1907] Fernald,— Soil Preferences of Alpine Plants 181 
TABLE III —continued. 
= 2 
Group I (Plants which, south of the St. Lawrence, are z * z E 
controlled in their Distribution by a Preponderance Bile = g & 
of Potassium in the Soil.) s Sie & 
= 5\6 
Figi2ié 
Stations, and Rocks of the Region from which Potassic Bi 48/3 2 
Soils could be derived. ‘eligifi2ie 
adé'< es 
_ Island, oleae (gneiss 
Webeck Harbor oe rene, syenite : + 
Hopedale, La pam (gneiss, gra ie itl + 
Paul’s Island, Labrador (gneis pe 
Nain, Labrador pais amy ad ad (ae fae = 
Hebron, Labrador (gneiss ") “ e2 
Ungava Bay, Cape Chudleigh, ‘Labrador (gneiss ' a +i+} [+ 
Cum a: ound, Ba oe gneiss, - 
neg pe ae eheryry Strait ( (gneiss, sytiedie i+ +i + 
C. of W; es Ashe’s Inlet, or North Bluff, Hud- 
son Strait taeein iss + 
rn chmond Gulf, Maave (feldspathic argillite, gneiss, ‘ete. 1) + | 
reat Whale River, once (ore) ee ers 
Sta Mistassini, N. orth East Territory (gneiss) . . . . +/+ 
ort Churchill, Hudson Bay (felspathic arkose, ete.”) . i oo he 
Chesterfield Inlet, Hudson Bay e. jit 
t Bear Lake, Mackenzie (granite, gnei ‘ sae 
Fort Resolution, Great Slave ‘ones pri cecal (granite 23) aus 
pr Sia Plains, Athabasca (granite and gneiss *) . ral Ba 
* Dana indicates a ‘‘central Newfoundland range” of Archaean, and “two other 
Tanges farther east,” the only one tego - Bi map running from Despair Bay north- 
t 0 Fogo Island region. map in the Atlas accompanying the re 
ogy of Canada ial the ssuitiestre "datvied of Newfoundland is also indicated a: 
chiefly Arch 
2 “Cette gery ean forét sur laquelle on marche....se trouve en quelques ain 
de la céte, comme & la Pointe-Ouest, par e ple. La, la végétation se présente, en 
, Sous |’ 
effet, so ’ un tapis serré de plantes basses (Arctostaphylos Uva- eins ve i 
nium Vitis-Idaea, Vacciniu n , Ribes oxyacanthoides, Em m 
etc.), formé en outre de tous petits sapins et d’ és....Cette eisabicate 
hous montre ici su ion de lits minces de calcaires argileux le plus souvent peu 
® tre promenade ayant lieu pendant 1 rT, nous ons des 
blocs erratiques, parfois nombreux et dans de petites Kora ssdesmnigae! ae ga et 
la, et sur lesquels nous reviendrons & propos de la période q 
ces blocs sont formé de roches cristallines (granit, gneiss, pberrserieg ete. re = Schimtt, 
Eee ehio del’ Ye dq’ er yginraon 11, ie (1904), 
** With t rrow border of Silurian — on the Strait of Belle — 
another at the mouth of the de River, and a third near the Seven Islands, with the 
of tw rips a fe votiae Murray River and on 
deposits [Laurentian, Beret om s and gneisses] from Labrador to C 
n, 
as Looking - through the bays a . eeu we can see the low conical hills of Lau- 
Tentian gneiss”— Packard, Lab. Coast, 281 (1891). 
