1907] Fernald,— Soil Preferences of Alpine Plants 183 
TABLE IlI]—continued. 
aan Ves 3, ER 
| | = 3 
Group II (Plants which, south of the St. Lawrence, are 5) 8 [Sie lg 
controlled in their Distribution by a Preponderance = = S oie 
eatin th tas bos SIS/BBIE 
lelelaisis 
= | ais 
Stations, and Rocks - the Region from which Calcareous 1s) 2 FS 9 3 
Soils could be derived, Sialal ele 
<RGAE 
Pop pee 
Bay of ope to Cape Norman, Newfoundland seen: " I+] faa la 
Antico estone ce een Veal bess ae ad G2 
Mingan Tikaas, Quebec (limestone *) es Bl a (a) 0 os 
F au Bay, Labra dor (limestone *) 2) t+) fAi+ 
Chateau Bay, Labrador (basalt, trap ) 1 [+] | t+ 
Battle Harbor, Labrador (trap, ete. rere 
I — He rbor, Labrador (doleritic trap ‘containing labra- a 4 | Be 
ers 
Hopedal ale, Labrador —— ‘trap, labradorite 8) |+) +] |+|+ 
Paul’s Isla. nd and Nain, Labrador (labradorite, gabbro, Get a ee 
anorthosite a ft a 
Kaumajet Mis. Okkak to Cape Mugford, Labrador (diabase, ne 
limestone ! i+} +} + 
Saal its, Hebron, to Nachvak Bay, Labrador ‘(diabase, ee eg 
limes ealespa Go sg oad 
sev Has Cape Chudleigh Labrador(dolomite, imestone") +) |+/+ 
Grinnell Land (limeston ; +| |+| 
Cape Sabine, Smith eaad (limestone a) : Sa A 1 lei +) 
Jones Sound, Ellesmere Land (limestone My | [+ [+] 
Cumberland Sound, Baffin Land (Mi e Laurentian gk I+|+| 
ce of Wales and Ashe’s Inlet, or N Bhies 
n Strait (dolomite, limestones, ealespa 4a cd +| 
Mansfield Island, Hudson Bay (limestone 1”) Bo han bas ene 
— = James Ba ay, Moses Factory to ig aie House ime- | | _ re 
Fort °Ch urchill, Hi n Bay (limestones * 2) fone 4 | a la 
Melville Island  (inestone calcareous daene™ PA aa A bo ab oh 
FP ackenzie River ining gb ere | er 
Great Slave tos Mackenzie (limestone 2) iS GE ae 
Het fee 
*“On the opposite side [Of the Strait of Belle Isle], the shore of Newfoundland 
occupied by a series of limestones, apparently of Calciferous age... .they stretch along 
the coast for upwards of a hundred miles.”— Logan, Geol. Can. 288 aon 
These and other limestones are Cae in succeeding pages and shown in the accom- 
Panying Atlas southward to Bay St. Geo 
* Anticosti Island is composed o ¢ Silurian rocks, chiefly seprggr which are dis- 
Cussed in detail in Logan’s Geology of Canada, Chapters x and xi also Sehinitt, 
Monographie de l’ Tle d’ Anticosti, 65-99 (1904). In view of a . setiesd impression 
that Sphagnum does not occur in calcareous regions and of its abundance in certain 
