfoundland plants such treasures as Dryop- 
teris cristata, Lycopodium clavatum, var. megastachyon Fernald & 
Bissell, L. complanatum, Scheuchzeria palustris, Panicum implicatum, 
Carex trisperma, var. Billingsii, C. polygama and limosa, Listera 
auriculata, Salix lucida, var. intonsa and S. pedicellaris, var. hypo- 
glauca Fernald ?; while I tried to rouse enthusiasm over Pinus resinosa, 
1 Ruopora, xii. 53 (1910). Ruopora, xi. 161 (1909). 
