232 HERMAN G. SIMMONS. 



almost entirely void of vegetation as far as flowering plants are 

 concerned; lichens also are generally very scarce. 



Among the new citizens of the Ell esm er eland-flora dis- 

 covered that year I will hold up Chrysosplenimn tetrandrum, 

 as this species is especially interesting because it is unknown 

 throughout the whole of Greenland. Saxifraga Hirculus, 

 first met with in Framfjord, was fairly common in the district 

 which was investigated in 1900. This species is absent from 

 most parts of Greenland, but is yet found in the far north 

 of the east coast. Chrysosplenium was found in the outer 

 part of the Hamn fjord on the talus below a rock, where the 

 glaucous gull had a breedingplace. In the same locality, higher 

 up on the ledges two other species also had their only habitat 

 in E 1 1 e s m e r e 1 a n d, viz. Ranunculus af finis and Arnica alpina. 

 Other new discoveries were: Saxifraga aizoides, Arenaria 

 ciliata var. humifusa, Alsine Rossii, Carex pedata, C. rupestris. 

 G. ustulata, G. capillaris, Kohresia caricina. As far as I can 

 judge at present a considerable number of species of cryptogamic 

 plants were added to the collections. 



On Aug. 9th 1900 we again left our winterquarters and 

 steered westward through Jones Sound, On the 11th a short 

 visit was made to the coast of North Devon in lat. 76° 7'N. 

 and long. 90° 28' W. I had only one opportunity of visiting 

 a rather low-lying peninsula formed entirely of siliceous lime- 

 stone and the débris thereof and consequently poor enough as 

 to plant life. Only 19 species of flowering plants and 25 num- 

 bers of cryptogams were collected or noted. 



An attempt to get further northwestward after having 

 steemed up through Cardigan Strait led to besetment in the 

 ice during the following days, nor till we had been detained 

 there for a month, thus losing a considerable part of the short 

 working-season, did we get free again on Sept. 16th and sought 

 for winterquarters at the bottom of the Go o se fjord. After our 

 arrival there I made some collections of lichens and also dredged 



