264 .R. BROWN, FLORULA DISCOANA. 



the rare visitors and wayfaring-men along this dreary coast. 

 Much debris has been brought down by this creek as it dashes 

 from the mountain and the inland ice of Disco Island (for it is 

 situated on the opposite shore of the Waigatz Strait, as are also 

 the two next localities mentioned), and bursts though the sedi- 

 mentary strata which lie in its way. 



(10.) KudlescBt—L^i. 70° 5' 35'' N., long. 52° 32' W. (approx.) 

 — This was the most ["northern locality reached by us in 1867. 

 Here are green mossy slopes, but as the sun does not reach this 

 ppot for several hours in the day, the vegetation, even on the 27th 

 of August, was backward. Here several streams flow down and 

 form a marshy flat at one place before reaching the sea. On this 

 wet ground, and on the sandy " links " which skirt the coast for 

 a few yards in breadth at this place, I found one or two plants, 

 euch as Juncus triglumiSf L., Equisetvm variegatum, L., &c., 

 which, though not peculiar to the locality, are yet rather un- 

 common in this region. 



(11.) Godhavn or Lievely --'LQi. 69° 14' 58" N.,* long. 

 53° 24' 40" W. — This, little post, situated at the south-western 

 point of Disco Island, is perhaps the best known botanical locality 

 in all Greenland, having been a regular halting place for whalers 

 and the numerous Arctic Expeditions. Hence we find plants 

 from this locality figuring in all the lists hitherto published, and 

 containing some not in this catalogue, as by the time Ave arrived 

 (4th Sept.) vegetation had almost entirely disappeared. Tiie 

 settlement itself is built on an off-lying islet of syenite ; but on 

 the other side of the harbour on Disco Island, where the syenite 

 meets with that great trap dyke which, either in its main body 

 or in its offshoots, traverses the whole breadth of the island of 

 Disco and the Noursoak peninsula, there is a " warm " stream of the 

 same character as that on the island near Egedesminde, already 

 described. This stream falls into the harbour, flowing through 

 ft little green valley called Lyngemarken (or the " heath field "), 

 backed by huge fells of trap. This Lyngemarken is the best 

 botanical locality which I have yet seen in Greenland. Though 

 most of the plants had faded down in this valley, yet, from what 

 I was able to identify, or from other small collections, it appears 

 to be very rich in species. The most characteristic plants arc 

 Salix glauca, Bctula nana (seldom over one foot high), liliodo- 

 dendron lapponicum, Cassiopeia tetragona, Empetrum nigrum, 

 Saxifraga tricuspidata, S. Aizoon, S. ccespitosa, S. rivularis. 

 Azalea procumbens, Gnaplialium norvegicum, Veronica alpina, 

 Arnica alpina, Bartsia alpina, Campanida unijiora, Epilohiiim 

 angustifolium, E. latifolium, Dryas octopetala var. iniegiifolia, 

 Papaver nudicaule, Pediculaiis Jlammea , Silene acaulis, Armeria 

 maritima, Alchemilla vulgaris, &c. ; and among Cryptogamia, 



* Graah gives the lat. as 69° 14' 22,'' while the late Lieut. Ulrich (in 

 general a very good observer), according to a meridian altitude given me by 

 the Royal Chart-0fl5ce of Denmark, states it as 69° 13' 30" N. ; but as Capt. 

 Graah's position and mine agree so closely, I believe that we are nearer the 

 truth. 



