Insect Life on the Western Arctic Coast of America 7 K 



Apart from mosses and grasses and Cyperacse whose first new leaves are 

 less easily noticed, new leaves and buds were found on plants as follows: 



CAMDEN BAY TO DEMARCATION POINT, 1914 



May 1-10 



Cerastium alpinum 

 Empetrum nigrum 

 Ledum palustre 

 Cassiope tetragona 



May 21-31 



Arenaria peploides } 

 Martensia maritima J-buds only. 

 Potentilla pulchella ) 

 Saxifraga decipiens 

 Papavrr nudicaule 

 Cochlearia groenlandica 

 Oxytropis nigrescent 



June 11-20, New leaves: 



Salix pulchra 



S. reticulata 



Ranunculus nivalis 



Anemone parviflora 



Taraxacum lyratum 



Artemisia comata 



Papaver nudicaule 



Dryas integrifolia 



Lupinus nootkatensis (buds only) 



Alopecurus alpinus 



Carex stans. 



Primula borealis 



Elymus mollis 



Epilobium latifolium 



May 11-80 



Vaccinium caespitosum 



Oxytropia nigrescens } 



Betula glanduloaa \ leaf-buds only. 



Pedicular is lanata } 



Saxifraga oppositifolia (new leaves, 



1'i'tie developed). 

 S. hieracUfolia 

 Dryas inteyrifolia 



June 1-10, New leaves: 

 Various Caryophyllacea 



Saxifraga (e.g. S. bronchialis 



S tricuspidata) 

 Compositse 

 Pedicularis lanata 

 Pyrola grandiflora 

 Ovyria digyna 

 Caltha palustris 

 Equisetum arvense (buds only) 

 Salix pulchra (only buds) 

 JCippuris vulgaris (only buds) 



June 21-30, New leaves : 

 Equisetum arvense 

 Stellaria longipes 

 Silene acaulis 

 Polemonium boreale 

 Petasites frigida 

 Lloydia serotina 

 Rubus chamaemofus 

 Empetrum nigrum 



From July onward all the plants have new leaves. 



Flowers of the following plants were found. See also Vascular Plants 

 Collected in Arctic North America by the "Gjoa" Expedition (Ostenfeld, 1910). 



June 3-4 



Salix pulchra (female) 

 Eriophorum vaginatum 

 Saxifraga oppositifolia 



June 11-15 



Salix pulchra (male) 

 Lycopodium selago 

 Ranunculus nivalis 

 Anemone parviflora 

 Salix Richardsonii (male and feraa,le) 



June 17-20 



Salix rotundi folia (male and female) 

 S. ovalifolia var. camdensis (male 



and female) 

 Cochlearia groenlandica 

 Oxyria digyna 

 Oxytropis nigrescens 

 Potentilla pulchella 

 Pedicularis lanata 

 Dryas integrifolia 



June 21-21 



Draba alpina, D. fladnizensis 

 Oxytropis nigrescens 



June 27-28 

 Papaver nudicaule 

 Cassiope tetragona 



Primula borealis 

 Lloydia serotina 

 Pedicularis arctica 

 Ranunculus sulphureus 

 Caltha palustris 

 Petasites frigida 

 Salix reticulata 

 Saxifraga nelsoniana 



June 29-30 



Pedicularis sudetica 

 Carex rariflora 

 Polygonum viviparum 

 Luzula nivalis 

 Alsine arotica 

 Silene acaulis 



July 2-7 



Eriophorum angustifolium 

 E. Scheuchzeri 

 Carex rigida 

 Lagotis glauca 

 Polemonium boreale 

 Cerastium alpinum 

 Ranunculus Pallasii 

 Saxifrafja hircvJus 

 S. decipiens 

 Lupinus nootkatensis 

 Phaca frigida 

 Parrya macrocarpa 



