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Expedition of 1894^) and 2) the preliminary report of 

 H.G.Simmons (2^1'^ Norwegian Polar Expedition 1898- 

 190 2)'^). If we consult these publications, we will find, that 

 all the species collected by Mylius Erichsen and Knud Balle 

 have been earlier recorded from NW.-Greenland, not all from 

 the part between 76° Lat. N. and 77° Lat. N., but at least from 

 78°— 79° Lat. N. (Foulke-Fjord etc.). 



Therefore the following list is not of great value, but as 

 Cape York and Wolstenholme-Sound are not so well investigated 

 as Foulke-Fjord, it seems appropriate lo publish it. The two 

 plants from the new-discovered islands in Melville-Bay are 

 naturally of special interest, as nothing was known with regard 

 to the flora of this connecting stretch of land. 



Among the plants there are some interesting species. The 

 following remarks are the most noteworth: 



1. Saxifraga ßageüaris had hitherto not been found as far South 

 in W. -Greenland. 



2. Salix arctica Pallas, f. groentandica Anders. In NW.-Green- 

 land mostly the typical 5. arctica with broad-obovate leaves 

 is recorded , but the specimens collected by Balle agree 

 well with the more broad-leaved specimens of f. groenlandica, 

 such as this form occurs in Danish Greenland. 



3. The collection contains some specimens of an interesting 

 Potmtilla, which perhaps is identic with P. rubricaulis Lehm.; 

 but as I know that Mr. H. G. Simmons, while working 

 with his rich collections from the 2. Norwegian Polar Expedi- 

 tion is studying this form, I do not enter more into the 

 question. 



M List of Plants obtained on the Peary Auxiliary Expedition of 1894. 

 Collected by Dr. H. Emerson Wetherill. Determined at the Herbarium 

 of Harvard University. — Bull. Nr. 5 of the Geographical Club of Phila- 

 delphia. 



■-) Simmons, Herman G. Preliminary report on the botanical work of 

 the second Norwegian polar expedition 1898—1902. — Nyt Magazin f. 

 Naturv., vol. 41. 1903. Christiania. 



