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in grass-fields where italian Loftis-seeds have been sown. The author 

 identifies this form with the G. tyrolense Wild. = G. insiibricum 

 Gaud., which Briquet correctlj^ has placed as a variety oiG. mollugo L. 



C. H. Ostenfeld. 



Osienfeld, C. H., Vascular Plants collected in Arctic 

 North America (King William Land, King Point and 

 Herschell Isl.) by the Gjöa Expedition under Captain 

 Roald Amundsen 1904—190 6. (Christiana Vidensk.-Selsk. 

 Math.-Naturv. Klasse 1909. N-. 8. 74 pp. 3 pl. 1910.) 



The Gjöa Expedition under Captain Amundsen has brought 

 home a rather large collection of dried plants collected: 1) at Gjöa 

 Harbour, King Wüliam Land (Lat. N. 68° 38', Long. W. 96° 24'), 

 and 2) at Kins Point, west of the mouth of the Mackenzie 

 River (Lat. N. 69° 7', Long. W. 137° 40) and on Herschell Island 

 Lat. N. 69°3o', Long. W. 138°60), a little to the west of King 

 Point. The collectors having no botanical training, the plants do 

 not give an}' complete idea of the floras of the countries in question; 

 but the list from the poor King William Land flora seems to be 

 rather representative, only the grass-like plants being too scarce 

 in number. 



The flora of King William Land has been quite unknown 

 hitherto; now the present list enumerates 63 species, mostl}' com- 

 monly distributed arctic plants, but also several rare arctic-American 

 species, e. g. Carex membranopacta, Arctophüa fidva var. ejfusa, 

 Potentilla riibricanlis and Chrysanthemum, integrifolium . Neu ist 

 Taraxacum hyperboreiint Dabist.; new names are Cerasthnn Regeln 

 Ostf. {■= C. alpinum, 7. caespitosmn Malmgr.), the general distribution 

 of which is arctic-eurasiatic, and Matricaria inodora, \a.r. grandißora 

 (Hook.) Ostf. (^ Chrysanthemum granäiflorum Hook.; Pyrethrum 

 inodorurn, ß. namcm Hook. & Arn.; Matricaria inodora, var. phaeoce- 

 phala Rupr.). 



The plants collected at King Point and Herschell Island 

 represent without doubt onlj^ a part of the rather rieh flora of these 

 countries, 119 species are enumerated among which many interes- 

 ting Alaskan species. Most of the plants have been found in Alaska 

 before. if not all in the arctic part, but there are also some new re- 

 cords, e. g. Ranunculus gelidus, Anemone Drummondi and Douglasia 

 arctica. New species and varieties are: Liipinus nootkatentis , var. 

 KjeUmanii Ostf., Oxytropis Roaldi Ostf.. SeJiecio integrifolius, var. 

 Lindstroemit Ostf. and Taraxacum eurylepium Dabist. 



Under man}' species are given numerous Synonyms and explicit 

 critical remarks together with descriptions. 



The three plates illustrate 22 of the more critical species by 

 half size reproductions of photographs of herbarium specimens. 



Author. 



Ostenfeld, C. H. and A. Lundager. List of Vascular Plants 

 from North-east Greenland (N. of76° N. Lat.) collected 

 bv the "Danmark-Expedi tion". (Medd. om Grönland. XLIII. 

 l."32 pp. 6 pl. 3 figs. in the text. Kjöbenhavn 1910.) 



During the "Danmark-Expedition" under the late Mylius- 

 Ericksen to North-east Greenland the botanical collector Mr. 

 A. Lundager has brought together a probably complete collection 

 of the vascular plants. Most of the plants have been taken in the 



