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7. Mount Belcher. 
I use this name for the mountain opposite Devil’s Isle, were a cairn 
was found with a record from the English Franxiw Search expedition 
under BELCHER, as a sign how far east his parties had proceeded. We 
visited the place, July 25, 1902, in our boat expedition, and I went over 
the low land below the mountain and along a small river some way 
inland. It was very poor ground, clay and gravel plains with scanty 
vegetation. The following plants were noted:— Dryas integrifolia, 
Saxifraga oppositifolia, S. flagellaris, S. cernua, S. groenlandica, 
Draba alpina, D. subcapitata, Papaver radicatum, Cerastium alp- 
inum, Stellaria longipes, Alsine verna, A. Rossii, Salix arctica, 
Juncus biglumis, Glyceria distans, Catabrosa algida, Alopecurus 
alpinus. 
With this I have to finish my notes about the flora of Nort Devon. 
Even were some one or other of the species found in the south-western 
parts by the earlier visitors to be added, the whole list would not amount 
to more than about 30 plants. This, of course, cannot represent the real 
bulk of the flora, but must only be regarded as the result of some short 
trips, made chiefly in places which are not apt to give rise to a thriving 
vegetation. Further west towards Arthur Fjord there are, as Captain 
Baumann told me when returning from a trip in August 1900, wide 
stretches of bogs and grass-grown plains; and, in all probability, the east- 
ern parts of the island will, some time, turn out to be still richer, as 
they are built up of primary rocks, and will doubtless present a greater 
likeness to South-Eastern Ellesmereland with its richer flora. It would 
be of great interest to get some knowledge of this region, as it forms 
the natural way of migration from Baffin’s Land northward over primary 
rock uninterrupted by less favorable soil. From this point of view, it is 
also very much to be regretted that the leader of the expedition did not 
allow any time for an exploration of Coburg Island, which in other re- 
spects also would have been of considerable interest. It is to be hoped 
that these fairly accessible regions will be examined in a not too distant 
future. 
