34 REVUE BRYOLOGIQUE 



it will be possible to give a more complete account of tbe 



results of my journey. 



I undertook the journey as a member of a great Swedish 

 expedition, brought about" by the indefatigable explorer of 

 the arctic regions. Professor J?. A. NordenskjoM, The expe- 

 dition consisted of two parties, of which one was to go by 

 sea, the other by laud ; both were lo join in the autumn at 

 the mouth of the Jenisei and thus united to return by sea to 

 Sweden. The land party, which was fitted out at the expense 

 of the rich merchant 0. Dickson and to which I also be- 

 longed, consisted of 5 members, viz. 3 zoologists, among 

 which Doctor Ilj, Thud was the chief of this party, and two 

 Ijotanists (Rector Brenner from Hclsingfors and the under- 

 signed). To me it was allotted to collect Thanerogamae and 

 Filices in company with Rector Brenner and alone to pay my 

 attention to musci and Algae. It is s:arcely necessary to toll. 

 that I was easily persuaded upon to join the expedition, as 

 I Thereby got an unexpected opportunity to explore the moss 

 vegetation in regions, hitherto almost perfectly unknown to 

 the bryologists. 



On the 2yth of May the landparty started from Stockholm, 

 and, going on as swiftly as possible, reached Rrasnojarskby 

 the Jenisei on the 8lh of June. In this journey we bad the 

 opportunity to make some short, but very interesting ex- 

 cursions on the limestone-rocks in the environs of Kungur 

 (in the government of Perm) and on the banks of the river- 

 system of the Ob. The latter excursions were made during 

 the long voyage we had to make by steamboat in the above 

 mentioned river system. The collections, made in these ex- 

 cursions, may, although incomplete, be considered of some 

 value as giving some information of the mossvegetation in 

 regions which are hitherto a « terra incognita » to the bryo- 

 logists ; besides more common mosses. I, moreover, col- 

 lected some species of a greater interest as for instance by 

 Muw^nx Ihjpnura p67//e5c^n5and interesting species of S^/i;?^^'^^^ 

 Bryum, Biccia, Marchantiaceae, etc.; from the Ob may in the 

 first place be mentioned Fonthudis hypnoides with beautiful 

 fruits and a probably new, very fine species of Biccia, to 

 which I propose the name of B. renirifuya. From the gra- 

 dually withering centrum the long, slender, linear lobes of 

 this Biccia radiate in all directions, forming stars of at 

 times 20 centimeters in diameter on moist soil, thai every 

 year is periodically inundated. 



After some excursions in ihe environs of Krasnojarsk 

 (about 55^ 30' n. lat.) the expedition slowly oared down the 

 Jenisei, all the w^ay making excursions on both banks of the 

 mighty river. On the 29th of July, we arrived by Dudinka 

 (69^ 25' n. lat.) to the end of the woodregion or to the tun- 



