4s22 THE ARCTIC FLORA. 



cupy the same situations there, as the common 

 heath does in Scotland. They occur from a 

 little ahove the sea-mark, to an elevation of about 

 800 feet, when they become very much stunted, 

 and rarely produce flowers. Above this point we 

 found a profusion of Lichens, chiefly Cetraria ni- 

 valis, and various species of Gyrophora incrusting 

 the rocks. The only phaenogamous plant observed 

 here, was Saxifraga tricuspidata, its succulent ha- 

 bit adapting it to situations where scarcely any 

 other plant will grow. 



" On one of the Duck Islands *, which is perfect- 

 ly flat, and situated in lat. 74)°, I only noticed the 

 following plants : Potentilla frigida ? Andromeda 

 tetragona, Cerastium latifolium, Silene acaulis, 

 Stellaria humifusa, Papaver nudicaule, Salix ? 

 S. herbacea, a Festuca, probably vivipara, and a 

 Carex, probably rigida." 



An arranged catalogue of the plants recently 

 brought by Captain Scoresby from Spitzbergen, and 

 by Mr Jameson from Greenland, will not, it is 

 hoped, be uninteresting to those who are curious 

 respecting the economy of Nature in so dreary and 

 inhospitable a country, where the whole process of 

 vegetation is often completed within the short space 

 of a month or six weeks. 



* They are three in number. 



