28 C. H. OSTENFELD. M.-N. Kl. 
II. List of Vascular Plants from King Point and Her- 
schell Island, Mackenzie Bay, collected in 1905—1906. 
In the autumn of 1905 the »Gjöa« anchored west of the mouth of 
the Mackenzie River at King Point, Lat. N. 69° 6° 40”, Long. W. 137° 40° 
and remained there until July 1906, when it went westward and after 
some few day’s delay at Herschell Island, Lat. N. 69° 35‘, Long. W. 138° 50' 
succeeded in finding a way out of the Beaufort Sea along the Alaskan 
north coast. During the long stay at King Point a considerable collection 
of plants was made, most of them in June and July 1906, and when 
waiting for better ice-conditions a number of plants was collected on 
Herschell Island. 
As the two collecting places are not far distant from each other, King 
Point on the mainland of Alaska and Herschell Island a little to the west 
of it, I enumerate the plants together in one list. Politically both places 
belong to the Yukon District of the Dominion of Canada, but the flora is 
the same as in the arctic part of Alaska, U. S. A. 
Our previous knowledge of the flora of the delta of the Mackenzie 
River and the surrounding tracts is very poor. In W. J. Hooxer’s Flora 
Boreali- Americana (1829—1840) the few older data are compilated. Later 
a number of scattered botanical papers dealing with different parts of the 
arctic and subarctic Alaska have been published, but, as far as I know, 
none of them gives anything specially about the flora of the places from 
which the Gjéa collection comes. I may perhaps have overlooked papers, 
as it seems to me strange that no collection from the often-visited Her- 
schell Island, nor from the not rarely traversed Mackenzie delta, has 
reached scientific people and been made the basis. of a publication. In 
Comm. Geol. Canada IX 1896, A, p. 147« I find a note in which Mr. 
Joux Macoux states, that the Geological Survey of Canada has received: 
»une belle collection de plantes faites à l’embouchure de la rivière 
Mackenzie et dans l’ile Herschel, dans la mer Arctique (par le Rev. J. D. 
STRINGER)«, but no list of these plants has appeared, to my knowledge. 
