238 DESCRIPTION OF BERING ISLAND 



they have young ones that are completely covered with white 

 down. 



The sea in this region likewise has no fishes or other products 

 of the sea that do not occur in the waters laving the Kamchatkan 

 coasts. 



[Plants]i84 



Of plants I was not able to find more than 21 1 species during 

 my ten months' sojourn on this island although I spent the 

 greater part of a summer there and had to travel through all 

 parts of the island frequently. Among these there are over one 

 hundred that this island has in common not only with Siberia 

 but also with the mountain regions of Europe; the rest are like- 

 wise to be found practically in all of eastern Siberia, at least 

 on the mountains, or else about Okhotsk and in Kamchatka; 

 and among the latter there are several that Kamchatka has in 

 common with America and that, because they disappear towards 

 the interior of Siberia, seem to' be of American origin. But at 

 Cape St. Elias I collected several plants that are to be met with 

 neither on this island nor on Kamchatka.* Of shrubs there are to 



184 The source of this section is also not positively known. However, 

 unless it is a verbatim copy from some manuscript of Steller's, it may be 

 permissible to conjecture that it was in part abstracted by Pallas from 

 Steller's "Catalogus plantarum in insula Beringii observatarum 1742" 

 (see, above, p. 179, footnote 425). The plants enumerated in the present 

 section are listed in Steller's "Catalogus," and the number of species 

 there listed (218) agrees quite closely with the number here given (211). 

 Many of the edible plants and roots here enumerated are mentioned in 

 the passage in the MS journal quoted and annotated in footnote 425, 

 above. 



* Of this type [there are known to me or there have come into my 

 hands (the verb is missing)] from Steller's collection of plants especially 

 Mimulus hitciis, Tiarella trifoliata, Heuchera, a prickly kind of Croton, 

 and several Potentillae. Plants that are common to Kamchatka and 

 North America and that seem to be of American origin are especially 

 the following : Trillium ereclinn, Helleborus Irifolius, Claylonia, Sanguisorba 

 canadensis, Fumaria cucullaria, Pleris pedata, Polypodium fragrans, 

 Lycopodium rupestre, besides several other species partly not yet de- 

 scribed. — P. [Pallas, in separating out these categories, may also have 



