\'2 Morten 1'." I'ousii.i). 



In 1S*.I0 L. KoLMEiu p HosKNViNGE pulilislitMl a list ol" new rccords 

 made since his papcr (»f IS'.'J. As far as Disko is concerned, some most 

 iiitfrt'stini; iratheriutis l>y llie Hev. I'. II. Sorensen, partly fiom ChmI- 

 havn, partly from the Disko fjord an- itjcorporatcd with it ; also some 

 rolleelions madf l«y M. Thmsteut. 



\ rt'markaMt' mimber of the Hev. Soiu-.nsen's findinjrs are made 

 outside the ordinary area of distribution. All the determinations of 

 the.se lindinij;s have heen verified by Hosenvinge, and the labels 

 bear qnite eorrect statements of liii(lins:-place, date, etc. But all 

 the samt' 1 do think that some of them ought to be questioned, be- 

 eause, duriuL,' several years, I have made an unavailing search for the 

 piants in those localities within my reach, as for instance, Connis suecica^ 

 a very eonspieuous species which is recorded boih from Egedesminde 

 and Godhavn, even witli ripe fruit. Besides, we meet witii some quite 

 im|)robable statements in the material collected by Sørensen. Pola- 

 Dutgeton grarnincus, for instance, being recorded from Hode Elv ncar 

 (i(»dhavn. But Hode Elv is a cold glacier torrent in which no Potamogeton 

 is able to grow, least of all this purely temperate species, which other- 

 wise is known from 60° — 61° only, and occasionally up to (37°. 



As thf Hev. Sørensen lived during those years when he formed 

 his coJlection, sometimes at Godthaab, about 64°, and sometimes at 

 Disko-Bay I cannot get rid of the idea lliat his collections from the 

 various piaces have somehow got mixed, which often happens, I am 

 sorry to say, in the case of amateurs who fail to see the wide bearing 

 of their statements. Therefore I cannot take those statements, into 

 cttnsidcration. till tlipy have been confirmed by more reoent discoveries. 



A. \\ . Hnwi.KK and Iv. M. Wikgand j)ublished 18K7 in ( Botauiral 

 Gazcttf X\\ I 1 p. 417 — 26) a list of piants collected by the Cornkll- 

 Party of the Pe.vry cxpedilion of 1896. From the vicinity of Godhavn 

 67 species are named, of which a few are rather rare, all however having 

 l)een previously found htrc. 



CiiR. Knri SK visititj jn |S'.i7 during a bolanical journey to West 

 Greenland, I hf nrighbourhood of Godhavn anrl gave in 1898 some ac- 

 counts of the vegetation and of the piants noticed by liini (Mcdd. om 

 Gi i. \I\ p. :;4S IT. I. 



MoitTKN r. I'uRsiLD visited Disko in 1898 and collected on the south- 

 coast, the N'ajgat eoast and some branches of the Disko-Fjord and in 

 some vallpys leading to the interior viz. the Kuganguaq valley, the 

 Kvan-valh'v behind rjaragsug.ssuk. (»f my collections, the /^o/e/?.f///a5 

 have bffn stuflifd by P. A. Hvnr.Kiu; (Bidl. of tho Torr. bot. Club 28, 



