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must have looked out well to have been able to find so many species 

 early in the year before the snow had gone away. Besides, he thought 

 he had seen some more, especially Empetrum nigrum which, however, 

 was not present in the collection. 



2. Whit Sunday Bay. 



Mr. SCHEI camped here, May 26, 1901, and made a collection of 

 flowering plants containing: Potentilla pulchella, Saxifraga cernua, 

 Chamaenerium latifolium, Hesperis Pallasii, Melandrium affine, 

 Stellaria longipes, Alsine verna, Salix arctica, Festuca ovina (all in 

 2755). 



3. Skraling (Eskimo) Point. 



The collection of Mr. SCHEI from this point was made May 17, 1901, 

 and contains: Potentilla pulchella, Melandrium affine, Stellaria 

 longipes, Alsine verna, Luzula arcuata var. confusa, Poa cenisia 

 (all in 2753). 



4. Vicinity of Black Wall. 



Visited by Mr. SCHEI, May 11, 1902. His collection consists only 

 of Luzula nivalis (4121) and some lichens. 



5. Rens Fjord. 



Mr. FOSHEIM who together with Captain SVERDRUP turned back from 

 here, May 5, 1900, made a little collection which was found to embrace 

 three flowering plants, Saxifraga oppositifolia, Papaver radicatum, 

 and Festuca ovina, besides some lichens and, according to BRYHN, Bryo- 

 phyta, p. 187, the following mosses: Dicranum congestum, Ditrichum 

 flexicaule, Rhacomitrium lanuginosum, Timinia austriaca, Polytri- 

 chum alpinum, P. piliferum (all in 1905). 



With this, 1 have to finish my small contribution to the knowledge 

 of the botanical features of Heiberg Land. At present, its flora is known 

 to consist of 34 flowering plants and 15 mosses, besides some unexamined 

 lichens. A certain interest attaches to one of the phanerogams, viz., He- 

 speris Pallasii, which is not found in the south coast of Ellesmereland. 

 Its occurrence at Whit Sunday Bay 1 seems to imply that it has reached 

 middle and northern Ellesmereland by way of Heiberg Land. The east 



1 By mistake I have, in my Fl. Ellesm., p. 78, mentioned it for Hyperite Point 

 instead. 



