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are derived from America and others are peculiar to itself ; 

 and that under this latter point of view it should be regarded 

 as a subdivision of the European flora, and when discussing 

 questions of Arctic distribution be called Greenlandic. 



No fewer than sixty-nine identifiable flowering plants 

 and ferns, and about six more, in too imperfect a condition 

 to be named accurately, have been brought by the Polar 

 Expedition from the latitudes mentioned above (besides 

 nearly as many more from the Greenland coast south of it) ; 

 a considerably larger number (ten) than have rewarded the 

 researches of the various explorers of Melville Island (con- 

 taining about sixty), situated 5° further south, and in a 

 much milder climate ; and only twenty-three less than are 

 found in Spitsbergen (containing about ninety ] ), which lies 

 wholly to the south of lat. 80°, is a much larger area, is 

 washed on its west coast by the comparatively warm Gulf 

 Stream, and has been explored by trained botanists. 



The elements of the Flora may be thus expressed : — 



1. Spitsbergen species . . . . . .49 



2. Melville Island 41 



3. Greenland species not found either in Spitsbergen or 



Melville Island 12 



4. Species not found in Greenland, Spitzbergen, or 



Melville Island 2 



I. The species not found in Spitsbergen are : — 



Vesicaria arctica . . Greenland and E. Arctic America. 



Cheiranthus pygmcBiis . Do. „ „ 



Arenaria grcenlandica . Do, and Mts. of E. U. States. 



Saxifraga tricuspidata . Melville Island and Arctic Ame- 

 rica generally. 



Epilobium latifoliwm . Do. and Northern Regions gene- 

 rally. 



1 ' Malingren in Ofvers af K. Vel. Akad. Forh.' 1862, pp. 229-268 ; 

 translated in Seemann's ' Journal of Botany,' 1864, pp. 130 and 162. A 

 few additions have subsequently been made. 



