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that he has recorded some species not previously known from these 

 regions. Such are to be found especially among the plants from "Tes- 

 siussak" which I have also quite excluded from my lists of occurrence; 

 two species of DURAND'S list thus disappear entirely, viz. Campanula 

 rotundifolia and Lycopodium annotinum. From Netlik (which was not 

 visited July 12th), there are some doubtful statements also, especially 

 Alchemilla vulgaris, which I have, however, entered with hesitation. 

 Some of the Netlik and Port Foulke plants have indeed never been 

 found again there by other collectors, but, as they are found in adja- 

 cent regions, they may still grow there. Such are "Armeria vulgaris" 

 (Statice maritima), Betula nana, and Tofieldia palustris. 



Cases in which I have not excluded a species doubtless wrongly 

 determined, but have only altered the name as I have thought right, 

 may be seen in the following, from the special synonymies under each 

 species. 



Still there would be a certain interest in knowing where the plants 

 from "Tessiussak, Sept. 4", are really collected. Now the newer maps 

 of the region, the English Admiralty Chart of 1896, as well, as the new 

 Greenland map published by Commissionen for Ledelsen av de geolo- 

 logiske og geographiske Undersogelser i Grenland, 1906, know no such 

 place in the region north of Melville Bay; but in the map accompa- 

 nying HAYES, Arct. boat journ., there is a place so named at the north 

 side of Wolstenholme Sound or in Granville Bay (the map is very 

 inaccurate). This place might have been visited during the journey north- 

 ward in 1860, even if no visit there is mentioned by HAYES, but cer- 

 tainly not in 1861. At all events, such plants as the above-mentioned 

 do not appear there. It is more probable indeed, that the species in 

 question and some more, may have been collected at the Danish out- 

 post (Udliggersted) of Tasiusak in lat. 73 21', when HAYES visited it 

 in 1860. 



Opposed to this supposition, on the other hand, is the fact mentio- 

 ned by DURAND, I. c., p. 93, that some plants, among them Lycopodium 

 annotinum, only recorded from the dubious "Tessiussak", were brought 

 home in a living state. These cannot have been taken so early as the 

 first year. Most probably they were collected at some of the last points 

 that were visited Upernivik, with its environs, and Godhavn. MALM- 

 GREN, 1. c., p. 174, thinks the latter place the most likely to be the one, 

 from which HAYES tried to bring home a living collection of arctic 

 plants, and I can only agree with him. The name "Netlik" also is ab- 

 sent from the new maps; but in the same place where it occurs in the 



