TORREYA 



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December, igii 

 Vol. II No. 12 



LIST OF PLANTS COLLECTED ON THE PEARY ARCTIC 



EXPEDITION OF 1905-06 AND 1908-09 WITH A 



GENERAL DESCRIPTION OF THE FLORA 



OF NORTHERN GREENLAND AND 



ELLESMERE LAND 



By p. a. Rydberg 



I. General Description of the Flora* 



By the courtesy of the American Museum of Natural History, 

 New York City, two small collections of arctic plants were turned 

 over to the New York Botanical Garden. These collections 

 were made on two of the Peary arctic expeditions in search of 

 the North Pole. The first and smaller was made on the expedi- 

 tion of 1905-06 by Dr. L. J. Wolf; the later and larger in 1908-09 

 by Dr. J. W. Goodsell. The two collections number together 

 60 species of flowering plants and ferns. Dr. Goodsell's col- 

 lection contained 95 numbers, but as he collected at five different 

 places many of the species were represented by more than one 

 number. Except of a few common species the duplicates were 

 not many. Some of the most striking or most characteristic 

 of the plants were exhibited at the American Museum of Natural 

 History at the Peary Exposition last year. The principal set 



* Most of this article was given as a paper before the Torrey Botanical Club 

 last year. Although the writer has never visited the arctic regions, more than half 

 of the species discussed are familiar to him from either the Scandinavian mountains 

 or the alpine regions of the Rockies. The general description and the statistics 

 are furthermore abstracted from two excellent works, not generally accessible, 

 viz., Meddelelser om Groenland, found only in a few libraries in this country and 

 printed in Danish, and the still rarer The Vascular Plants in the Flora of EUesmere 

 Land, by H. G. Simmons. As descriptions of the arctic regions are very rare, 

 especially in English, it seemed advisable to print this paper in connection with 

 the list. 

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