THE FLORA OF RUSSIAN LAPLAND. 
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A CONTRIBUTION TO T1IE FLOE A OF 
RUSSIAN LAPLAND. 
By Colonel II. W. Feilden and Mil I Ikuijf.rt D. Geldart. 
Read 24th February, 1S06. 
The small collection of plants from the Kola peninsula, exhibited 
this evening, was made last June, by Feilden, in the vicinity of the 
Ukanskoe river, which empties into the Bay of Sviatonoskaia on 
the west side of Sviatoi Nos, that prominent headland of Russian 
Lapland which marks the entrance to the White Sea, when 
approaching it from the westward. 
The beacon on Sviatoi Nos is in Lat. 6S 5 9' 50"X., and 
Long. 39° 47' 40” east of Greenwich. The Ukanskoe river flows 
from a lake of the same name into the south-west angle of 
Sviatonoskaia Bay, between the high, steep, dark bluff Tolstoi, and 
the small islet of Ust Vokanski, where it is about half a mile 
in width. There are five fathoms depth at the entrance, and 
not less than two and a half fathoms are found for tAvo 
miles up the river, which affords safe navigation for vessels 
drawing fifteen feet. At three and a half miles up, the rapids 
commence, and it is no further navigable, even for small 
boats. From the mouth of the river to the rapids, it is 
more correctly speaking a fiord, flanked on either side by the 
granite and gneissoid granite rock formations, which are the 
prevailing ones in this area. The proper right bank of the river is 
the steeper, the granite slope rising to a height of 210 to 300 feet, 
before it attains to the level of the tundra land. This slope is 
