1898-1902. No. 2.] VASCULAR PLANTS OF ELLESMERELAND. 



tises, are of a very great interest. There are, however, especially per- 

 haps in the lastmentioned, not a few errors in the identification of 

 species, and doubtless, specimens from Danish Greenland have become 

 mixed with those of Ellesmefeland, so as to give rise to several false 

 statements of distribution. As I have had an opportunity of seeing 

 the specimens of Hart, Feilden, and others, now kept in the herbaria 

 of the Natural History Museum at London and at Kew Gardens, I have 

 been able to correct several errors, as will appear in the treatment of 

 the different species. 



I very much regret not to have had any opportunity of inspecting 

 the American collections. The most important of these is that of the 

 GREELY-expedition, made at the greatest part at Fort Conger in Lady 

 Franklin Bay and in its vicinity. The main collection of the expedi- 

 tion had necessarily to be left behind when the retreat southwards 

 began, and only Greely's "private collection" was transported to Smith 

 Sound and thence home. Where the specimens have come to anchor 

 I do not know, but the vascular plants are treated by Greely himself 

 in the Appendix 130, Botany of the Report of the expedition ; Asa Gray, 

 S. Watson and G. Vasey, however, have assisted him in the identifica- 

 tion of the species. Moreover there is a list of mosses and lichens by 

 Rev. E. Lehnert and A. W. Greely and some lists of specimens in 

 the collections. In his ''Three Years of Arctic Service" Greely also 

 gives the list of plants with a few additional notes. 



Later contributions are to be found in Wetherill, List 1894, where 

 the collections of the Peary Auxiliary Expedition of that year are treated, 

 containing a few plants from Cape Faraday and a greater number from 

 "north side of Jones Sound", viz., the neighbourhood of Smith and Cone 

 Islands at the mouth of Fram Fjord, where a landing was made. Fur- 

 ther I have named a few species new to Ellesmereland or, at least to 

 the southern parts of it in my Prel. Rep. and in the botanical appendix 

 to Sverdrup's Neues Land.^ 



Lastly Mr. Th. Holm of Brookland, D. C. has kindly sent me a 

 list of plants collected by the American geologist Dr. Stein in the Smith 

 Sound region. A few of them taken in Ellesmereland, will be men- 

 tioned in the following, the rest will be inserted in another paper about 

 the flora of North- Western Greenland which I am to prepare soon. 



' As I have only seen proof-sheets of the English edition, of which the editor has 

 not thought it necessary to send me any copy, I must always refer to the 

 German one, the editor of which, Mr. F. A. Brockhaus, has kindly sent me 

 copies. 



