s MoiiTFN V. I'fnisii.n. 



22 sp»'cies collocttMl h\ liimsolf noar Godhavn or on I lir \'aj»jat shore 

 near Unarto(| ;iml ( hitdligssat; only niir uf llifin iiceds especi.il mcii- 

 tion. viz. l'olrnlilla Iridcnlalu from Lyno;iiiark('n; as il Ikis not beon 

 Umiu\ hcrc l>y tlic nuincrons otlifi- holanisls wlio have visit cd Ihis 

 loeality. thr slatcnicnl soems erroneons'. l'ar more inleresting are the 

 instruftive descriptions s^ivou I>y thls aiithoi- (d' the t:i'tici;d character 

 of tho vegetation aronnd Godliavn. 



Sv. HKiK.c;iit.N, member of Xordenskiold's expedition of ISTD, 

 collecte(l phmts in the vicinity of Godhavn and gave in 1871 (Ofv. Iv. 

 Vet. Ak. Ftirh. I87J Xo. 7) an excellent description of the vegetation 

 of the localities visited by him. A systematically arranged list was not 

 published, but in thi' above named paper, the following species are 

 for the first time recorded from Disko: Dnjopteris Linnaeana, Calamo- 

 grostis neglecia, Care.r capitahi, Jiuicus trifidus, Luzula niralis, Sagina 

 saginoides, Mrlandriunt apelalniiu JJrdba ardica, Ranunculus sul fu- 

 rens, Efiilobiuni jialustre, Pirola secunda. 



In 1871 Th. M. Fries made still more valuable collections. He not 

 oidy collectcd on tlic soiith coast, but he also visited the fjorrls on the 

 western side and the then botanically unknown north and Vajgat coast 

 of Disko, As far as I am aware, Fries never published his vascular 

 piants from Greenland himself. biit Ihoy have been incorporated in 

 the »Conspectus« of La>ge 1880 and in its first suppplements of 1889. 



Of piants collected by Fries, the following were new to the flora 

 of Disko: Potamogetnn filiformis, Calamogrostis purpurascens, Duponlia 

 Fiskeri, Poa abbrerinla, Puccinellia Vahliana, PuccineUia angustata, Agro- 

 jiifrum riolaceuni, Cobresia Bellardi, Cobresia bipart ita, Care.r incurra, 

 Carex pedata, Carer capillaris, Corallorhiza trifida, Minuariia siricla. Ara- 

 bis arenicola, A. llolbocUi, Braija purpurascens, Draba incana, Les- 

 qnereUa arclica, Polenlilla Frieseana, Euphrasia arctica, Taraxacuni 

 jt/iifniatoraritum, T. groenlandirum. 



H. C. ll\r.T. naturalist to the British Polar-Expedition of 1875 

 — 7t> made rich collections of piants on the south coast of Disko, during 

 a week's stay here. In his paper (Journal of Botany, .New Series vol. 

 1\ IH80) he gives p. 54 — 55 a short account of the general character 

 of the vegetation and iu his list he records some 87^ species from this 



' .\ft«T tins was writtcii. H. G. Simmons has sliown 1. c. p. 47U tliat tiie spe- 

 ciiiU'iis of BnowN are Sibbaldia procumbens wilh a .small fragment of P. tri- 

 (lentatn. Bul as Brown tias collecled at Ctiristianshaab, where Uie latter 

 spocies occurs, il seems probablo fo mo, tliat llie tmiting of tlu- two piants 

 is due lo some confusion. 



' Acconling lo my enumt-ration . Haht liimself gives the number as 119 species. 



