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APPENDIX NO. XVIII. 
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ENUMERATION OF PLANTS 
Collected by Dr. E. K. Kane , U.S.N ., in Ms first and second 
expeditions to the Polar Regions , with descriptions and remarks. 
BY ELIAS DURAND. 
I have brought together in the following enumeration all the plants 
collected by Dr. Kane at the stations of his two voyages, the whole 
belonging to the western coast of Greenland, and nearly to the same 
geographical zone. 
These stations were, for the first voyage, (1850 and 1851,) Sukker- 
toppen, Ilolsteinburg, Egedesminde, Disco, Upernavik, and Wosten- 
holm, between the 64th and 76th north parallels; and for the second, 
Eiske Fiord, Sukkertoppen, N. Proven, Upernavik and the different 
stations of Smith’s Sound as far as 81° N. latitude. 
The first collection was in pretty good order, but the second had suf¬ 
fered much from the peculiar hardships attending the last period of this 
eventful expedition, in which Dr. Kane’s fortitude and devotion to 
science were so signally manifested. Surrounded with difficulties of 
every sort, aud threatened by the impending danger of starvation and 
death, amid the drifts, disruptions and other impediments of a 
hyperborean climate, he did not hesitate sacrificing the useful articles 
of comfort and self-preservation, to make room in his luggage-boxes for 
as many of his scientific collections as he could pack in them. 
Thus was the best portion of his botanical specimens preserved to 
science, after suffering much, as it may be imagined, from the incle¬ 
mency of the weather and the hardships of a long and perilous voyage 
back to the United States. Rut for the zeal and self-denial of his 
comrades, and especially of his surgeon, Dr. 1.1. Hayes, his co-laborer 
in the scientific field, Dr. Kane is pleased to-acknowledge that he could 
never have undertaken their transportation. 
Under these circumstances I have experienced great difficulty in 
determining several specimens,—difficulty arising not only from their 
damaged state, but also from their occasional incompleteness, some 
being just blooming, others in a fruiting condition, others again wanting 
some of the essential characters. To these disadvantages I must add 
the want, in several instances, of books of reference, and of authentic 
specimens for comparison. 
When I attempted the task of determining these collections, I relied 
much, I confess, on the assistance of a learned and more experienced 
