Insect Life on the Western Arctic Coast of America 



7X 



Apart from mosses and grasses and Cyperacse whose in-t aew are 



less easily noticed, new leaves and buds were found od plants as follow 



CAMDEN BAY TO DEMARCATION POINT, 1914 



May 1-10 



Cerastium alpinum 

 E mpetrum nigrum 

 Ledum palustre 

 Cassiope tetragona 



May 21-31 



Arcnaria peploides ~| 

 Martensia maritima J-buds only. 

 Potentilla pulchella ) 

 Saxifraga decipiens 



nudicaule 

 Cochlearia groenlandica 

 Oxytropis nigrescens 



June 11-20, New leaves : 



Salix pulch 

 8. reticulata 

 Ranunculus nivalis 

 ! " uione parvi flora 

 Taraxacum lyratum 

 Artemisia comata 

 Papaver nudicaule 

 I ' i '. i ' grifolia 

 Lupinus nootkatensis (buds only) 

 pecurus alpinus 

 stans. 

 Primula borealis 

 Elymus mollis 

 Epilobium latifolium 



May U 



Vaccininm caespitosum 



Oxytropis nigrescens 1 



Betula glandulosa \ leaf-buds only. 



/'( dicularis lanata 



Saxifraga oppositi/olia (new leaves, 



loped). 

 S. hieraciifolia 



grifolia 



June 1-10, New leaves : 



Various Caryophyllacea 



ifraga (e.£. S. branchinlis 

 S tricuspidata) 

 " Compositae 

 Pedicularis lan< 

 Pymln grandiftora 

 Ovyria digyna 

 Caltha palustris 



vm arvense (buds only) 

 Salix pulchi a I only buds) 

 Hippuris vulgaris (only buds) 



June Xew leaves : 



' longipi 



1 1 is 

 Polemonium boreale 

 Petasitcs frigida 

 Lloy< 



Rubus ' ha is 



• ctrum nigrum 



From July onward all the plants have new leaves. 



Flowers of the following plants were found. See also Vascular Plants 

 Collected in Arctic North America by the "Gjoa" Expedition (Ostenfeld, 1910 



June S-i 

 Salix pulchra (female) 

 Eriophorum vaginatum 

 Saxifraga oppositifolia 



June 11-15 

 Salix pulchra (male) 

 Lycopodium sclago 

 Ranunculus nivalis 

 Anemone parviflora 

 Salix Richardsonii (male and female) 



June 17-20 

 Salix rotundifolia (male and female) 

 S. ovalifolia var. camdensia (male 



and female) 

 Cochlearia groenlandica 

 Oxyria digyna 

 (i ytropis nigrescens 

 Potentilla pulchella 

 l'i dicularis lanata 

 Dryas integrifolia 



June 21-2H 

 Draba alpina, D. fiadnizensis 

 Oxytropis nigrescens 



June 27-28 

 Papaver nudicaule 

 Cassiope tetragona 



Primula borealis 

 Lloydia 



cularis ardica 

 Ran yulphurt 



Caltha palustris 

 Petasitea frigida 

 salt.r /•< ticulata 



ifraga nelsoniana 



June 20-30 



Carex rarifU 

 Polygonum viviparum 



Lunula nivalis 



Alaine ardtica 



Silene acaulis 



!u 2-7 



i folium 



I!. Srln itch ■ 



rigida 



Lagotis gla- 

 Polemonium boreale 



iKtium alpinum 

 Ranunculus PalUisii 

 sa tifraga hircvlus 

 8. decipiens 

 hupinua nootkatensis 

 Phaca frigida 

 Parrya macrocarpa 



