1898-1902. No. 19.] STRAY CONTRIBUT. TO THE BOTANY OF N. DEVON. 5 



I. North Devon. 



Certain parts of the large island of North Devon were visited during 

 the FRANKLIN Search expeditions and some plants brought home by 

 members of them. These collections, however, are made quite casually 

 by officers not specially entrusted with botanical work, and in most cases 

 only a few specimens have been brought home from each place. The 

 only station for which perhaps a somewhat more comprehensive list 

 might be compiled from the specimens in the London collections, is 

 Beechey Island the first winter-quarter of the ill-fated FRANKLIN Expe- 

 dition and afterwards the rendez-vous for the different parties engaged 

 in the search for the missing expedition. Further, some collections were 

 made at other points of the same neighbourhood, and along the shore 

 of the Wellington Channel Dr. M'CORMICK and others observed or col- 

 lected a few plants. The north coast, however, was in great part not 

 even mapped out in 1900, and, when we first visited it, not a single note 

 about its flora existed. 



The contributions to the botany of N. Devon were brought home 

 from the following points: 



1. Boat Cape lat. 75 58' long. 90 25' 



2. Point in Viks Fjord 75 52' 90 45' 



3. Bottom of Viks Fjord 75 57' 91 40' 



4. Low ness in West Fjord 76 8' 90 10' 



5. Cape Vera 76 13' 89 25' 



6. Near large glacier 76 17' 89 40' 



7. Mount Belcher 76 29' 90 54' 



1. Boat Cape. 



This locality was visited by a party on July 26, 1901, and Mr. SCHEI 

 noted here Dryas integrifolia in flower and plenty of Salix arctica'. 

 He also brought home a little collection which contained : Papaver 



