462 Mr Philip Sewell on the Flora of [sess. lhi. 



Carex aquatilis, C. rotundata and other species, Uriophorum, 

 and certain coarse grasses, grow in wearisome sameness out 

 of the swamps, or from amongst carpets of Amhlysteyium, 

 Sphagnum, and Jungermannice. These may be dotted over 

 with Caltha and Fedicularis, whilst very commonly, where 

 there is the slightest drainage afforded by sloping ground, 

 Polemonium, Saxifraga eernua, S. Hircidus, S. hieraciifolium, 

 Chrysosph Ilium, and often Salix lanata, or S. glauca, are to 

 be met with. 



In certain isolated places, as upon old river banks covered 

 with peat and exposed to the south, were gayer plants, some 

 of which were not observed in Lapland. Such were 

 Astragalus, Oxytropis, Senccio (Cineraria), Arnica, Myosotis, 

 Draha sps., and Lloydia scrotina. 



Marly places, along the edge of the low cliffs or about 

 the river banks, were most characteristically clothed with 

 Dryas odopetala, which spread in great tufts as one con- 

 tinuous network, in which were to be found Saxifraga sps., 

 Androsace, Draha sps., Papaver nudicaule, and indeed almost 

 every one of the plants requiring a drier habitat. These 

 grew, not in the bare spaces l^etween the network of Dryas, 

 ])ut out from amongst its prostrate stems, as if there alone 

 could the young seedlings find protection sufficient to nurse 

 them into maturity. 



Very abundant on slopes of the low cliffs were Saxifraga 

 eernua, S. o]jp)ositifolia, and Draha sps. (not met with in the 

 north of Lapland) ; also Cochlearia, Silene aeaulis, and 

 Sedum Rhodiola. Often too, as on tlie di'ier beaches, several 

 species of Salix grew in profusion, where also many of the 

 plants not found by me in Lapland were observed ; such, 

 for instance, were Lyehnis apetala, L. affinis, Arenaria 

 TiOTvegica, Adoxa, Artemisia borealis, A. vulgaris, Armeria, 

 Androsace, Polemonium pulchclhim, and Lloydia serotina. 



A glance at the Summaiy will show what were the plants 

 found at the Yugor Straits exclusively. Many of these are, 

 however, native to Lapland. 



Without making an exhaustive list of absentees, we 

 may enumerate the fcjllowing commoner plants which 

 occurred in Lajdand, Ijut of which no signs were seen at the 

 Yugor Straits : — Trullius europmus, Viola hiflora, V. pa- 

 lustris, Lychnis diarna, Sagina sps,, Muntia J'ualana, 



