PLANTS. 



LIST OF THE PLANTS COLLECTED AT POINTS IN CUMBERLAND SOUND BETWEEN THE 

 SIXTY-SIXTH AND SIXTY-SEVENTH PARALLELS Of NORTH LATITUDE AND ON THE 

 SOUTH SHORES OF DISKO ISLAND, GREENLAND. 



By Asa Gray. 



The Howgate Expeditiou arrived in Cumberland Sound about the 

 middle of September, 1877 ; the ground was then covered with snow, 

 but this melted on the southern slopes some days later, and exposed a 

 few plants still in flower, Campanula rotunclifolia, Lychnis apctala, Stclla- 

 ria longipes^ var. Udicardsii, &c. 



Tn the succeeding summer the Florence left her winter-harbor eaily 

 in July, and while there was yet considerable snow remaining in the 

 valleys. At the time we left our winter-quarters there were but four 

 or five plants in flower in the vicinity, such as Taraxacum Dens-lconis, 

 Gochlearia officinalis^ Saxifraga siellata, and Saxifraga. rimilaris, var. 

 kyperhorea. 



Fyrola rotundifolia, var. pumila, showed buds on a southern slope by 

 the last day of May, but the same plants were not in flower by July 7. 

 The season appeared to be unusually backward, frequent snow-storms 

 prevailing till the latter days of June. 



At America Harbor, on the east side, and nearly opposite Annanac- 

 took, the winter-harbor, plants were in much richer profusion and aj)- 

 parently more than a week earlier than at the former place. 



As large a number of plants were collected here as oiu" short staj' 

 would admit of. A few days were also spent at the Kikkerton Islands, 

 and such of the islands as were accessible to us faithfully hunted over, 

 but many species were not yet in flower. 



On the south shores of Disko Island, Greenland, we collected for a 

 few days in August, and here the bulk of our plant-collection was made. 



Many si)ecies were found here that we had collected in Cumberland, 

 but they were strikingly more luxuriant and generally quite abundant. 

 In the following list the species coUected at points in Cumberland Sound 

 will be indicated by the letter C; those from Disko Island, Greenland, 

 by the letter G.— L. K, 



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