470 NEW LAND. 



comprise ten specimens (and the mosses will doubtless bring the average 

 well up to this), should make a further aggregate of fifty thousand 

 specimens. This result of the botanical work of the expedition, with 

 my notes on species from localities where they were not collected, will, 

 I hope, give a somewhat clear idea of the vegetation of Ellesmere 

 Land, and 'of the other tracts visited by us. For the present the 

 number of vascular plants in the flora of Ellesmere Land may be 

 estimated at approximately one hundred, exclusive of species noted by 

 Hart, but which I did not find again. It is, as yet, impossible to form 

 any reliable opinion in regard to the number of lower plants, but 

 probably the aggregate number of species will at least reach four 

 hundred. 



In conclusion, -it may be mentioned that I have in the main 

 completed my determination of the phanerogamse, and that later I shall 

 work out the vegetation, etc., as well as the sea-weeds^ possibly also some 

 of the freshwater algae. The rest of the material is being worked out 

 by the following botanists : Mosses by Dr. Brylm ; calciferous algas by 

 Conservator Foslie ; Lichens by Professor Darbishire ; fungi by Professor 

 Rostrup. For a small collection of drift-wood which I also brought 

 home no specialist has yet been found. 



