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printed in smaller type, as is also the case with species only recorded from regions 
uot strictly belonging to the Archipelago. In the locahty -lists the records from such 
districts are put in square brackets. The name of the collector or observer is always 
mentioned, as far as I have been able to make it out, but in several cases the name 
of the leader of au expedition appears in stead of that of the actiial collector in 
the label. To the treatment of the distribution of each species is added a conden- 
sed account of its geographical area which I have deemed expedient to have at 
hand. 
The plants coUected during the second expedition of John Ross which have 
never been specially treated before I have entered for Boothia Felix, notwithstan- 
ding the possibility, that some of them may be from North Somerset. In several 
instances I have made use of dates in the labels and other circumstances, which 
could not be entered upon in each separate case, to make out the locality whence 
a certain specimen must have come. The arctic plants in the possession of the 
Linnean Society have originally been in the hands of private coUectors and seem 
never to have been used for ariy publication before. The species, indeed, will be 
found in the botanical appendices of the narratives of the expeditions that have brought 
them home, but still they may add some locality or other to those already published. 
One of them is inscribed « Plants found by Mr. Hooper (H. M. S. Fm-y, 1823)». 
Some of the species are from localities not mentioned in the Botan. App. of Hookee 
to Parry's Journ II, there are, moreover, on the papers where the plants are pasted 
up, some notes about their occurrence and distribution in the regions visited by 
the expedition. These notes are reproduced under the species in question in the 
following account. Another small collection is inscribed «Paert's Polar Botany. 
Hortus siccus,» «Presented by the Bishop of Norwich.» The plants are collected 
in Parry's third voyage, probably by himself; at least I have quoted him as col- 
lector in the following. On the cover of a third collection the following inscription 
is to be found: »A small collection of Plants from the NE coast of America and 
the neighbouring Islands formed during the summera of 1822 and 1823», and added 
iii pencil «by Lieut. Ross». For these plants, collected by James C. Ross in the 
second expedition of Parry, no localities are given, and I have only in a few in- 
stances thought advisable to refer to them. Finally there is a fourth collection with 
the indication »From Melville Island 1820, given by Mr. Menzies, 1822.» The 
specimens are, of course, collected during Parry's first voyage by some of his offi- 
cers; no special localities are given, but most probably they come from Winter 
Harhour. A few species are represeuted from Melville Island only in this collection 
but generally they are entered by Rob. Brown in Chlor. Mel v., or at least there 
is nothing suspicious about them. This, however, is uot quite the case with some 
other specimens, labelled »Melville Island, Trevelyan« and now scattered in diffe- 
rent ^herbaria, among others in Copenhagen. I am rather inclined to beheve that 
some of them come from quite another region than Melville Island, and that they 
may have become inixed up with some other collections in the herbarium of 
