398 ARCTIC FLORA. 



June 23d. 



A bright day, with the thermometer at 47°, and 

 light wind from the south. I have been out with my 

 young assistants collecting plants and lichens. The 

 rocks are almost everywhere covered with the latter, — 

 one variety, orange in color, grows in immense patches, 

 and gives a cheerful hue to the rocks, while another, 

 the tripe de roche, which is still more abundant, gives a 

 mournful look to the stony slopes which it covers. I 

 have brought in a fine assortment of flowers, and it 

 seems as if the plants are now mostly in bloom. They 

 have blossomed several days earlier than at Van Rens- 

 selaer Harbor in 1854. I have had a bouquet of them 

 in my cabin for many days past, and from the banks 

 of the little lake behind the Observatory I can always 

 replenish it at will. 1 



1 Not wishing to interrupt the text with details which would hare little 

 interest for the general reader, I give here the complete flora (so far as a 

 most persistent effort could make it so) of the region northward from 

 Whale Sound. Most of the plants were found at Port Foulke. My col- 

 lections numbered several thousand specimens, which my kind friend, Mr. 

 Elias Durand, of Philadelphia, was good enough to assist me in arranging, 

 and afterward to classify in a paper for the " Proceedings" of the Acad- 

 emy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, from which I give the following 

 list : — 



1. Ranunculus nivalis. 16. Lychnis apetala. 



2. Papaver nudicaule. 17. Lychnis pancijlora. 



3. Hesperis Pallasii, 18. Dryas integrifolia. 



4. Draba Alpina. 19. Dryas octopetala. 



5. Draba corymbosa. 20. Poientilla pulchella. 



6. Draba hirta. 21. Potentilla nivalis. 



7. Draba glacialas. 22. Alchemilla vulgaris. 



8. Draba rupestris. 23. Saxifraga oppositifolia 



9. Cochlearia officinalis. 24. Saxifraga Jlagellaris. 



10. Vesicaria Arctica. 25. Saxifraga ccespitosa. 



11. Arenaria Arctica. 26. Saxifraga rivularis. 



12. Siellaria humifusa. 27. Saxifraga tricuspidata. 



13. Siellaria Stricta. 28. Saxifraga cornua. 



14. Cerastium Alpinum. 29. Saxifraga nivalis. 



15. Silcne acaulis. 30. Leontodon palustre. 



