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



In general, the flowering plants appeared in single tufts or indi- 

 viduals in the open, bare ground; only Alopecurus formed a denser 

 vegetation in some small, boggy depressions, and Catabrosa along the 

 brooklets which were also bordered with mosses interspersed with some 

 flowering plants such as Ranunculus nivalis, Draba alpina var. gra- 

 cilescens, Luzula nivalis. In some parts of the interior plateau the 

 mosses were unusually predominant. BRYHN, Bryophyta, p. 21 1 213, 

 has found not less than 50 species in my collection which was made 

 during one single short excursion. Some of them occurred in great ab- 

 undance, as for instance Hypna, Brya, and others along the brooks and 

 in boggy places, Tortula ruralis in moist places among stones, and 

 especially Rhacomitrium canescens, which formed widespread mats over 

 the stone heaps of some of the slopes. Lichens also occurred in great 

 abundance, both those that form crusts on the stones, and the large 

 earth-lichens of bushlike genera, such as Cladonia, Cornicularia, Ce- 

 traria and others, besides Peltigera, Gyrophora-species, etc. As the 

 lichens are not yet treated of, I cannot enter further either upon them 

 or upon the fresh water algae. 



In 1902, on returning from Devils Isle, we visited the south-west 

 point of North Kent (2.), where I noted the following species of flowering 

 plants, forming a sparse vegetation in a clayish strip of foreland : - 

 Saxifraga oppositifolia, S. cernua, Draba alpina, Papaver radica- 

 tum, Stellaria longipes, Catabrosa algida. Later in the same day 

 (July 30), we camped in the large bight on the south coast of North 

 Kent (3.), where the foreland is formed of clay with a great many sub- 

 fossil shells, such as Saxicava rugosa, Mya truncata, and others, and 

 Lilhothamnia in abundance. The flora, however, was very poor, consi- 

 sting of a few tufts of Saxifraga oppositifolia, Papaver radicatum, 

 and Oxyria digyna. But here we were in a limestone district. 



Further towards the Hell Gate, however, there was a richer vege- 

 tation, as the high headland which forms the south-eastern extremity of 

 North Kent (4.) is inhabited by numerous birds, such for instance as gulls 

 and falcons. At this place, Falcon Point, I noted July 31, 1902, Pedi- 

 cularis hirsuta, Dryas integrifolia, Saxifraga oppositifolia, S. niva- 

 lis, S. groenlandica, S. cernua, Cardamine bellidifolia, Draba alpina, 

 D. subcapitata, Cerastium alpinum, Stellaria longipes, Alsine verna, 

 Polygonum viviparum, Salix arctica, Poa abbreviata, P. glauca f. 

 prolifera (4015), Glyceria distans (4013), G. angustata (4014). 



As, however, our stay at this point lasted only for a very short 

 time, while waiting for the ice to clear a passage over to Ellesmereland, 



