APPENDIX C. 
BOTANY. 
List of Plants Obtained on the Peary 
Auxiliary Expedition of 1894. 
Collected by 
Dr. H. Emerson Wetherill. 
Determined at the 
Herbarium of Harvard University. 
NOTE -Determinations of the species of THALLOPHYTA and BRYOPHYTA by Dr. W. 
G. Farlow ; of the CARYOPHYLLACEii: and the genus COCHLEARIA by Dr. B. L. Robin- 
son. Determinations of the remainder of the collection by Mr. M. L. Fernald, with the 
exception of the genus SALIX, which was referred to MR. M. S. Bebb, of Rockford. 111. 
Ranunculus pygmgeus, Wahl. Cape Faraday, Ellesmere Land (No. 152). 
Ranunculus nivalis, L. On cliffs, northwest side of Disco Island 
(No. 78) ; north side of Jones Sound (No. 162) ; Northumberland Island 
(No. 187). 
Papaver nudicaule, L., var. aroticum, Elkan. Abundant, Godthaab 
(No. 15) ; Cape York (No. 73) ; on cliffs, northwest side of Disco Is- 
land (No. 84) ; near Cape Acland, Inglefield Gulf (No. 130) ; Fan 
Glacier, Inglefield Gulf (No. 145) ; Cape Faraday (No. 156) ; north side 
of Jones Sound (No. 163), A white-flowered form comes from Bow- 
doin Bay, Inglefield Gulf (No. 44), and from the Glacier Valley north 
of the promontory to the west of Robertson’s Bay (No. 108). It is said 
that the pistils are eaten, probably for the opium which they may con- 
tain. 
Leequerella arotica, Watson. Fan Glacier, Inglefield Gulf (No. 196). 
The species of the arctic genus Oochlearia are in a state of considerable 
confusion, which renders the exact identification of specimens at present 
almost impossible. The difficulties presented arise on the one hand 
from the inherent variability of the species and the obscurity of their 
characteristics, especially as shown in dried specimens ; on the other, in 
the uncertainty which prevails still among European botanists as to the 
