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Among the lists on the Alaska flora I shall only quote those which 
deal with the Arctic part, laying special stress on the Arctic coast east of 
Point Barrow, 156° 15’ Long. W. 
The whole of Alaska has a very varied and rich flora and the list 
by J. T. Rornrock, Flora of Alaska (Rep. Smithson. Inst. 1867) is now 
of but very little value. 
From the western, Beringian Coast several plant lists have been 
given, €. g.: 
SEEMAN, B.: Flora of Western Eskimaux-Land, in: The Botany of 
the Voy. of H. M. S. Herald 1845—1851. London, 1852—1857. 
KJELLMAN, F. R.: Fanerogamer fran vest-eskimäernas land, in: Vega- 
Exped. vetensk. arb., II, Stockholm 1883. 
Eastwoop, ALICE: A descriptive list of the plants collected by dr. 
F. E. BLAISDELL at Nome City, Alaska. — Botan. Gazette 1902. 
A list of plants collected at Point Barrow has been published in 
»Rep. Internat. Polar Exped. to Point Barrow, Alaska, Washington 1885<. 
The plants were identified by Professor ASA Gray, but the list is a very 
poor one (only 54 species enumerated). 
Further I may mention a paper by N. L. Brirron and P. A. RYDBERG, 
An Enumeration of the Flowering Plants collected by R. S. WILLIAMS 
and by J. B. TARLETON, in: Contributions to the Botany of the Yukon 
Territory (Bull. New York Botan. Garden, vol. 2, no. 6, 1901). The list 
given there, which includes many new species, does not include any record 
from the coast itself, most of the plants having been collected in the 
woody parts of the country. 
I have not succeeded in finding other publications which are of 
interest as giving lists of plants from Alaskan tracts touching on the 
Mackenzie delta, or bearing a similiar flora, but some scattered single 
records occur which will be quoted in the enumeration below. 
Lastly I have to mention that in SEEMAN’s paper on the Flora of 
Western Eskimaux-Land an appendix is given containing lists of plants 
collected during land expeditions in the Arctic America by British in- 
vestigators in search for the late Sir Jons FraNkLIN. Among the lists 
one is of special interest for us, namely an enumeration of plants gathered 
by Captain W. J. S. Putten. on his journey from Point Barrow to the 
Mackenzie River and further eastwards. This list is, as far as I have 
been able to find out, the only plant list of the tracts in question, 
and in the following enumeration I quote it as far as the records go: 
»Point Barrow to Mackenzies, »Arctic Coast«, Pelly Isl., Garry Isl., 
Richard’s Isl. (all in the Mackenzie Delta), »Coast west of Cape Bathurste, 
