418 BOTANICAL GAZETTE [ DECEMBER 
the three camps given in the list of localities Camp I was near 
Wilcox head and near the open sea, Camp 2 was midway 
between the open sea and the ice front, and Camp 3 was near 
the ice front. It was from Camp 3 that excursions were made 
to the Devil’s Thumb and to Mt. Schurman.?. The latter, about 
seven miles inland from the ice front, is a mountain covered 
with ice except its summit. From the observations made by 
the party it seems certain that this mountain top was recently 
entirely covered by the ice cap. It is interesting on this account 
to notice the plants that have found their way to the mountain. 
This is the list : 
Savastana alpina Potentilla emarginata 
Carex Bigelovit Cassiope tetragona 
Juncoides hyperboreum Vaccinium uliginosum microphyllum 
Papaver alpinum Antennaria alpina 
Cardamine bellidifolia 
These are all perennial plants. In every case but few specimens 
of each species were seen, although all are abundant along the 
Greenland coast and for the most part throughout the arctic 
regions. Antennaria is the only one with appendages upon the 
fruit for wind dissemination, and Vaccinium alone has fleshy 
fruits. All have minute seeds. The cliffs of the mountains are 
bavorite nesting places for birds, and no doubt they carry seeds 
across the ice and leave them upon the mountain. Such as 
have the hardiness to do so germinate and maintain themselves, 
all others perish. 
PLANTS COLLECTED IN LABRADOR AND BAFFIN’S LAND. 
Phippsia algida (Soland.) R. Br. Turnavik ; Big island. 
Savastana alpina (Sw.) Scribn. Turnavik; Big island. 
Trisetum subspicatum (LL) Beauv. Big island. 
Elymus arenarius L. Cumberland sound. 
Carex brunnescens (Pers.) Poir. Turnavik. 
Carex glareosa Wahl. Turnavik. 
Specimens much larger than those from Greenland. 
2A map of the region about the nee’ peninsula will be found. Bull. Geol- 
Soe. | asco alec — 
Ce ee i 
