150 Rhodora 
Mountains, on the naked- raped mountains of Maing, on Mt. Albert 
and Table-top Mt. in ee on the rocks of Mt. Desert Island and — 
words, south of the St. Lawrence ab it ani is ‘solakee in its 
distribution, occurring only on the higher mountain-summits 
on cold coastal rocks or bogs. North of the St. Lawrence, howevel, — 
it becomes one of the commonest of plants, “ abundant throughout te ~ 
semi-barren and barren regions of the [Labrador] peninsula, grow 
freely on the coast and inland,”! and according to De 
“the most abundant phenogamous plant of Labrador.’” : 
Labrador Peninsula and Baffin Land it grows, according to Macout 
“along the north shore of Lake Superior, and at Port Arthur, 1g : : 
on exposed rocks along the shores, and on basren grounds to 
Pacific Ocean and Arctic Sea.”* From the Arctic it extends — 
on cliffs to the coast of northern California. It is also on the mou 
tains of southern British Columbia, and locally in W. ashing 
it grows in arctic-alpine regions of Eurasia. Rubus Cha 
the Baked-apple of the coastal region of eastern Maine, southern Ni 
Brunswick and Nova Scotia, is also on the higher White Mts. of 
Hampshire and the adjacent high peaks of western Maine, but 
known on other New England mountains; locally on bogs of 
couata and Rimouski Counties, Quebec, and on Table Mi. } 
coming south along the Coast Range to the region of Sitka. 
other characteristic plants of the isolated alpine or colder area’ 
rae Low, Report on phely roca in the Labrador Penninsula: Geol. Surv. Cal 
Sin n. s. viii, 40 L, 
_ ? Delabarre, Bull eee fe Wes & beostn002 
3 Macoun, Cat Cat. Can. Pl i, 458 (1886). 
aes e ©. 388 1 (1896). 
