48 H. G. SIMMONS. [SEC. ARCT. EXP. FRAM 
The Species of Vascular Plants in the Flora of 
North-Western Greenland. 
In the following treatment of the different species I have followed 
the same plan as in my Fl. Ellesm.; and, as by far the larger part of 
the plants is common to both districts, I have not thought it necessary 
to repeat such items as may easily be found there. Therefore I have 
not here given a complete synonymic for species included in the Ellesmere: 
land flora, but have only referred to the synonymic given in my previous 
work. For species not treated there, I have given a synonymic on the 
same plan as in FI. Ellesm. It is, however, impossible in many cases 
to give an exact synonymic, for I have not seen all the specimens upon 
which the identifications in the different papers concerning North-Western 
Greenland are based, and therefore J have thought it best to insert, as 
a “special synonymic” in [square brackets] the names used in these 
treatises which I have, with more or less certainty, in some cases by 
guess only, referred to the species in question. 
The list of literature at the end of the book, is only intended to be 
an appendix to that of the Fl. Ellesm. where most of the works that 
have reference to the vascular plants of Arctic America and Greenland 
are enumerated. The abbreviations of the titles used in the text are 
also to be found there, as I have not deemed it necessary to repeat the 
whole bibliography and as the two floras will always have to be used 
together. 
The statements about occurrence and distribution are made up in 
the same manner as in my Fi. Ellesm., and when no account of the 
latter is inserted here, it is to be found in that treatise. In the records 
of occurrence I have used a “S” to signify the southern part (76°—79°) 
and a “N” for the upper part of N. W. Greenland (from 80° northwards). 
