10 Mohten r. l'oiiMi.ii. 



ISTl*. Tilt' llowt'rinix plaiits wore colloctcd liy liiiii .nul ililriinim'il liy 

 AsA (iHVY, aii»l a lisl of llu'in is piiMishtMl in Hull. ( . S. .\;il. Mus. No. 

 li"). Wasliiiiijtoii lS7i>. No special localities ure given. Ainongsl tlif piants 

 nientioniMJ from Disko, tlio most iiili'i(>sting is Arctostojihylos alpina. 



Jon. Langk puMislit'd in ISSO Ihc tiist pail ol his excellent j^Con- 

 spectus llorae Groenlandieae ^Meddelelser om Gronland I II ) in which he 

 has pul together all reeords of Greenland planls known up lo that lime 

 and ehiedy hased his resulls on his own revision of the large collections in 

 Ihe museum at Copenhagen. Here also are mentioned for the lirst time 

 some small cullections made by several Danish oflieials and ladies 

 and sent to Copenhagen, For Disko the whole number of vascular piants 

 recorded by Lange amounts to about 175 species. 



A. Berlin and \. C. Nathorst, both |);iiti<ipating in Norden- 

 skk'ild's expedition ol 1883, eollected piants on Disko. In his paper 

 Berlin enumerates about 44 species from the vicinity of Godhavn 

 (Ofv. K. \'et. Ak. F('>rh. 1884 No. 7) whilst Nathorst reeords 21 species 

 from Ih." \ajgat coast. (Ofv. K. Vet. Ak. 1884 No. 1). 



In liolli paniphlets several interesting varieties and forms are 

 ment iont-d. 



EuG. Warming, visited during his journey to Greenland in 1884 the 

 south coast of Disko and made, assisted by Theo. Holm, rich collec- 

 tions here. Some of their most interesting gatherings ar(> mentioned in 

 a paper of Wahming's in Meddelelser om Grønland \ I 1 88G, (for the 

 rest see the papers by Holm and Lange quoted below). 



The main botanical results of the journey was IIh' elassical treatise 

 of W \RMIN<.: (»ni Gronlands Vegetation (Medd. om GrtMil.ind XII 1887 

 %vith resumé in l'icncli ibid. (see also Engler's Jahrbiieher). 



In I his work are also given detailedaccountsof some stations on Disko. 



TiiKo. lluLM and L. KoLKKRip Rosenvin(;e travellfd in West Green- 

 land in IH8J)and also eolleeled on the southcoast of Disko. Ibu \i publislifd 

 the results of his two journeys in Fn<;ler's .Lihrbuehcr \ III p. 2S."1 11., 

 Nvhere some 121 speeies are nimtioncd from Disko, amongst them the 

 very rare Alrhiniilla alfiina, lihodiola. rosca and Carex gynocrates new 

 lo Disko. 



Thi- iifw Iftealities fonnil by Hosenvinge, who was ehiedy engaged 

 in studies on .Algae, are ineorporated in Ihc following paper. New to 

 Disko are Srdiini rillosinn. 



In 1 887 .Ion. Lan(,k pnblished a supplement to his )>Con- 

 spectus" (.Mf'dd. om Gronland III. 2i in whieh sev('r;d new lomlities are 



