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 Guay. 



The Howgate Expeditiou arrived in Cmnberland Soimd 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 ])lants still in flower, Campamda rotimdifolia, Lyclmis apctcda, SfcUa- 

 ria longipcs, var. Udicardsii, &c. 



In the succeeding summer the Florence left her winter-harbor early 

 in Jul}', 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 Dcns-lconis, 

 Cochlear ia officinalis, Saxifraga stcllata, and Saxifraga rivularis, var. 

 hyperhorea. 



Pyrola rotundifoJia, var. pumila, showed buds on a southern slope by 

 the last day of JNIay, 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 Ilarbor, on the east side, and nearly opposite Annanac- 

 took, the vrinter-harbor, ])lants were in much richer profusion and ap- 

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



As large a number of ])lants were collected here as our short stay 

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

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

 but many species were not yet in flower. 



On the soutli shores of Disko Island, Greenland, we collected lor a 

 few (lays in August, and hcie the bulk of our plant-collection was made. 



^lany s])ecies were found here that we had collected in Cumberland, 



but they v/ere sti'ikingly more luxuriant and generally quite abundant. 



In the following list the species collected at points in Cuniberland Sound 



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



by the letter Ck— L. K. 



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