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travel plains, so low and Hat, that he could sometimes drive from the 

 sea-ice inland, without noticing it until the sledge scraped in the sand. 

 A- far as he could see, there was very little vegetation, and no game 

 was oli-rrved. Still 1 think that if the land were explored during sum- 

 IIXT time, a number of plants might be found. Captain ISACHSKX only 

 brought home a single collection li>74.'>), made May 17. I'.IOl. in the north- 

 we>lem rxtivmity of Ellef Hingnes Land, somewhere about lat. 79 20', 

 and long. 100. It contained the following (lowering plants: Poteti- 

 //lld <'nt<ir</ii/(it<(. Saxifraya oppositifolia, Papaver radicatum, lJr(il> 

 iil/>ii/(i, Ceraxtiiun <ili>i>/iun, Poa glauca. As all of these are ubiquit- 

 oii- plant-, there is no special interest attached to this small list. It is 

 to be regretted, that a dense cowering of snow almost over the whole 

 land prevented Captain ISACHSEN from seeing more of the vegetation, 

 and from bringing back a larger collection. 



With this paper I linish my contributions to the knowledge of the 

 flora of the Arctic American Archipelago, as far as the higher plants 

 are concerned. I am fully aware that these notes are of far less value 

 than is the treatment of the Ellesmereland flora; and I much regret that 

 I got no opportunity of visiting the lands to the west myself, as Hei- 

 berg Land at least would well have deserved a closer botanical survey. 

 But such long journeys can hardly be made in summer, when the road- 

 the sea-ice may break up at any moment. I must therefore, neces- 

 sarily leave further exploration to future expeditions. For my own part. 

 I have still much material left for further work, and I hope that I shall 

 -ooii be able to finish a paper about the vegetation of Ellesmereland, 

 so as to get time to pass on to the examination of the collections of 

 algae. 



The Index in the following pages I have put together as I am fully 

 aware that treatises, such as my Ellesmereland and N. W. Greenland 

 floras are not easily used without. Certain circumstances made it im- 

 pos>ible for me. at the time when the former was published, to compile 

 an Index to it. As. however, the three Papers about the flora> of higher 

 plants in the regions visited by the expedition will always have to be 

 u-rd together. 1 think that an Index common to all three, may answer 

 the need equally well. 



Lund, Sweden. Fehniarv' 1!H)'.I. 



