I. List of Vascular Plants from King William Land, 
collected in 1904—1905. 
As far as I know the flora of King Williams Land has been quite 
unknown hitherto. At least I have not succeeded in finding any publi- 
cation about it. Many plant lists exist from the more northern islands of 
the Arctic American Archipelago, based mainly upon collections brought 
home by the Franklin research expeditions. Among them I may mention, 
as belonging to countries in the neighbourhood of King William Land, 
1) a list of plants collected at Port Kennedy (the northern part of the 
Boothian Peninsula, ca. 72° Lat. N.) by Dr. WaLKER}, 2) a list of plants 
collected on the southern shores of Prince Albert’s Land (Wollaston Land 
and Victoria Land, 66—69° Lat. N., 112—117 Long. W.) by Mr. Raze? 
These two lists will be quoted in the following enumeration, as » WALKER, 
Boothia Felix« and »Rar, Wollaston-Victoria Lande. 
As the present collection does not claim to represent the whole flora 
of King William Land, but is only a list of the species (63 in number) 
collected on this island during the stay of the Gjöa Expedition, I think it 
allowable to restrict my quotations of the numerous scattered lists con- 
cerning the flora of the Arctic American Archipelago to the two lists just 
mentioned and further to quote the larger works: W. J. Hooker, Flora Boreali- 
Americana, 1829—1840, and Jonmn Macoux, Catalogue of Canadian Plants, 
parts IV, 1883—1890 ?, the last of which contains a careful compilation 
1 J. D. Hooker: An Account of the Plants collected by Dr. Walker in Greenland and 
Arctic America during the Expedition of Sir Francis M’Clintock, R. N., in the Yacht 
Fox. — Proc. Linn. Soc., Bot. Vol. V, 1867, p. 79—8o. 
2 J. D. Hooker: On some Collections of Arctic Plants, etc. — Ibidem, vol. I, 1857, 
p. II4—- 121. 
3 In a series of papers, “Contributions from the Herbarium of the Geological Survey 
of Canada” (from 1894 onward) Mr. James M. Macoun gives numerous additions to 
the records in “Catalogue of Canadian Plants”, but very few of them are from the 
Arctic islands, 
Vid.-Selsk. Skrifter. I. M.-N. Kl. 1909. No. 8. 1 
