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By way of comparison we may take Port Kennedy, more than 

 two degrees further south, where Dr. Walker collected forty-five 

 flowering plants*. Dr. Philpotts's species in Bethuue Bay and 

 neighbourhood are thirty-five ; the following occur in the latter 

 locality which are not in the Port Kennedy list, viz. : 



Stellaria longipes, Goldie. Trisetum subspicatum, P. JB. 



Vaccinium uliginosum, L. Phippsia algida, Br. 



Salix herbacea, Z. Poa alpina, Z. 

 Deschampsia alpina, Z. 



There were very few Mosses collected at Port Kennedy ; and 

 therefore no comparison can be made. 



The species recorded here are thirty-one; and it is worthy of 



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note that of these only five had fruit, and that very sparingly, 

 viz. : — Gynodontium virens, O* poli/carj)um, Ortliotrichumarcticum^ 



Bryum j^urpurascens^ and B. cdlopTiyllum ; all these are monoecious. 



The other monoecious S2)ecies, without fruit, are Sphagnum acuti- 



folium^ ScJiistidium apocarpum^ Splachnum Wormshioldii^ Webera 



cruday Timmia Austriaca, Orthothecium cJiryseiwi, Ilypnum Som- 



merfeltiiy H, Jluitans, H, reptile^ II, salehrostim. The remaining 

 sixteen dioecious species were in the same condition ; no capsules 

 in any obvious stage were seen. Thirty-one species of Lichens are 

 here recorded; thirty-six were found at Port Kennedy. 



Dr. Philpotts made several attempts at dredging ; these failed 

 in consequence of ice and currents : the number of Alga) is there- 

 fore small ; some were found floating, others attached ; all, with 



two exceptions are widely difi*used, the only truly northern species 

 being Sphacelaria arctica and PolysipJionia arctica ; the former was 



discovered by Dr. Lyall at Disco t, and was also found by Mr. 

 Taylor J in Cumberland Sound ; it now appears to range beyond 

 74^ N. lat. Numerous Diatomacese occur on Dr. Philpotts's Algae, 

 and he collected masses from Ice-floes consisting of the same 

 microscopic organisms ; these, with otliers from various parts of 

 Davis Straits, may form the subject of a future communication, 



* Journal of Linnean Society, vol. v. (Botany) p. 79. 



t Harvey in ' Nereis Boreali -Americana/ part. iii. p. 124. 



\ Journal of Linnean Society, Botany, vol, ix. p. 238. 



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