ion to that of any other stream we had
seen in the Arctic regions. The tundra vegetation was not wholly
absent, but the mosses and lichens of which it is elsewhere composed
are about as feebly developed as possible, and instead of forming a
continuous covering they occur in small separate tufts, leaving the
ground between them raw and bare as that of a newly-ploughed field. The
phanerogamous plants, both on the lowest grounds and the slopes and
hilltops as far as seen, were in the same severely repressed condition
and as sparsely planted in tufts an inch or two in diameter, with about
from one to three feet of naked soil between them. Some portions of the
coast, however, farther south presented a greenish hue as seen from the
ship at a distance of eight or ten miles, owing no doubt to vegetation
growing under less unfavorable conditions.

From an area of about half a square mile the following plants were
collected:

Saxifraga flegellaris, Willd.
stellaris, L. var. cornosa, Poir.
sileneflora, Sternb.
hieracifolia, Waldst. & Kit.
rivularis, L. var. hyperborea, Hook.
bronchialis, L.
serpyllifolia, Pursh.

Anemone parviflora, Michx.

Papaver nudicaule, L.

Draba alpina, L.

Cochleria officinalis, L.

Artemisia borealis, Willd.

Nardosmia frigida, Hook.

Saussurea monticola, Richards.

Senecio frigidus, Less.

Potentilla nivea, L.
frigida, Vill.?

Armeria macrocarpa, Pursh.
vulgaris, Willd.

Stellaria longipes, Goldie, var. Edwardsii T. & G.

Cerastium alpinum, L.

Gymnandra Stelleri, Chain & Schlecht.

Salix polaris, Wahl.

Luzulu hyperborea, R. Br.

Poa arctica, R. Br.

Aira caespitosa, L. var. Arctica.

Alopecurus alpinus, Smith.

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