Jan. 1908.] FLORA OF PRINCE CHARLES FORELAND. 313 
THE FLorA oF PRINCE CHARLES FORELAND, SPITSBERGEN. 
By R. N. Rupmose Brown, B.Sc. (Communicated by 
the Secretary.) 
In the summer of 1906 the Prince of Monaco landed an 
expedition under Dr. W. S. Bruce on the little-known island 
of Prince Charles Foreland, the most westerly island of the 
archipelago of Spitsbergen. Six weeks in July and August 
were passed ashore, and though the work of the expedition 
was in the main restricted to surveying, a small collection 
of plants was made. In 1907 Dr. Bruce again went to Prince 
Charles Foreland and spent the whole summer from June to 
September on the island. A further collection of plants was 
made, containing several species not included in the previous 
year’s collections... Dr. W. 8. Bruce kindly asked me to 
undertake the description of these two collections, and they 
form the subject of the present paper. 
Previous to Dr. Bruce’s exploration of Prince Charles 
Foreland our knowledge of the island was very meagre. The 
Swedish Spitsbergen expedition of 1898 under Dr. A. G. 
Nathorst landed on the island in July of that year, and 
collected 29 species of flowering plants. Anterior to this 
date no species had been recorded from the whole island 
with the two exceptions of Chrysosplenium alternifolium and 
Draba leptophylla. Dy. Bruce’s collections contain a total ot 
55 species of vascular plants. It must be remembered that 
the flora of the whole Spitsbergen archipelago as now known 
includes barely 200 species of vascular plants. The collections 
lack several common species well known from Spitsbergen, 
but surveying expeditions, as I have mentioned was the 
case with Dr. Bruce’s, have few opportunities and little time 
available for systematic collecting. Such gaps therefore as 
exist in these collections in all probability will be filled on 
a future occasion. Three species found on the Foreland by 
Drs. Andersson and Hesselman in 1898, namely, Cardamine 
bellidifolia, Sagina nivalis, and Saxifraga hieraciifolia, do not 
occur in Dr. Bruce’s collections. These bring the total 
number of species known from Prince Charles Foreland up to 
58. The Foreland specimens include no species not known 
from other parts of Spitsbergen, and the flora is entirely 
