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flowers, it is not likely that Martens meant this plant, but rather 

 the common white Dry as, which is not so very unlike a poppy. 

 The other plant is u der rothe Sauerampffer," which probably 

 was Oxyria dlgyna Campd., now called " Sauerling " by the 

 Germans. 



If the list of plants collected by Martens be compared with 

 the most recent publication on the flora of Spitsbergen,* it will 

 be seen that all the species named in the list have actually been 

 rediscovered by later expeditions. As to the locality where they 

 were collected, it appears that they were found in the neighbor 

 hood of Smeerenberg, on the northwestern shore of Spitzbergen, 

 designated by Martens as a Harlinger Kocherey." 



* Nathorst, A. G. , Nya Bidrag till Kannedomen om Spetsbergens Karl- 

 viixter, Stockholm, 1883, Kgl. Sv. Vet. Akad. Hdlgr., vol. 20, No. 6, 88 pp. 



