284 DK. LINDSAY ON THE LICHEN-FLORA OF GREENLAND. 



XXXV.— The Lichen-Flora of Greeniand, with Re- 

 marks on the Lichens of other Arctic Regions. By 

 W. Lauder Lindsay, M.D., F.R.S.E., F.L.S. 



[ Reprinted, by Permission, from the Transactions of the Botanical 

 Society of Edinburgh, vol. x., pp. 32-65. Read January 14, 

 1869.] ^ 



I. Introduction. 



My attention was drawn to the Lichen-flora of Greenland by 

 being requested, in the winter of 1867-8, by my friend Robert 

 Brown, Ph.D., F.R.G.S., to examine and determine the Lichens 

 collected by him in West Greenland in the course of the " West 

 " Greenland Exploring Expedition " of 1 867. On studying, in 

 connexion with the determination of the species submitted to me, 

 the literature of Greenland Lichenology, I was surprised to find 

 that there is not on record any separate and modern list of the 

 Lichens of that country. It has occurred to me to endeavour to 

 supply this want in lichenological literature by drawing up the 

 Enumeration, hereto appended, of all Lichens up to this date 

 found, or recorded as having been found, in Greenland, compiled 

 from all the sources of information accessible to me. 



The basis of the said list is a catalogue of the Lichens collected 

 by Dr. Brown. But it includes also all those mentioned as oc- 

 curring in Greenland by Th. M. Fries in his "Lichenes Arctoi 

 " Europae Grcenlandiaeque." * This work includes a record of 

 all the Greenland Lichen-collections of Danish botanists, by whom 

 chiefly contributions to its Lichen-flora have been made. The 

 largest and most important of these collections appears to have 

 been that of J. Vahl, which was made exclusively on the west 

 coast, as was also Dr. Brown's. Minor collections were made by 

 Rink and Wormskiold. 



The localities of Dr. Brown's collections were chiefly on, or in 

 the vicinity of. Disco Island. They have been elsewhere particu- 

 early specified.f The additional localities mentioned by Fries 

 include the following, which, having no means of ascertaining 

 ^;heir exact geographical position, I arrange in alphabetical order : — 



AUuk, Amaralik, Amitsuarsuk. Okivisekan. 



Godhaab. 



Pakitsok (Jakobshavn dis- 



Holsteinborg and district — 



trict). 



including Ikkatok. 



Sarmalik, Serkunsuk, Syd- 



Isortok. 



ostbugten (district). 



Julianehaab. 



Tiksulik, Tunnudliarbik, 



Kukiarsuk. 



Tessarmiut. 



Neunese, Njarasurksoit, Ne- 



Umanak, Upernavik. 



nortalik. 



Wajgattet [Waigat]. 



I have also included in my Enumeration all Greenland localities, 

 or Lichens, recorded in the following works or papers : — 



1. Crantz : " History of Greenland " (1820). His list of 

 Lichens (p. 318) is unimportant and very meagre, not amounting 



* Trans. Royal Society of Sciences, Upsala, series iii. vol iii. 1860. 



t " Observations on Greenland Lichens." — Trans. Lin. Soc. xxvii. (1869). 



