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gravel plains, so low and flat, that he could sometimes drive from the 
sea-ice inland, without noticing it until the sledge scraped in the sand. 
As far as he could see, there was very little vegetation, and no game 
was observed. Still I think that if the land were explored during sum- 
mer time, a number of plants might be found. Captain Isacusen only 
brought home a single collection (2743), made May 17, 1901, in the north- 
western extremity of Ellef Ringnes Land, somewhere about lat. 79° 20’, 
and long. 106°. It contained the following flowering plants: — Poten- 
tilla emarginata, Saxifraga oppositifolia, Papaver radicatum, Draba 
alpina, Cerastiwm alpinum, Poa glauca. As all of these are ubiquit- 
ous plants, there is no special interest attached to this small list. It is 
to be regretted, that a dense cowering of snow almost over the whole 
land prevented Captain Isacusen from seeing more of the vegetation, 
and from bringing back a larger collection. 
With this paper IJ finish my contributions to the knowledge of the 
flora of the Arctic American Archipelago, as far as the higher plants 
are concerned. I am fully aware that these notes are of far less value 
than is the treatment of the Ellesmereland flora; and I much regret that 
[ got no opportunity of visiting the lands to the west myself, as Hei- 
berg Land at least would well have deserved a closer botanical survey. 
But such long journeys can hardly be made in summer, when the road— 
the sea-ice—-may break up at any moment. I must therefore, neces- 
sarily leave further exploration to future expeditions. For my own part, 
I have still much material left for further work, and I hope that I shall 
soon be able to finish a paper about the vegetation of Ellesmereland, 
so as to get time to pass on to the examination of the collections of 
algae. 
The Index in the following pages I have put together as I am fully 
aware that treatises, such as my Ellesmereland and N. W. Greenland 
floras are not easily used without. Certain circumstances made it im- 
possible for me, at the time when the former was published, to compile 
an Index to it. As, however, the three Papers about the floras of higher 
plants in the regions visited by the expedition will always have to be 
used together, I think that an Index common to all three, may answer 
the need equally well. 
Lund, Sweden, February 1909. 
