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1901). Of the vegetation I piiblished an account in Medd. om Grl. 

 XXV; for the remaining collections see below, 



Herm. g. Simmons, botanist to the second Norwegian »Fram« Ex- 

 pedition in 1898, made an excursion to Lyngmarken near Godhavn. 

 In a prehminary paper (Nyt Magazin for Naturvidenskaberne B. 41, 

 1903 p. 223) he mentions some of the piants noticed. 



Theo. Holm pubhshed in 1900 a Hst of piants eollected by the 

 Peary Expedition of 1897 (Bull. of the Torr. bot. Cl. 27, p. 65—68); 

 2 species are mentioned from Godhavn. 



Morten P. Porsild, during a summer trip to West Greenland in 

 1902, made a boat excursion round Disko and eollected piants, not only 

 on the coast round the island, but in all the fjords and on the western 

 sides and at several stations in the interior of the northwestern part 

 also. 



Since my moving to Greenland in 1906 I have, partly alone, partly 

 together with visitors to the Danish Arctic Station: H. Bachmann of 

 Lucerne, M. Rikli of Ziirich, W, Jost of Berne, Lauge Koch of Copen- 

 hagen, Th, Wulff of Stockholm, W. E. Ekblaw of Urbana, 111. made 

 numerous excursions on Disko, to the southern coast as well to the 

 others, to the fjords aud in the interior. On most of those excursions I 

 was assisted by one or by both of my two sons: Thore jorn and Er- 

 ling Porsild, w^ho besides eollected on several trips for themselves. 

 Also my former assistant Mr. J. N. Nygaard made several gatherings 

 on the south coast. 



I have found on Disko Island and, as far as I am aware for the 

 first time: 



Potamogetoti Friesii (new to Greenland!), Alopeciirns aristulatus^ 

 Arctagrostis latijolia (cfr. Taylor and Hart), Deschampsia caespitosa var. 

 piimila, Puccinellia tenella, Heleocharis acicularis v. suhmersa, Carex cane- 

 scens, Ranunculus paucistamineus v, eradicatns, R. p. var. divaricatus 

 new to Greenland !), R. reptans, Draha aurea, Saxifraga aizoides, Poten- 

 tilla tridentata (cfr. Taylor, Hart), Callitriche autumnalis, Gentiana 

 aurea, Plantago decipiens, Linnaea borealis, Antennaria intermedia, Hie- 

 raciiim groenlandicum (together with Prof. M. Rikli). 



J. N. Nygaard was the first to find: 



Calamogrostis hyperborea. 



Thorbjorn Porsild was the first to find: 



Carex rufina, Pirola minory^grandifolia (new to Greenland!) 



