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MR. II. D. GELDART ON PLANTS COLLECTED BY 
X. 
XOTES OX PLANTS COLLECTED BY 
CAPTAIN MAIIKHAM, B.N., AT FOPtT CHUECHILL, 
HUDSON’S BAY, AND WEST DIGGES ISLAND, 
HUDSON’S STEAITS, IN JULY AND AUGUST, 188G. 
By Herbert D. Geldart. 
Read 2 ^th January, 1887 . 
The two small herbaria collected by Captain Markham, E.N., 
which Colonel Eeilden has kindly allowed me to describe, come, 
one from West Digges Island in Hudson’s Straits, lat. 62-34, N., 
long. 78 W., collected on 21st July; and the other from Fort 
Churchill, on the shores of Hudson’s Bay, collected on 1st August, 
1886. As the latter, merely a slice from the flora of the Mainland 
of Eastern North America, a small fraction of a very large flora, is 
for that reason the least interesting, we will take it first. 
This collection contains about thirty-eight species, five of which 
are quite too imperfectly represented for determination. Some of 
these species are very interesting ; among them are Hedysarum 
macltenzii, a magnificent purple vetch ; Drijas drummondi, with its 
shock-head of feathery achenes ; Saxifraya hirculus, with golden 
flowers as large as a shilling, on stems six inches high ; Saxifraya 
tricuspidata, four or five inches high. Eynlohium luti folium has 
splendid mauve-coloured flowers ; Cineraria conyesta is a dwarf 
compressed form of our Norfolk rarity Cineraria palustris. The 
lovely little Primula {M issiassinica) stricta is a condensed epitome 
of the British Primula farinosa. Pyrola rotundifolia has dense 
compact heads of flowers three or four inches in height ; there is 
also one fern not easily to be distinguished from the British 
Laetrea spinulosa. I specify these species particularly, for to 
