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6) Small collections of various plants brought home from the 

 lands west of El le s m ere land by some of the sledging 

 parties. 



The following table will give an idea of the material con- 

 tained in the collections. 





.S «3 

 fa 



tö 



^ s 



Co Co 



o O 

 o 



02 



Cfi 

 «2 

 O 



Marine 

 algae. 



1 ^ 



P cd 

 tn— < 



<ü CO 



«J 



c 



OJ 



-G 

 w 



bo 



C 

 fa 



lå 

 'o 



Danish West 

 Greenland . . . 



65 



2 



16 



32 



6 



2 



2 



125 



Foulkefjord, NW. 

 Greenland . . . 



126 



4 



70 



20 



16 



10 



6 



252 



Ellesmereland . . 



854 



32 



1433 



156 



199 



656 



56 



3386 



Various localities 

 (N. Devon etc.) . 



33 



^ 



153 



— 



35 



80 



— 



301 



Total . . 



1078 



38 



1672 



208 



256 



748 



64 



4064 



In many cases several species will be found under the same 

 number where lower cryptogams are concerned, sometimes also 

 different formes may have been confounded in the critical genera 

 of flowering plants, many parasitic fungi can yet be detected on 

 the higher plants and the marine algae collected last summer 

 are not numbered, as also about 150 numbers from the catalogue 

 are absent from the above table ; therefore it can be taken as a 

 fact, that the total sum of numbers in the collections will be 

 brought up above 5000. At an average of 10 specimens to 

 each number (the mosses doubtless will bring the average up 

 so far) this would give 50 000 specimens. Together with my 

 annotations of species from localities where the plants in ques- 

 tion are not collected, I hope this result of the botanical work 

 of the expedition will make it possible to give a tolerably suffi- 

 cient picture of the vegetation of Ellesm ereland and the other 

 regions we have visited. At present the number of vascular 



