48 H. G. SIMMONS. [SEC. ARCT. EXP. FRAM 



The Species of Vascular Plants in the Flora of 

 North- Western Greenland. 



In the following treatment of the different species I have followed 

 the same plan as in my Fl. Ellesm.; and, as by far the larger part of 

 the plants is common to both districts, I have not thought it necessary 

 to repeat such items as may easily be found there. Therefore I have 

 not here given a complete synonymic for species included in the Ellesmere- 

 land flora, but have only referred to the synonymic given in my previous 

 work. For species not treated there, I have given a synonymic on the 

 same plan as in Fl. Ellesm. It is, however, impossible in many cases 

 to give an exact synonymic, for I have not, seen all the specimens upon 

 which the identifications in the different papers concerning North- Western 

 Greenland are based, and therefore I have thought it best to insert, as 

 a "special synonymic" in [square brackets] the names used in these 

 treatises which I have, with more or less certainty, in some cases by 

 guess only, referred to the species in question. 



The list of literature at the end of the book, is only intended to be 

 an appendix to that of the Fl. Ellesm. where most of the works that 

 have reference to the vascular plants of Arctic America and Greenland 

 are enumerated. The abbreviations of the titles used in the text are 

 also to be found there, as I have not deemed it necessary to repeat the 

 whole bibliography and as the two floras will always have to be used 

 together. 



The statements about occurrence and distribution are made up in 

 the same manner as in my Fl. Ellesm., and when no account of the 

 latter is inserted here, it is to be found in that treatise. In the records 

 of occurrence I have used a "S" to signify the southern part (76 79) 

 and a "N" for the upper part of N. W. Greenland (from 80 northwards). 



