348 PROP. T. M. FRIES ON THE LICHENS 



Properly speaking, these lichens form two collections, one 

 gathered by Captain EL W. Feilden, H.M.S. ' Alert,' the other 

 by Mr. H. C. Hart, H.M.S. ' Discovery.' As the two vessels, for 

 the greatest part of the time, were in different places, the speci- 

 mens were collected in a great number of localities — a circumstance 

 which adds much to our knowledge of the lichen-vegetation of 

 those regions. The lichens collected by Mr. Hart are from the 

 following places : — 



N. lat. N. lat. 



Cape York 6 75° 56' Hannah Island, Bessel 



Port Foulke 78° 18' 19" Bay 81° T 



Cape Sabine 78° 40' 45" Polaris Bay 81° 30' 35" 



Alexandra Haven .... 78° 50' 55" Discovery Harbour. 



Hayes Sound ...... 79°-/9° ^5' Archer's Cairn . . . . I q « Acy a^' 



Walrus Island, Frank- Mount Stephenson . 



lin-Pierce Bay .... 79° 23' Mount Discovery . . 



Dobbin Bay 79° 45' 50" 



The collections of Capt. Feilden are from : 



N. lat. N. lat. 



Cape Sabine , . . 78° 40' 45" Crossing Harbour 



Payer Harbour 78° 40' 45" (North Greenland).. 82° 16' 



Brevoort Island .... 78° 47' Floeberg Beach . . . . ) goo oft 30" 



Norman-Lockyer Is- The Dean Mountainf \ 



land 79° 23' Black-Cliffs Bay .... 82 31' 



Lincoln Bay 82° 8' Egerton Valley 82 40' 



Cape Union* 82° 15' Westward-Ho ! Valley 82 41' 



"Besides there is one species, GyropJiora cylindrica ft, gathered 

 by Lieutenant Pelham Aldrich on the shore of " the palseo- 

 crystic sea/' the northernmost spot trodden by man, viz. Cape 

 Columbia, situated 83° 6 f 30", north lat. 



That such material ought to be elaborated is evident. Indeed, 

 I dare say that it has taken much more time and pains than is to 

 be supposed from the list of species given below. Every speci- 

 men in the collection, every morsel (great or little) of stone, wood, 

 or bone, every little piece, from a tuft of moss, has been closely 



* " The lichens I collected in Cape Union were from its highest point, an al- 

 titude of 1200 feet. It was on the 28th April ; I rer 



occasion 



for my fingers were much frost-bitten whilst gathering them." (Capt. Feilden, 



in litt.) 



t " The Dean Mountain lies inland from ' Alert's ' winter-quarters some six 

 or seven English miles, rising to an altitude of about 1400 feet. It is composed 

 of hard indurated dark slates, thrown up at various angles, in some places the 

 strata being vertical " (ibid.). 



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