The Flora of Disko Island and Adjacent Coast of West Greenland. 11 
mentioned, chiefly based upon collections made by Danish travellers 
and officials in Greenland, but partly compiled from papers of British 
and Swedish authors. 
N. Hartz visited in 1890 a few localities on the Vajgat coast and 
in the neighbourhood of Mudderbugt and gave in 1894 (Medd. om Gron- 
land XV) an account of the vegetation of those places. Of his most 
interesting gatherings Potentilla Ranunculus, Pirola minor, and Calli- 
triche verna, were new to Disko, perhaps also Stellaria borealis. For the 
remainder of his gatherings see the following. 
L. Kotperup Rosenvince published in 1892 (Medd. om Grl. III 
cont.) a thoroughly revised list of the plants of Greenland, as a second 
supplement to Lance’s Conspectus. Of Disko plants it contains most 
of Hotm’s and all Harz’ gatherings. 
W. E. Meenan collected in 1892, during an expedition to Peary’s 
winter-quarters, some plants near Godhavn, and published in 1893 a list 
of them, as well as of some plants collected by Dr. Burck in the same 
locality (Proce. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia 1895). Although in this list 
special localities are wanting, | suppose all the same that about 50—60 
of his species may have been collected here. 
MEEHAN records, without doubt erroneusly, the following interesting 
of his plants from Disko. 
Potentilla tridentata; ? = Sibbaldia (see above Taytor and Harr. 
Matricaria inodora as a garden weed; perhaps this is correct; only 
I may point out, that 17. Chamomilla is quite common as a weed near 
the settlement. 
Pedicularis capitata | 
Pedicularis versicolor | 
It is evident to every one with any knowledge of the flora of 
Greenland and it is shown by different authors (for instance by TuEo. 
Howm (ibid. 1895 p. 543 ff.), Meenan’s paper is totally uncritical and 
unscientific, and no eredit can be given to his statements, so long as 
they are not verified by others. Unfortunately Mr. Hotm only saw 
part of his collections. 
probably = P. flammea. 
H. E.Wernerivy collected, during the Peary Auxiliary Expedition 
of 1894 plants, partly near Godhavn, partly on the little-studied N.W. 
coast of Disko. A list was made by the staff of the botanical department 
of Harvard University (Buil. No. 5 of the Geogr. Club. of Philadel-. 
phia). From Disko 35 species are recorded, amongst which Deschampsia 
alpina is new to that island, and Raphanus Raphanistrum, a garden 
weed, is new to Greenland. 
