Affinity between the flora of the Nordost Bugt 
and that of Scoresby Sound on the 
East Coast of Greenland. 
In his well known and often cited paper N. Hartz (5) makes a 
comparison of the flora of Scoresby Sound with that between the 69 
and 71th parallel on the west coast. 
His list includes 248 species and 6 varieties of which 243 are said 
to occur in West Greenland while 143 species only were collected in 
Scoresby Sound. 
In his list of West Greenland plants Hartz followed the “Con- 
spectus Fl. Grl.” and thus included several doubtful records, which 
more recent investigators have excluded from the flora of that district 
е. g.: Equisetum silvaticum, Salix Myrsinites, Alsine groenlandica, Saxt- 
fraga flagellaris, Andromeda polifolia, Pedicularis euphrasioides. Several 
species of such difficult genera as Carex, Draba and others have recently 
been referred to or united with other species, Hartz also includes a 
few species — Stellaria media and Polygonum aviculare —, which at 
least in this region must be considered as non-indigenous (Ruderals), 
never found far from the settlements. 
The actual number of true species and of varieties having a definite 
geographical distribution in HArrz’s list should therefore be reduced to 
abt. 220 from the west coast. 
From W. Greenland 69°—71° we now recognize abt. 252 indigenous 
species and from the Scoresby Sound region — including Liverpool 
Coast — but not the inlets north of Jameson Land — 176 species. 
Nordost Bugt — Scoresby Sound. 
The comparison made by Hartz is, however, at the best rather 
misleading, because of Disko is included in the W. Greenland area. As 
is well known S. Disko abounds in warm springs and around these 
springs the ground is never frozen and, even during the coldest month, 
it may have a surface temperature from 0° to 17° С. 
The peculiar flora of characteristic places in which Archangelica, 
Alchimilla, Orchids and Epilobiums play a conspicuous part occurs on 
