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imi-t have looked out well to have been able to find so many species 

 <-arly in the year before the snow had gone away. Besides, he thought 

 lie had seen some more, especially l\inpetrnni niyrum which, however. 

 wa- nut present in the collection. 



2. Whit Sunday Bay. 



Mr. SCHEI camped here. May 26, 1901, and made a collection of 

 lluwering plants containing:- Potentilla pulcliella. Saxifraya cermta, 

 Chamaenerium latifolium, llesperis PaUasii, Melandrium affine, 

 Stella rid l<ujipcs, Alsine verna, Salix arctica, Festiica ovina (all in 

 2755). 



3. Sk riiling (Eskimo) Point. 



The collection of Mr. SCHKI from this point was made May 17, 1901, 

 and contains:- Potentilla pidchella, Melandrium a f fine, Stellar ia 

 lonyipes, Alsine verna, Luzida arcuata var. cottfiisa, Poet cenisia 

 I all in 27:>3). 



4. Vicinity of Black Wall. 



Visited by Mr. SCHEI, May 11, 11102. His collection consists only 

 of Lnzula nivalis (4121) and some lichens. 



5. Rens Fjord. 



Mr. FOSHELM who together with Captain SVKRDRUP turned back from 

 here, May 5, 1900, made a little collection which was found to embrnn- 

 three flowering plants, Saxifraya oppositifolia, Papaver radical nin, 

 and Festuca ovina, besides some lichens and, according to BRYHN, Bryo- 

 phyla. p. 187, the following mosses: - Dicranum congestum, Ditrichuw 

 '. Rhacomttrium lannyinoxum. Timmia austriaca, Polytri- 

 al/tinum, P. pilifcnun (all in 



\Vilh this, 1 have to finish my small contribution to the knowledge 

 of the botanical features of Heiberg Land. At present, its flora is known 

 t" <-miH^I il :){ flowering plants and 15 mosses, besides some unexamined 

 lichens. A rnhiiii interest attaches to one of the phanerogams, vi/.. //'- 

 .s-yw/.s /'nllitxii, which is not found in tho south coast of Kllesmereland. 

 \\* occiirrenre at \\'hil Sunday Bay ' seems to imply that it has reached 

 middle and northern Klloinerelaiid by way of Heiberg Land. The 



l!y ini-liikf I have, in my Kl. Kllc^in., p. ~S, mrnl ioncd it for llyperite I'uint 



instead 



