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THE FLORA AT PITLEKAJ. 



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a light boat to be carried thither. The bottom of the lagoon was 

 still filled with ice, above which however the water stood so high 

 that the boat floated in it. The naturalists settled by turns in 

 the tent, and from it made excursions in different directions, as 

 I hope with the result that the neighbourhood of Pitlekaj is now 

 the best known tract on the north of Asia, which after all is not 

 saying much. The first plant in flower {CochUaria fenestrata, 

 R. Br.) was seen on the 23rd June.^ A week after the ground 

 began to grow green and flowers of different kinds to show 

 themselves in greater and greater numbers.^ Some flies were 



^ During the expedition of 1861, when we were shut up by ice in Treu- 

 renberg Bay on Spitzbergen (79'^ 57'N.L.) the first flower {Saxifraga opposi- 

 t'lfoUa, L.), was pulled on the 22nd June. After the wintering in 1872-73, 

 Palander and I during our journey round North-east Land, saw tlie first 

 flower on the same species of saxifrage as early as the 15th June, in the 

 bottom of Wahlenberg Bay (79° 46' N.L.). 



2 For the sake of completeness, I shall here also enumerate the plants 

 which Dr. Kjellman found at Pitlekaj. Those marked with an * either 

 themselves occur in Scandinavia or are represented by nearly allied forms. 



Leucanthemum arcticum (L. ) DC. 

 Artemisia arctica Less. 



* „ vulgaris L. f. Tilesii 



Ledeb. 

 Cineraria frigida Richards. 



* „ palustris L. f. congesta 



Hook. 



* Antennaria alpina (L.) R. Br. f. 



Friesiana Trautv. 



* Petasites frigida. 



* Saussurea alpina (L. ) DC. f. an- 



gustifolia (DC.) 



* Taraxacum officinale Web. 

 Valeriana capitata Pall. 

 Gentiana glauca Pall. 

 Pedicularis sudetica Willd. 



„ Langsdorffii FiscH. 



,, lanata Willd. f. lei- 



antha Trautv. 

 „ capitata Adams. 



* Polemonium cceruleum L. 



* Diapensia lapponica L. 



* Armeria sibirica TURCZ. 



Primula nivalis Pall. f. pygmsea 

 Ledeb. 

 „ borcalis DuBY. 

 '"' Loiseleuria procumbens (L.) Desv. 



* Ledum palustre L. f . decumbens Ait. 



* Vaccinium vitis idaea L. 



* Arctostaphylos alpina (L.) Spreng. 



* Cassiope tetragona (L.) Don. 

 Hedysaruni obscurum L. 

 Oxytropisnigrescens(PALL.)Fisc'li. 



f. pygmaja Cham. 

 f-pecicK y 



Rubus Chamsemorus L. 



* Comarum palustre L. 

 Potentilla fragiformis L. 



f. parviflora Trautv. 

 f. villosa (Pall.) 



* Sibbaldia procumbens L. 



* Dry as octopetala L. 



Spiraea betulsefolia Pall. f. typica 

 Maxim. 



* Hippuris vulgaris L. 



* Saxifraga stellaris L. f. comosa 



Poir. 

 ,, punctata L. 



* „ cernua L. 



* „ rivularis L. 



* Rhodiola rosea L. 



'* Empetrum nigrum L. 



* Cardamine bellidifolia L. 

 Cochlearia fenestrata R. Br. 



f. typica Malmgr. 

 f. prostata Malmgr. 

 Ranunculus Pallasii Sehlecht 



* „ nivalis L. 



'^ ii pygmfeus Wg. 



* ,, hyperboreus RoTTB. 



* Aconitum Napellus L. f. delphini- 



folia Reichenb. 

 Claytonia acutifolia Willd. 



* Wahlbergella apetala (L.) Fr. 



* Stellaria longipes Goldie. f. hu- 



milis Fenzl. 



* „ humifusa RoTTB. 

 Cerastium maximum L. 



* ,, alpinum L. f. hirsuta 



Koch. 



