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JIR. II. D. GELUART ON PLANTS COLLECTED BY 
wliicli could contribute by its fruit to the suiiport of mammal 
or bird. The Straits are usually blocked by ice for nine months 
out of the twelve ; there is a cold polar current flowing southwards 
through Fox Channel, and the draught out of Hudson’s Cay is 
cold also, for tlie ice in the Cay melts there every year and 
does not drift out ; and past tlie eastern end of the Straits sweeps 
down the Great Polar current from Davis Straits. The result 
of all this is that the mean temperature of the year is under 15°, 
the mean of January is not above — 15°, and that of July is only 
about 45°. 
The number of species collected by Captain iMarkham on this 
island is about forty, there being four or five flowerless and seedless 
scraps which are not sufficient for identification. 
The following is a complete list : — 
Eanunculus affinis, Cr. 
EaNUNCULUS NIV.VLIS, L. 
Papaver nudicaule, L. 
Craya alpina, Sternb. 
Draba androsacea, Wahl. 
Draba alpina, L. 
Eutrema edwardsii, Cr. 
(Crucifer, Scrap). 
Cerastium articum, Lange. 
Cerastium alpinum, L. 
IIONCKENEYA PEPLOIUES, Elir. 
Stellaria longipes, Goldie. 
Astragalus alpinus, L. 
OxYTROPis uralensis, pumila, Ledeb. 
Dryas integrifolia, Cham, and Schlect. 
Potentilla vauliana, Lam. 
Epilobium latifolium, L. 
Campanula uniflora, L. 
SaXIFRAGA IIIRCULUS, ALPINA, Eugl. 
Saxifraga cernua, L. 
Saxifraga oppositifolia, L. 
Saxifraga tricuspidata, Ectz. 
Saxifraga cojspitosa, L. 
Taraxacum officinale, D. C. 
