189S—1902. No.16.] FLOW. PLANTS AND FERNS OF N.-W. GREENLAND. 11 
expedition under the commando of Penny, visited, on August 10, 1850, 
Bushnan Island where Ross had also landed. SuTHertanp, who was 
a trained botanist, has given a list of the plants collected during the 
expedition, with localities mentioned for every species, most of which are, 
however, only collected to the west. 
SUTHERLAND again visited N. W. Greenland in 1852 as surgeon of 
the search-expedition under INGLEFieLp, where he probably took a large 
part in bringing together the collection of plants named in the “Notes of 
Flowering Plants and Algae” which forms one of the Appendices to Incue- 
FIELD's Summer Search. Some plants were, however, collected by the com- 
mander and other members of the expedition. Collections were made 
at Wolstenholme Sound and Whale Sound. Detailed information about 
the points in the first-mentioned inlet, where plants were collected, is 
wanting; but from some details and a small list of plants contained in 
the journal, it may be concluded where this collection was made (I. c., 
p. 99—62): “After running twenty-one miles from Cape Parry along the 
shore, huts were observed in a bight that proved to be a small deep water 
bay”. The place so designed can only be Burdin Bay, and, as no other 
landing in Inglefield Gulf is mentioned, I think the Whale Sound plants 
were all collected at Burdin Bay. 
Dr. E. K. Kane, who spent two years (1853—55) in N. W. Green- 
land, has made a good many notes about the flora and vegetation of 
the different points visited during the expedition, and a fairly extensive 
collection was brought home too, which had been gathered by himself 
and others, for instance the Danish interpreter Petersen. Kane had 
also made collections and notes when, in 1850, he visited the neighbour- 
hood of Cape York in the first Grinett-expedition under De Haven. 
His collections were given to Mr. Ertas Duranp who used them for his 
memoir “Plantae Kaneanae Groenlandicae”. It is, however, to be re- 
gretted that Kane was not more of a trained botanist, for he had an 
opportunity of examining parts of the coast never visited by any other 
explorer; and he had doubtless as well, a keen eye for detecting even 
the more insignificant species, and a greater interest in botany than most 
of the travellers in these regions. Now, many of his notes are deci- 
dedled based upon wrong identifications. Another unfortunate circum- 
stance is, that his collections, made partly in Danish Greenland, partly 
to the north, have doubtless in some cases been confounded during the 
difficult and hazardous retreat of the expedition after the abandonment 
of the ‘Advance’. Much had to be left behind; and even if, through 
Kane’s indefatigable exertions, as much was carried along in the boats 
