1898—1902, No. 16.] FLOW. PLANTS AND FERNS OF N..W.GREENLAND. 21 
ant. A thorough revision—especially of the Kane and Hayes plants— 
would be of the greatest value; not only for an exact knowledge of the 
N. W. Greenland flora, but also for the settling of several questions 
concerning the flora of Danish Greenland, for which a considerable 
number of plants is recorded by Duranp alone, most probably because 
he has arrived at wrong determinations. 
A striking feature in the above table, is the very different number 
of species for the stations explored. The small area of Foulke Fjord has 
yielded 81 plants—a number greater than that from any other single 
locality ; and even the list arrived at in my short stay there, is larger 
than that of the entire area of the widely-branching district of Inglefield 
Gulf, which, running far inland into a country of similar geological 
nature, doubtless affords still better conditions than those of Foulke 
Fjord. During my short stay at the iatter place, I found again all the 
species previously recorded for it with the exception only of 5 (among 
which 2 at least are somewhat doubtful), and I added a considerable 
number, including 9 species new to the whole of N. W. Greenland. 
I think that several more species might still be found, were a trained 
botanist to get an opportunity of surveying more than the small patch 
of ground which I was able to reach to investigate. 
Next to Foulke Fjord stands Ivsugigsok with a list of 58 species. 
A few indeed have been excluded from the list of Natnorst (Dryas 
octopetala, Luzula spicata, Glyceria angustata, Taraxacum officinale) 
but they have been replaced by others through the revision of his mate- 
rial so as to give the original numbers unaltered. It is due principally 
to the keen eye of Narxorst, trained in the excellent school of former 
swedish arctic expeditions, but partly also to WeTHERILL, that the Cape 
York region now shows a list of 75 species. Its relatively close neigh- 
bourhood to Danish Greenland may, to a certain degree, have facilitated 
an immigration and perhaps affords an explanation of this abundance; 
but I think most of those plants will be found further north also, and 
will not be confined to the open coast localities of Cape York. 
That the figures for Wolstenholme Sound, 34, far from represent 
the true number of its flora can hardly be doubted, especially as many 
common species are absent from it. Here much is left for future explo- 
ration. In Inglefield Gulf, one locality only—Northumberland Island— 
has reached as yet a number of 39 species. Of these Srein’s list con- 
tains 38. None of the branch fjords, each equalling Foulke Fjord in 
size and probably surpassing it in conditions of plant-life, has as yet 
yielded as much as 30 species; and the total number of recorded plants 
