Child (1957) 3. Plant Community 2 July Pitmegea River, Cape Sabine, Alaska. b. Under deepest snow banks the cover is mostly mosses and lichens with Salix plebophylla and Salix reticulata. 3.* alluvial Dry Meadow. This community is found on the gravelly alluvial materials of younger terraces. Dryas integrifolia, Salix spp. (shrubs < 1 ft. tall and dwarf), Androsace obamaejaame, Oxytropis microsperma, Antennia spp., Atrypalus spp., and several grasses. 4.* Dry meadow on peat. Rubus chamaemorus and Vaccinium vitis-idea. III. WET MEADOWS. 1. Moundy wet meadow: (symbol A-4). This is found predominantly on slopes and is associated with upland Tundra soils. Dominant plants are Carex bigelowii, Salix plebophylla, Dryas integrifolia aretea gratiois latifolia, Luzula spp. Silene acaule, Arenaria macrocarpa on the mound tops. The fenetes in between have mosses and herbs belonging to tussock meadows or even sedge meadow a) This type can also occur with slight modification in species composition on peats (half bog or bog soils).