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descriptions of thirty five new species and nineteen new varieties. Third, a 
list of all the species that had been found in each number of the exsiccata. 
In No. 533, for instance, he had found twenty-nine, in No. 546, twenty-five 
species and varieties, and in 951 not less than thirty-two species. At the end 
of the report are two plates illustrating the leaves of the following species: 
Gymnostomum laevi Bryhn, Fissidens arcticus Bryhn, Polytrichum 
fragile Bryhn, Orthothecium acuminatum Bryhn, Brachythecium sale- 
brosum var. binervium Bryhn, Hypnum tundrae (Arn.) Joerg, and Hyp- 
71 u 711 hyperboretnn Bryhn. 
The first place that was touched by the expedition was Egedesminde or 
Godhavn, Greenland, at about lat. 69 deg. During the short stay about 
forty species of bryophytes were gathered. Most of these were common and 
well known arctic species. The following were, however, of special interest: 
Lophozia Baueriaiia , new to the western hemisphere; Cynodontium strumi- 
ferum , new to arctic America, and Hypnum pseudorufescens, before known 
only from two or three places in Europe. 
The second place where bryophytes were collected was at Foulkefjord in 
Northwest Greenland, at lat. 78 deg. 20 min. Here were collected for the 
first time the following new species : Lophozia harpanthoides , P lagiochila 
arctica , Fissidens arcticus and Poly trichum fragile. A list of eighty-six 
species collected there is given. 
Next in turn came Ellesmere Land, where the expedition passed the 
first winter. From Framshavn, the place of wintering, as a center several 
excursions were made during the fall of 1898 and the summer of 1899, to the 
coasts of this land and the neighboring islands at lat. 78 deg. 40 min. -79 deg. 
Here were discovered the following new species; Diplophy llum incur vuin , 
Gymnost om unt laeve , Lophozia violascens , Bryum gemmaceum , B. sub- 
foveolatum, B. cyclophylloides , B. pertenellum, Orthothecium acuminatum 
and Hypnum hyperboreum. Of these the first two were rather common and the 
following very scarce. In all two hundred and eleven species were collected. 
From Smith’s Sound the course was directed towards Jones’ Sound, 
where North Lincoln was touched. A stay was made at Framjord, situated 
at lat. 70 deg. 20 min. Eighty-three species were collected, of which none 
were new. The journey was continued in the fall of 1899 along Jones' Sound 
King Oscar’s Land was discovered. The expedition was forced to winter 
here three times. Many excursions were made and each of the many fjords 
was more or less satisfactorily investigated. Not less than two hundred and 
thirty-three species of bryophytes were collected and not less than seven- 
teen new species discovered. These were: Scapania Simmonsii, Funaria 
polaris , and the following species of Bryum: hyperboreum , laxirete . lili- 
putanum , parvum , brachythecium, cancelliforme , corioideum , angustidens , 
semiovatum, Simmonsii , glomeratum , nodosum , den sum, penduliforme , 
and teretinerve. 
From King Oscar’s Land were made botanical excursions to the Islands 
of North Devon and North Kent. On the former, situated at about lat. 76 
deg. and on small neighboring islands, Castle Island and Devil's Island, 
.sixty-four species were collected, of which the very curious Bryum paganum 
