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Cassiope tetragona (D. Don.) Gentiana glauca Pall. 

 Desv. Geum glaciate Fisch. 



Diapensia lapponica L. 



Herald Island 

 On Herald Island the common polar cryptogamous vegetation 

 is well represented and developed. So also are the flowering 

 plants, almost the entire surface of the island, with the e6cception 

 of the sheer, crumbling bluffs along the shores, being quite 

 tellingly dotted and tufted with characteristic species. The 

 following list* was obtained : — 



Gymnandra Stelleri Cham. & Saxifraga sileniflora (Hook.) 



Schlecht. Sternb. 



Alopecurus alpinus Sm. Saxifraga bronchidlis L. 



Luzulahyperborea K. Br. " stellaris L. var. co- 



Salix polaris Wahlenb. mosa Poir. 



Stellaria longipes Goldie var. Saxifraga rivularis L. var. hy- 



Edwardsii T. & G. perborea Hook. ~ 



Papaver nudicaule L. Saxifraga hieracifoUa Waldst. 



Draba alpina L. & Kit. 



Saxifraga punctata L. Potentilla frigida Vill.? 



" serpyllifolia Pursh. Senecio frigidus Less. 



Wrangell Land 

 Our stay on the one point of Wrangell Land that we touched 

 was far too short to admit of making anything like as full a 

 collection of the plants of so interesting a region as was desirable. 

 We found the rock formation where we landed and for some 

 distance along the coast to the eastward and westward to be 

 a close-grained clay slate, cleaving freely into thin flakes, with 

 here and there a few compact, metamorphic masses that rise 

 above the general surface. Where it is exposed along the shore 

 bluffs and kept bare of vegetation and soil by the action of the 



* Berthold Seemann, botanist of H. M. S. Herald in 1849, reported the finding 

 of eight plants on a width of thirty feet of shore, which, he says, "was the whole 

 extent we had to walk over." The plants were the following: Artemisia borealis, 

 Cochleria feneslrala, Saxifraga lameniiniana, Poa arctica, and another undetermined 

 grass, Hepalica, a moss, and red lichen covering the rocks. [Editor.] 



