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map of HAYES (Arct. boat journ.), there lies an Eskimo village named 

 Natsilik, which is doubtless the same place. HAYES may have mis- 

 understood the name, or it may have been altered since, which is often 

 the case with Eskimo names. 



Another discrepancy, which ought to be mentioned, exists between 

 DURAND'S list and that of HAYES himself (Op. Pol. Sea, p. 39899), 

 where some corrections are made ; these are. however, of different value, 

 being only partly based upon more reliable determination. 



During the next american expedition, that of HALL, 1871, evidently 

 very little was done towards the botanical exploration of the new land 

 visited. BESSELS, however, the leader of the expedition after the death 

 of HALL, has given a list of twenty-one or twenty-two species found in 

 HALL land, probably in the vicinity of Polaris Bay (Amer. Nordpol 

 Exp., p. 304). One species is here added to the preliminary list of BESSELS 

 (Exp. Pol. Amer., p. 297) and the identifications of the species are said 

 to have been verified by ASA GRAY. Notwithstanding, I think that some 

 of the records must be based on a mistake; such, for instance, as Erio- 

 pliorum vaginatum and most probably also Carex dioica. This list 

 is, however, still of considerable interest as being the first contribution 

 to the flora of the northern parts, with the exception of the few plants 

 mentioned by KANE from MORTON'S spring journey along Kennedy Channel. 



The NARES expedition in 1875 76 visited Gape York and Foulke 

 Fjord in the southern part of our area, and, to the north, the region at 

 the mouth of Bessels Bay as well as at Polaris Bay; and besides that, 

 one single note is given about the vegetation at BEAUMONT'S farthest. 

 As the expedition had scientific investigations for its purpose more di- 

 rectly than the previous ones, and as it also possessed a member spe- 

 cially acting as its botanist, its botanical harvest was far greater than 

 that of its predecessors. Mr. H. C. HART, the botanist of the expedition, and 

 several other members Captain, now Colonel H. W. FEILDEN, Doctors 

 Moss and COPPINGER, besides others, brought together a rather extensive 

 collection which is still of great value for the study of the flora. It is, 

 however, to be regretted as I have already set forth in my Fl. Ellesm., 

 that, in many cases, the specimens are labelled with insufficient care. 

 In some cases also, it seems quite certain that specimens from the places 

 in Danish Greenland visited by the expedition have got mixed with the 

 N. W. Greenland and Ellesmereland collections, thus causing some wrong 

 statements. In other cases, not a single specimen in the London her- 

 barium confirms a statement that ought surely to be thus supported 



