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flowers, it is not likely that Martens meant this plant, but rather 

 the common white Dryas, which is not so very unlike a ])op])y. 

 The other plant is " der rothe Sauerampffer," which prohably 

 was Oxyria digyna Cam^id., now called " Saiicrling " by the 

 Germans. 



If tlie list of plants collected by Martens be compared with 

 the most recent publication on the flora of Spitzbergen,* it will 

 be seen that all the species named in the list have actually been 

 rediscovered by later expeditions. As to the locality where they 

 were collected, it apjiears that the}^ were found in the neighbor- 

 hood of Smeerenberg, on the northwestern shore of Spitzbergen, 

 designated by Martens as '' Harlinger Kocherey." 



* Nathorst, A. G., Nya Bidragtill Kiinnedomen om Spetsbergens Kiirl- 

 vuxter, Stockholm, 1883, Kgl. Sv. Vet. Akad. Hdlgr., vol. 20, No. 6, 88 pp. 



