242 DUKANT AND JAMES ON CKYJfTOGAMS. 



HEPATiCEiE. (T. P. James.) 



Ptilidium ciliare, Nees. Jungermannia divaricata, E. B. 



Sarcocyphus Ehrharti, Cord. J. squarrosa, Hook. 



Thallophytes. (T. p. James.) 



Cetraria Islandica, Ach. Cladonia rangiferina, Hoffm. 



Peltigera canina, Hoflfm. C. furcata, Floerk. 



Cladonia pyxidata, Fries. C. sp. 



XXXI. — Notice of Flowering Plants and Ferns col- 

 lected on both Sides of Davis' Strait and Baffin's 

 Bay. By Mr. James Taylor, Aberdeen. 



[Reprinted, by Permission, from the Transactions of the Bo- 

 tanical Society of Edinburgh, vol. vii., 1862, pp. 323-334. 

 Read 13 March 1862.] 



The Plants named in the following list were collected by me 

 in the course of five voyages made to Davis Strait, &c., as 

 surgeon on board whaling vessels in the years 1856-61. Some 

 of these years were more favourable for making such collections 

 than others. My time was often very limited, and the ground I 

 could explore much circumscribed by the short stay of the vessels 

 at particular localities. The vessels usually remained longest in 

 Cumberland Gulf, and accordingly the districts round about it 

 have been the most completely investigated. But with longer time 

 and more means at my disposal for making protracted excursions 

 into the interior, I have no doubt that the subjoined list could have 

 been very greatly increased. I have here given only the Flowering 

 Plants and Ferns. I collected a great many Mosses and Lichens, 

 but they have not yet been thoroughly examined. On the east 

 side of Davis Strait and Baffin's Bay, I have had opportunity of 

 exploring parts of the country from Disco Island to Wilcox 

 Point ; and on the west side my observations have extended with 

 some intervals, from Cumberland Inlet to Cape Adair, a little 

 north of Scott's Bay. It may be explained, that in the list, 

 E., or E. side, means Danish Greenland, and W., or W. side, the 

 islands lying to the west of Davis Strait and Baffin's Bay, forming 

 part of the Arctic islands of North America ; also, when any 

 particular place is named, it is to be understood as including the 

 district surrounding it. To obviate the necessity of giving lati- 

 tudes and longitudes in the list, it seems advisable to give here 

 the latitude and longitude of the prmcipal places named : — 



East side. 



N. Lat. 



W. Long. 



Disco island. 



- 69° 10' 



54° 30' 



Hasen or Hare Island, - 



- 70° 30' 



54° 15' 



Dark Head or Svarthuk, 



- 71° 40' 



56° 0' 



Upernavik, - _ - 



- 73*^ 25' 



57° 2& 



Wilcox Point, 



- 74° 18' 



58° 8' 



