10 H. G. SIMMONS. [sec. arct. exp. fram 

 Compositae 7 ' Criiciferae 13 



Campaiuilaceae 1 



Scrophulariaceae 4 



Plumbagiiiaceae 1 



Priimilaceae 1 



Diapensiaceae 1 



Ericaceae 2 



Pyrolaceae 1 



Onagraceae 1 



Empetraceae 1 



Rosaceae 5 



Saxifragaceae 12 



Papaveraceae 1 



Ranunculaceae 6 



Caiyophyllaceae 10 



Polygnnaceae 2 



Salicaceae 1 



Juncaceae 3 



Gyperaceae 15 



Gramineae 20 



Lycopodiaceae 1 



Equiselaceae 2 



Polypodiaceae 4 



The genera represented by the largest number of species are Carex 

 and Saxifraga (11), Banunctilus (6), Draha and Poa (5), Pedicularis, 

 Potentilla and Glyceria (4). 



Only two genera, Androsace and Chrysosplenium are not present 

 in Greenland, and only two more species are totally absent from all 

 parts of that country, viz. Alsine Rossii and Carex membranopacta 

 (and besides the new Taraxacimi piimilum and Poa evagans). This 

 ought of course to bear out the opinion of Hooker (App. Nares) that 

 the flora of Ellesmereland is entirely Greenlandic; even after the number 

 of species has been brought up from the 69 he reckoned with to 115, 

 still the resemblance to the Greenland flora might seem to be almost 

 unaltered. Even at the first glance it must seem astounding that, if a 

 limit between a European flora in Greenland and an American one to 

 the west can be drawn at all, the line should not follow the border of 

 Greenland but should make such a deflection as to include Ellesmere- 

 land and to exclude it from the other Arctic Islands. Indeed it would 

 seem a priori more probable, that its affinity with the flora of the Arctic 

 American Archipelago was at least equally prominent. Now it must be 

 kept in mind, that the archipelago includes a considerable area and 

 stretches as far south as about 62° (Baffin Land) in the eastern part, 

 and about 68° (Victoria Land) in the western part. When the species 

 belonging only to those southern localities are excluded, as they must of 

 course be for the sake of a comparison which shall not be quite unnatural, 

 it will be found that the flora lists are nearly identical. I cannot at 

 present give any such list or any number of species for the Arctic 

 Islands as a revision of their flora must first be made, but this much I 

 know about it, that I can assert that the Ellesmereland flora is very 



