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south and west of Langton bay have small spruce running a mile or two 
up their valleys. 
“The country as a whole is rather barren in some places, stony in others, 
or sandy, cut up by gullies into a sort of “Bad lands” formation. 
“The northern half of the Cape Parry peninsula is mostly a yellowish 
rock formation, like much of the coast of southern Victoria island, and 
along the south side of Amundsen gulf, but much cut up by deep and 
narrow fjords.1. The backbone of the peninsula is a high ridge running 
close to the west side of Darnley bay; the lower, or southern half of the 
peninsula being mostly low land interspersed with numerous small lakes, 
often connected with narrow, winding channels. This low land is well 
covered with grasses and tundra mosses.” 
From cape Lyon to the vicinity of Clifton point the coast is made up 
largely of diabase and dolomite cliffs. Farther east the dolomite occurs both 
along the coast and inland, until the southern part of Coronation gulf is reached. 
The following plants were collected at Clifton point by Mr. D. Jenness and 
the late Rev. H. Girling, viz.: Elymus mollis, Anemone parviflora, Papaver 
nudicaule, Draba alpina, Saxifraga oppositifolia, 8. tricuspidata, Potentilla 
emarginata, Oxytropis campestris var. sordida, O. arctobia, Androsace Chamae- 
jasme, Phlox Richardsonti, Mertensia Drummondit, Pedicularis lanata, Erigeron 
compositus, Artemisia sp., Taraxacum ceratophorum. No other observations 
or collections of plants were made between cape Bathurst and Young point by 
the Canadian Arctic expedition. 
After the Southern Party of the Canadian Arctic expedition sailed from 
winter quarters at Bernard harbour, we were stopped by the ice for several 
days near Young point, which gave me an opportunity to make some observa- 
tions and to collect plants, etc., there. The coast is exceedingly stony, with 
dolomite outcrops, or low cliffs with much debris and gravel. Nearest the 
beach there is no vegetation at all and farther back it is limited to lichens and 
mosses on the debris or in holes between the stones and is best developed in 
moist places. Here and there, especially in shelter of boulders, are a few tufts 
of Dryas integrifolia and Saxifraga tricuspidata. Farther inland the vegetation 
gets a little better, especially in depressions where ponds are situated and on the 
swampy tundra surrounding or connecting these. Plants typical of gravelly 
dry ground and rocks predominate and, though the same species as at Bernard 
harbour occur, the vegetation is decidedly poorer than at the latter place. 
Only of grasses, carices, salices and three Sazifraga species, viz.: S. oppositi- 
folia, 8. tricuspidata, S. decipiens var. groenlandica, did I find rather big pil- 
lows; the other plants were often represented only by a single specimen or a 
few small ones. The small fern Cystopteris fragilis was a typical plant growing 
in moist places, in cracks in the dolomite rocks or on debris, between pieces of 
which the compressed rhizomes of the plant were squeezed in in a most striking 
manner. On drier ground Sazifraga cernua grew between stones in the same 
manner as this fern. Both plants were rather common, though occurring in 
limited numbers. 
The following plants were collected there, viz.: Cystopteris fragilis, Hiero- 
chloe pauciflora, Alopecurus alpinus, Arctagrostis latifolia, Eriophorum Scheuch- 
zert, Carex rigida, Luzula sp., Salix anglorum, 8. reticulata, Silene acaulis, Lychnis 
apetala, Stellaria longipes var. Edwardsii, Cerastium alpinum, Alsine sp., Papaver 
nudicaule, Draba alpina, Eutrema Edwardsii, Saxifraga cernua, S. Hirculus, 8. 
decipiens var. groenlandica, S. tricuspidata, Dryas integrifolia, Pedicularis sude- 
tica, Chrysanthemum integrifolium, Senecio palustris var. congestus 
1See Plate VIII, fig. 1, in Vol. IIT, Pt. K, of these reports. 
