8 Morten P. Porsirp. 
22 species collected by himself near Godhayn or on the Vajgat shore 
near Unartog and Qutdligssat; only one of them needs especial men- 
tion, viz. Potentilla tridentata from Lyngmarken; as it has not been 
found here by the numerous other botanists who have visited this 
locality, the statement seems erroneous!. Far more interesting are the 
instructive descriptions given by this author of the general character 
of the vegetation around Godhavyn. 
Sv. Berccren, member of Norpensk16Lp’s expedition of 1870, 
collected plants in the vicinity of Godhavn and gave in 1871 (Ofv. K. 
Vet. Ak. Férh. 1871 No. 7) an excellent description of the vegetation 
of the localities visited by him. A systematically arranged list was not 
published, but in the above named paper, the following species are 
for the first time recorded from Disko: Dryoplteris Linnaeana, Calamo- 
grostis neglecta, Carex capitata, Juncus trifidus, Luzula nivalis, Sagina 
saginoides, Melandrium apetalum, Draba arctica, Ranunculus sulju- 
reus, Epilobium palustre, Pirola secunda. 
In 1871 Tu. M. Fries made still more valuable collections. He not 
only collected on the south coast, but he also visited the fjords on the 
western side and the then botanically unknown north and Vajgat coast 
of Disko. As far as I am aware, Fries never published his vascular 
plants from Greenland himself, but they have been incorporated in 
the »Conspectus« of Lance 1880 and in its first suppplements of 1889. 
Of plants collected by Fries, the following were new to the flora 
of Disko: Potamogeton filiformis, Calamogrostis purpurascens, Dupontia 
Fisheri, Poa abbreviata, Puccinellia Vahliana, Puccinellia angustata, Agro- 
pyrum violaceum, Cobresia Bellardi, Cobresia bipartita, Carex incurva, 
Carex pedata, Carex capillaris, Corallorhiza trifida, Minuartia stricta, Ara- 
bis arenicola, A. Holboelli, Braya purpurascens, Draba incana, Les- 
querella arctica, Potentilla Frieseana, Euphrasia arctica, Taraxacum 
phymatocarpum, T. groenlandicum. 
H. C. Harr, naturalist to the British Polar-Expedition of 1875 
—76 made rich collections of plants on the south coast of Disko, during 
a week’s stay here. In his paper (Journal of Botany, New Series vol. 
IX 1880) he gives p. 54—55 a short account of the general character 
of the vegetation and in his list he records some 87? species from this 

After this was written. H. G. Simmons has shown |. c. p. 470 that the spe- 
cimens of Brown are Sibbaldia procumbens with a small fragment of P. tri- 
dentata. But as Brown has collected at Christianshaab, where the latter 
species occurs, it seems probable to me, that the uniting of the two plants 
is due to some confusion. 
According to my enumeration; Harr himself gives the number as 119 species. 
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