('ontrilnitioiis to the Florn nV West Greenland. 



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extent, and at any rato this consideratiun niay be neglected as the 

 information is still very meagre. 



The numbers are given below in tabular form showing, as might 

 be expected, that a very strong contingent of southern types follows 

 the isotherm of July which evidently does not follow the parallels of 

 latitude but runs in the N.S. direction parallel to the inland ice: 



])istii])ution i)f nlants i ii W. Greenland 70°— 71"30 N. Lat. 



peculiar to 

 outer area 



nuraber p. c. 



peculiar to ' _ 



^ y common 



inner area 



number p. c 



luimber p. c. 



total 



number I p. c. 



species widely distribntcd in 



West Greenland 



northern types 



southern types 



total . . . 



2 



8 

 2 



12 



45 

 24 

 31 



or the 59 southern species the following 27 are common to both 

 areas: Lycopodium annotinum, Calamagrostis neglecta^ Poa alpina^ Fe- 

 stiica riibra^ Elymiis arenarius var. villosiis^ Heleocharis acicularis, Carex 

 lagopina, C. alpina, C. scirpoidea, Jiincus arcticus, Luziila spicata, L. 

 frigida, Miniiartia biflora, Cerastiiim trigynum^ Ranunculiis lapponicus, 

 Thalictriim alpinuitt^ Arahis alpiniim, Sibbaldia procumbens^ Potentilla 

 alpestris, Hippuris vulgaris, Phyllodoce coerulea^ Veronica alpina ^ Eu- 

 phrasia arctica, Pedicularis lapponica^ Pinguicula vulgaris^ Antennaria 

 glahrata and Taraxacum groenlandicum while two, Carex subspathacea 

 and Taraxacum croceum, are peculiar to the outer area only, and, not 

 less than 30 to the inner area : Botrychiiim Liinaria^ Sparganium sub- 

 muticum, Potamogeton filiformis^ P. groenlandicus, Triglochin paliistre, 

 Alopecurus aristulatus^ Agrostis borealis, Agropyron violaceum, Scirpus 

 caespitosiis, Carex capitata, C. Maclowiana^ C. microglochin, Jiincus tri- 

 fidus, Rumex acetosella^ Viscaria alpina, Montia lamprosperma, Ranun- 

 culiis confervoides, R. reptans, Arabis Holboelli, Draba aurea, Saxijraga 

 Aizoon, Sedum villosum, Potentilla Egedii, Callitriche autumnalis, Myrio- 

 phyUuni albescens, Primula mistassinica, Veronica fruticans, Bartschia 

 alpina, Utricularia ochroleuca, Antennaria intermedia. 



Of the 43 northern types the following 33 are common to both 

 areas: Alopecurus alpinus, Arctagrostis latifolia, Puccinellia Vahliana, 

 P. angustifolia, Carex ursina, C. stans, C. ustulata, C. rupestris, C. mis- 

 andra, Luzula nivalis, Tofieldia coccinea, Arenaria ciliaia subsp. norve- 

 gica, Melandrium apetalum, M. affine, M. triflorum, Lesquerella arctica, 

 Draba alpina, D. magellanica subsp. cinerea, Saxijraga tricuspidata, S. 

 Lvm. 13 



