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ON THE BOTANY OF THE BRITISH POLAR 



EXPEDITION OF 1875-6. 



By Henry Chichester Hart, B.A., Naturalist to H.M.S. 



' Discovery.' 



Having been prevented by ill-health from working out the 

 materials which I collected while serving on board H.M.S. 'Dis- 

 covery,' I trust the following essay, though appearing later than I 

 could wish may not be devoid of interest. The acconnt given in 

 the appendix to Nares* Voyage* is so brief that it by no means 

 exhausts the subject; dealing, as it does, onlv with the collections 

 mule north of latitude 80°, and giving no account of the local 

 distribution or peculiar circumstances of growth and habitat which 

 can only lull under the notice of the collector himself 



My numerous field notes, which were accumulated from day to 

 day and the advantages which I have had in consulting collections 



SiL& T * ' D f 9 ' ¥° SS and G °Vmgev, have enabled me 



he vfvln, 1 ; f? Ch S reate Vl etail ' and to give separate accounts of 



w anous stations visited from Egedesminde, lat. G8° 42', to the 



kt. 83™ knd reached by the Ex P«^tion at Cape Columbia, 



ten^Zl b 1 ° taniStS Wh ° haVe gained their ex P^ence in our own 

 mafiKV 1 '^ 011 the European Alps, cannot easily 

 ftv oat W? 6 P w la f conditio » s of an Arctic flora. It 

 visited Z at vZ f a ° f S 6 mo, 2 SOutherl y P arts of Greenland 

 the smVn^l g ? T Ud6 ' DlSC °' Eitt enbank, and Proven, that 



and th cons rnf ™ y ii^°T e / ™ th Ve S etatio » for ^ ^tent, 

 thro noh 2 h?! S A ma r " tUf f P erenuials of low matted growth 

 theh b Uti tt% T tX i Wlll0WS 1 and Eficae «* trail and extend 

 chtf to a wu't „ fit T T ely risin ^ under the belter of a 



carLt wS is ^nl *1 f0 l ir feet ; Thr0U ^ h °* bro ™ ish Sreen 

 sZiolisanfL,„rf iu the hU % 0f an Irish mountain bog, oon- 

 / Wa and nff, bl ° SS ° mS 1 ° f ^ododmdrm, Azalea, lU^ensia, 



ETitTrS Plant8 ' are la vislily scattered Awhile 

 he SfrSfirS «£* e Sno ^; white Omikm and Stellariu, 



l"xu P nant S h 'ts'of do^hT Sh2& * - *^ <*** *"* 

 Scotch ^thar/^ t0 °« 



Veronica almm* mr^L „ x ^cts. Hue bliie flowers, as 



both in variety ai d Irntt •' , 1 * h i Chens ) "W^ diminishes, 



covered with t^? is ^Llvlef ? /f^f U *™«5* g™ nd 

 I'oulke Fiord a few valLfnln w "o' :md 0Ill y at low levels - 



