28 C. H. Ostenfeld. 



aroniul llif -•- incan llial llii' species has ikiI Imch IuiiikI (ni llit- arctie 

 islamls, but ncciirs oii I lir inairilaiul ol rmil In'iti .\. America, lu liic 

 eoluinn for Aretic Eim'hjx' hraekets iiicaii lliat tlif species have (uily 

 boen foiiiid nn tlie aretie islands (Spitsbergen, Xowaja Scmlja, rle.), 

 not on llie mainlaiul ol' northern Europe. 



Ilir jtlant list of Xorth-Greenland contains, as far as liiliicrlo 

 kiiowii, 12.") species ol" Flowering piants and Ferns. Surely sevcral more 

 have been reported in different papers, luit it seems to me the better 

 course to leave tiiem uiit if the records are old and somewhat doiibtfnl. 

 In his ]»aper Simmons (1909) already gave reasons for excluding a niim- 

 ber of records, the more so as he had opportunity to see many of the 

 old sj^ecimens brought home to London (now in the Kew Herbarium 

 and British Museum) by the English expeditions; still I find it necessary 

 to doubt some few more, niainly records from the Peary Auxiliary Ex- 

 peditions. This is not in all cases because I doubt the identiiication 

 of the s])ecimens themselves, but because I think some of the specimens 

 have been wrongly labelled with regard to the j)lace where they were 

 collected. Most of these expeditions also called at other piaces on both 

 sides of the Davis Strait and Smith Sound and piants were collected 

 here; it might therefore quite easily have happened that labels some- 

 times got mixed. 



From these reasons I omit the following species, which Simmons 

 has taken up in his paper as belonging to N. W. Greenland N. of 76° 

 N. Lat.: Pedicularis lanata (j)robably this is P. hirsuta), P. flammea 

 (from Cape York), Bartschia alpina., Diapensia lapponica, Saxijraga 

 aizoides, Draha incana^ Raniinculus nivalis (all the numerous specimens 

 I have seen from N. Greenland are R. sulphiireus, nor did Simmons 

 find it at Foulke Fjord), Montia lamprosperma (? = Koenigia islandica^), 

 Tofieldia paliistris (probably = T. coccinea), Carex scirpoidea, Dupont ia 

 Fiskeri, Poa alpina and Betiila nana, altogether 13 species. To this 

 list 1 add Festuca rubra recorded by Rydberg (1911 — 12) from llie 

 vicinity of Etah, but otherwise not found in North-Greenland. 



1 omit these species the more so, because I have seen some of tlie 

 specimens recorded; they are jireserved in the Gray Herbarium aiid in 

 other American herbaria, and 1 found my doubts well juslilied, the iden- 

 tifications not being correct. 



nf all the remaining species 1 have myself seen specimens from 

 North-Greenland either in the Copenhagen Museum or in lin- North- 

 American herbaria, or they are reported by Simmons from Foulke 

 Fjord (Inglefield Land). 



As to the distribution in the different areas of North-Greenland 



M See p. 202 of my pap.-r in Medd. Groiil. LMX (1923J. 



