282 Appendix B. 



NOTE BY J. D. HOOKER, C.B., P.R.S. 



APTAIN MARKHAM'S collection contains twenty 

 species of flowering plants, including four collected 

 by Dr. Bessels in the highest latitude from which 

 flowering plants have hitherto been obtained, namely 82° X. 

 They are Draba alpi/ia, Cerastiam alpinum, Taraxacum 

 Dens-leonis, and Poa flcxuosa. All of them are common 

 Arctic plants, being found on both coasts of Greenland, as 

 well as throughout the Parry Islands. Of the other species, 

 collected by Captain Markham himself, the Arctic distribution 

 is well known. None of them belong to the remarkable 

 assemblage of Scandinavian plants which inhabit Greenland, 

 and of which no member has hitherto been found on the 

 eastern shores of Baffin's Bay. On the other hand, one of 

 them is a member of that far smaller number which has never 

 been found on the Greenland coast. This is the peculiar and 

 beautiful little Pleuropogon Sabini, the only genus which is 

 absolutely confined to the Arctic regions, and of which the 

 solitary species is restricted in its distribution to the Arctic 

 American Islands. It was discovered by Captain, now 

 General Sir Edward, Sabine, in Melville Island, during Parry's 

 first voyage in 1819-20, and is probably found in all the 

 islands. Captain Markham's specimen was gathered on Fury 

 Beach. 



The other species call for no special remark. They are 

 'interesting as, in several cases, coming from places where the 

 same plant had not previously been gathered. These locali- 

 ties are valuable, as completing our knowledge of the area 

 inhabited by such species, though they do not materially 

 enlarge it. 



