FUTLffi 



Collected by H. G. Simmons on the 2"^^ Norwegian 



Polar Expedition, 1898—1902. 



Determined 



by 



E. Rostrup. 



JVLost of the collecting was done on Ellesmere Land (indicated by 

 E in the list), a smaller number of specimens having come from the 

 west coast of Greenland (indicated by G in the list). Out of the 80 

 species given in the following list, 73 belong to Ellesmere Land, whence 

 also come all the 8 new species of fungi of which a description is 

 here given. The fungi brought home, with a few exceptions, are asso- 

 ciated with the phanerogamous vegetation — the very great majority 

 with dead stalks and leaves of plants — and are less frequently found 

 as true parasitic fungi. It is therefore more especially Sphaeriacese and 

 Sphseropsideae (pycnidial forms) that are represented in the following 

 list. Many of these fungi that are associated with particular hosts, 

 occur so frequently that it is not easy to find a specimen of those 

 plants that has not its last year's stalks or withered leaves occupied 

 by numerous perithecia and pycnidia. Many of the fungi recorded 

 from a single locality, especially those of the genera Pleospora and 

 Sphserella, are really found wherever the hosts are met with. In the 

 case of these species, the locality given only indicates the particular 

 places in which the fungus was submitted to a careful microscopical 

 examination. 



