112 ON THE BOTANY OF THE BRITISH POLAR EXPEDITION. 



and Care.v nardina were not met with north of Bessel's Bay, 

 the remainder occurring in Polaris Bay. All Greenland yielded 

 132 species, and one only, Braya alpina, was not found south 

 of the Humboldt Glacier. Districts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 10, 11 belong 

 to Greenland. 



Grinnell Land contains 69 species. A quotation from Professor 

 Fries' paper " On the Lichens of the English Polar Expedition," 

 before alluded to, will render this part of the subject more 

 interesting. He remarks : " As for the phanerogamous plants, 

 Prof. A. J. Malmgren has already shown that nine species at the 

 most are found on the western coast of Smith Sound ; and no one 



of these iv as found to the north of Cape Isabella, situated a little beyond 



78° north lat." Although this land extends through nearly four 

 degrees of latitude, and was well botanized over in many places, 

 every species gathered in it was to be met with in Discovery Bay, 

 the districts north and south of that favoured locality adding none. 

 All the flowers met with on the opposite coast north of the 

 Humboldt Glacier also occur in Discovery Bay. These circum- 

 stances are especially interesting, showing as they do in what a 

 marvellous manner one sheltered and favoured locality will 

 preserve a flora for an enormous area: let the climate improve, 

 and the Discovery Bay flora may spread by seed, &c, in all 

 directions ; but had it not found a haven there, numbers of species 

 would be missing for diffusion— so accidental may be the original 

 sources of the botanical wealth of a country. 



Grinnell Land contained four species which were not found 

 elsewhere— Phippsia abjida, Armaria amnlandica, Androsace sep- 

 tentrtonalis, and Deschampsia ccespitosa ; of these, however, the first, 

 ana 1 believe the first two, are known to occur in North Greenland 

 on the west coast, and the latter has been gathered on its east coast. 



districts 8 7 1 e ^ tenils from lat 79 ° 15 ' 10 ***. 83° 9', and includes 



Ellesmere Land, south of Hayes Sound, was only visited in a 

 few places in lat. 78° 52' to lat. 78° 56'. Good collections were, 

 nowever, made here, and two ferns from Hayes Sound, Woodsia 

 hperborea and W ylabella, were gathered nowhere else. A com- 

 wT? be + we en the floras of Grinnell Land and Ellesmere Land 

 leads to the following results-Ellesmere Land yielded eleven 

 species not met with in Grinnell Land :— 



Ranunculus sulphureus Carex alpina 



Potentilla anserma Hierochloe alpina 



V accmium uhginosum Woodsia hyperborea 



Cassiopeia tetragona W . glabella 



Pedicul aris flammea Lycopodium Selago 

 Empetrum nigrum 



n«rtwfS5 - SpecieS ? ayes Sound m^vs to be an effectual 

 ban ?i vti?' 1C1 ' ; ° n *fc ? ther W ' Gri ™ el l Land has no less 



ElLn^?nf P i 8Cie -« WluC ? m n0t occur t0 its south > iu N ° rt ^ 

 from D?ln^ tS ^ Z - few exce Ptions, these are only recorded 

 Horn Discovery Bay m Grinnell Land :— 



