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ant. A thorough revision especially of the KANE and HAYES plants- 

 would be of the greatest value; not only for an exact knowledge of the 

 N. W. Greenland flora, hut also for the settling of several questions 

 concerning the flora of Danish Greenland, for which a considerable 

 number of plants is recorded by DURAND alone, most probably because 

 he has arrived at wrong determinations. 



A striking feature in the above table, is the very different number 

 of species for the stations explored. The small area of Foulke Fjord has 

 yielded 81 plants a number greater than that from any other single 

 locality ; and even the list arrived at in my short stay there, is larger 

 than that of the entire area of the widely-branching district of Inglefield 

 Gulf, which, running far inland into a country of similar geological 

 nature, doubtless affords still better conditions than those of Foulke 

 Fjord. During my short stay at the latter place, I found again all the 

 species previously recorded for it with the exception only of 5 (among 

 which 2 at least are somewhat doubtful), and I added a considerable 

 number, including 9 species new to the whole of N. W. Greenland. 

 I think that several more species might still be found, were a trained 

 botanist to get an opportunity of surveying more than the small patch 

 of ground which I was able to reach to investigate. 



Next to Foulke Fjord stands Ivsugigsok with a list of 58 species. 

 A few indeed have been excluded from the list of NATHORST (Dryas 

 octopetala, Luzula spicata, Glyceria angustata, Taraxacum officinale) 

 but they have been replaced by others through the revision of his mate- 

 rial so as to give the original numbers unaltered. It is due principally 

 to the keen eye of NATHORST, trained in the excellent school of former 

 Swedish arctic expeditions, but partly also to WETHERILL, that the Cape 

 York region now shows a list of 75 species. Its relatively close neigh- 

 bourhood to Danish Greenland may, to a certain degree, have facilitated 

 an immigration and perhaps affords an explanation of this abundance; 

 but I think most of those plants will be found further north also, and 

 will not be confined to the open coast localities of Cape York. 



That the figures for Wolstenholme Sound, 34, far from represent 

 the true number of its flora can hardly be doubted, especially as many 

 common species are absent from it. Here much is left for future explo- 

 ration. In Inglefield Gulf, one locality only Northumberland Island- 

 has reached as yet a number of 39 species. Of these STEIN'S list con- 

 tains 38. None of the branch fjords, each equalling Foulke Fjord irk 

 size and probably surpassing it in conditions of plant-life, has as yeh 

 yielded as much as 30 species; and the total number of recorded plants 



