Insect Life on the Western Arctic Coast of America 



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Apart from mosses and grasses and Cyperacae whose first new leaves are 

 less easily noticed, new leaves and buds were found on plants as follows: — 



CAMDEN BAY TO DEMARCATION POINT, 1914 



May 1-10 



Cerastium alpinum 

 Empetrum nigrum 

 Leduvi palustre 

 Oassiope tetragona 



May il-Sl 



Arenaria peploides ] 

 Martensia maritima ^buds only. 

 Potentilla pulchella j 

 Saxifraga decipiens 

 Pai^aver nudicaule 

 Cochlearia groenlandica 

 Oxytropis nigresaens 



June 11-20, New leaves : 



Salix pulchra 



S. reticulata 



Ranunculiis nivalis 



Anemone parvijiora 



Taraxacum lyratum 



Arl einisla coinata 



Papaver nudicaule 



Dr'nas inlegrifolia 



Lupinus nooticatensis (buds only) 



Alopecurus alpitius 



Carex stans. 



Primula horealis 



FAymus mollis 



Epilohium latijolium 



May 11-20 



Vaccinium, caesintosum 



Oxytropia nigrescens "I 



Betula glandulosa }■ leaf -buds only. 



Pedicularis lanata J 



Saxifraga oppositifolia (new leaves, 



little developed). 

 S. hieracvifolia 

 Dryas integrifoUa 



June 1-10, New leaves : 



Various Caryophyllacea 



Saxifraga (e.g. S. hronchialis 

 S tricuspidata) 

 " Compositse 

 Pedicularis lanata 

 Pyrola grandifiora 

 Oxyria digyna 

 Caltha palustris 

 EquisGtum arvense (buds only) 

 Salix pulchra (only buds) 

 llippurls vulgaris (only buds) 



June U-SO, New leaves : 

 EQUd-setU}n arvense 

 Stellaria longipes 

 Silene acaulis 

 Polemonium J)oreale 

 PetasUes frigida 

 Lloydia serotina 

 Ruhus cTiamaemoius 

 Empetrum, nigrum 



From July onward all the plants have new leaves. 



Flowers of the following plants were found. See also Vascular Plants 

 Collected in Arctic North America by the "Gjoa" Expedition (Ostenfeld, 1910). 



June S-i 

 Salix pulchra (female) 

 Eriophorum vaginatum, 

 Saxifraga oppositifolia 



June 11-15 

 Salix pulchra (male) 

 Lycopodium, sclago 

 Ranunculus nivalis 

 Anemone parviflora 

 Salix Richardsonii (male and fema.le) 



June 17-20 

 Salix rotundifolia (male and female) 

 S. ovalifolia var. camdensis (male 



and female) 

 Cochlearia groenlandica 

 Oxyria digyna 

 Oxytropis nigrescens 

 Potentilla pulchella 

 Pedicularis lanata 

 Dryas integrifoUa 



June 21-2), 

 Draba alpina, D. fladnizensis 

 Oxytropis nigrescens 



June 27-28 

 Papaver nudicaule 

 Cassiope tetragona 



Primula horealis 

 Lloydia serotina 

 Pedicularis arctica 

 Ranunculus sulphureus 

 Caltha palustris 

 Petasites frigida 

 Salix reticulata 

 Saxifraga nelsoniana 



June 29-30 

 Pedicularis siuletica 

 Co rex rariflora 

 Polygonum vivipatrum, 

 Luzula nivalis 

 Alsine arotica 

 Silene acaulis 



July 2-1 

 Eriophorum angustifolium 

 E. Scheucheeri 

 Carex rigida 

 Lagotis glauca 

 Polemonium, horeale 

 Cerastium alpinum 

 RammcnUus Pallasii 

 Saxifraga hircvAus 

 8. decipiens 

 Lupinus nooticatensis 

 Phaca frigida 

 Parrya macrocarpn 



