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Sometimes the flowers are just sticking out of the ground. In 
places there are flat green patches covered with grasses, sedges, and 
rushes. The most common of these are Lieschaumpsi a caespitosa , 
Cargx rigida , var. bigiovia , and juneus trifid a. Thelbiliberry 
(Vaccinium uliginosafajwas very abundant and one was suprised to see 
such quantities of blue, bright.berries in so barren a region. 
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The mountain cranberry (Empetrum nigrum) were common, and these 
vanities of blue, black, and red berries when gathered and stewed 
with a liberal allowance of sugar made an appetizing sauce. Other 
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plants wlx*^ distinctly alpine and are more or less common on the 
summit, are willow (Salix uva-ursa), bearberry (Arctsostaphylos 
alpina) , golden rod (Solidago vigaurea, var. alpma), mountain sandwort 
(Arenaria groenlandica) ana club moss (Lycopodium seiago). Llosses 
are oommoh under and between rocks, and black and yellow lichens^ the 
granite boulders. The following list of plants grow on the mountain 
All of these were observed after I had climbed some distance. Around 
the base of the mountain can be found all of the plants common 
to the nothern part of the state. 
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