The Flora of Disko Island and Adjacent Coast of West Greenland. 11 



mentioned, chiefly based upon collections made by Danish travellers 

 and officials in Greenland, but partly compiled from papers of British 

 and Swedish authors. 



N. Hartz visited in 1890 a few locahties on the Vajgat coast and 

 in the neighbourhood of Mudderbugt and gave in 1894 (Medd. om Grøn- 

 land XV) an account of the vegetation of those piaces. Of his most 

 interesting gatherings PotentiUa Ranunculus, Pirola minor, and Calli- 

 triche verna, were new to Disko, perhaps also Stellaria horealis. For the 

 remainder of his gatherings see the following. 



L. KoLDERUP Rosenvinge published in 1892 (Medd. om Grl. III 

 cont.) a thoroughly revised list of the piants of Greenland, as a second 

 supplement to Lange's Conspectus. Of Disko piants it contains most 

 of Holm's and all Hartz' gatherings. 



W. E. Meehan collected in 1892, during an expedition to Peary's 

 winter-quarters, some piants near Godhavn, and published in 1893 a list 

 of them, as well as of some piants collected by Dr. Burck in the same 

 locality (Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia 1893). Although in this list 

 special localities are wanting, I suppose all the same that about 50 — 60 

 of his species may have been collected here. 



Meehan records, without doubt erroneusly, the following interesting 

 of his piants from Disko. 



PotentiUa tridentata: ? = Sibbaldia (see above Taylor and Hart. 



Matricaria inodora as a garden weed; perhaps this is correct; only 



I may point out, that M. Chamomilla is quite common as a weed near 



the settlement. 



Pedicularis caviiata \ , ,, ^i ^ 



_,,.,. . , ■ probablii = P. flanmiea. 



Pedicularis versicolor ' 



It is evident to every one wilh any knowledge of the flora of 

 Greenland and it is shown by different authors (for instance by Theo. 

 Holm (ibid. 1895 p. 543 ff.), Meehan's paper is totally uncritical and 

 unscientific, and no credit can be given to his statements, so long as 

 they are not verified by others. Unfortunately Mr. Holm only saw 

 part of his collections. 



H. E.Wetherill collected, during the Peary Auxiliary Expedition 

 of 1894 piants, partly near Godhavn, partly on the httle-studied N.W. 

 coast of Disko. A hst was made by the staff of the botanical department 

 of Harvard University (Bull. No. 5 of the Geogr. Club. of Philadel- 

 pliia). From Disko 35 species are recordcd, amongst which i)e5c/«am/>5m 

 alpina is new to that island, and Raphanus Raphanistriun, a garden 

 weed, is new to Greenland. 



