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contain I do not yet know, but plants from an even still higher latitude 
may exist among them). Only a few plants could, however, be discerned 
at Lockwood Island in May. — 
How much may be done, even in a short excursion, by a trained 
botanist, especially one who is well aquainted beforehand with arctic 
plants, is shown by the visit of Natsorst to Ivsugigsok near Cape York, 
where he went with the “Sofia” in 1883, while-his commander, Norpen- 
SKIOLD, was on his inland ice trip from the Aulaitsivik Fjord in Danish 
Greenland. Notwithstanding that it is an open coast locality, he was 
able, after an excursion of only a few hours’ duration, to make up a 
list of fifty-eight species. In comparison it may be mentioned, that the 
whole list for the wide district of Inglefield Gulf, contains only seventy- 
three species; and that none of the different collectors has there obtained 
a greater number than 46. It may, however, be taken for granted, that 
the flora at Inglefield Gulf, must be richer than in any other part of 
N. W. Greenland, and will yield, in the most favorable spots, even more 
than the Foulke Fjord list (see p. 20). 
Two lists of plants, collected during expeditions sent as relief parties 
to Peary during his work in N. W. Greenland, have been published. 
The first of these is based upon specimens collected in 1891 by Dr. 
Burk at Cape York and in M’Cormick Bay, Inglefield Gulf, and in 1892 
by Mr. Meewan who has treated these collections in a paper in the 
Proceed. Acad. Nat. Sc. of Philadelphia, 1893 (Contr. Greenl.). MerHan 
enumerates a good many localities where he has botanized, but from 
several of them not a single plant is mentioned in his accounts of dis- 
tribution which, moreover, are very imperfect. Another weak point of 
Meguan’s paper is, that he has been entirely unable to identify his 
plants as is shown by Horm, who has given a long list of corrections 
(Contr. Fl. Greenl.). Mr. Hotm has, however, only had opportunities of 
controlling the determination of some of the plants, represented in the 
National Herbarium of Washington; and several more of Mernan’s 
statements seem to be in a great need of corroboration or correction. 
Another list of plants collected in the Peary auxiliary expedition 
of 1894 by Dr. WerHerILL is made up at Harvard University. The 
names of those who are answerable for the determinations, seem to imply 
that they are reliable, in general at least; and, as the collections seem 
to have been made with care and without any intermixture of plants 
from different localities, this list is of great value and interest, the more 
so as it contains rather a large number of additions to the flora of our 
area. The flora of Cape York especially is enriched with several in- 
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