C.U’T. MARKHAM AT FORT CHURCHILL, ETC. 
3G1 
West Digqes Island has 
IjRAYA 
2 Cerastia 
Stellaria 
Honckenya 
Astragalus 
OXYTROPIS 
Dryas 
I’OTENTILLA 
EpiLomuM 
5 8axifrag.k 
Taraxacum 
IMatriuaria 
Campanula 
Pyrola 
Cassiopk 
Mertensia 
2 1’ediculares 
•Salix 
2 Luzul.k 
Kriophorum 
Carex 
Alopecurus 
I’OA 
IIieroctiloe 
Tloebebg Beach has 
Bray A (identical) 
2 Cerastia (1 identical) 
Lychnis 
Stellaria (identical) 
Arenaria 
Dryas (identical) 
Potentilla 
Kpilohium (identical) 
5 Saxifrag.e (3 identical) 
Taraxacum 
Polygonum 
OXYRIA 
Salix (probably identical) 
J uncus 
Eriophorum 
2 Carices (1 probably identical) 
Alopecurus (identical) 
PoA 
Festuca 
There are two European iloi-as of just about the same latitude 
which wo may compare with advantage with that of West Digges 
Island; one that of the Fieroe Islands, Avhich lie between 61 '20 
and 62 ’25 H., and the other that of the Sogne Fiord in Xorway, 
in lat. 61 ; these throe localities will all have about the same 
length of day, viz., twenty hours on tlie longest day in summer, 
and four hours on the shortest ilay in winter ; but whilst the first 
lies in the icy grasp of the .;\rctic currents, the other two are 
favoured by the warmth of the Gulf Stream, and the result is that 
Digges Island, or at all events the coast near it, has sometimes so low 
