es, being quite tellingly dotted and tufted with
characteristic species. The following list was obtained:

Saxifraga punctata, L.?
serpyllifolia, Pursh.
sileniflora, Sternb.
bronchialis, L.
stellaris, L. var. comosa, Poir.
rivularis, L. var. hyperborea, Hook.
hieracifolia, Waldst & Kit.

Papaver nuedicaule, L.

Draba alpina, L.

Gymnandra Stelleri, Cham. & Schlecht.

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

Senecio frigidus, Less.

Potentilla frigida, Vill.?

Salax polaris, Wahl.

Alopecurus alpinus, Smith.

Luzula hyperborea, R. Br.

_WRANGEL ISLAND._

Our stay on the one point of Wrangel Island that we touched was far too
short to admit of making anything like as full a collection of the
plants of so interesting a region as was desirable. We found the rock
formation where we landed and for some distance along the coast to the
eastward and westward to be a close-grained clay slate, cleaving freely
into thin flakes, with here and there a few compact metamorphic masses
that rise above the general surface. Where it is exposed along the
shore bluffs and kept bare of vegetation and soil by the action of the
ocean, ice, and heavy snow-drifts the rock presents a surface about as
black as coal, without even a moss or lichen to enliven its sombre
gloom. But when this dreary barrier is passed the surface features of
the country in general are found to be finely molded and collocated,
smooth valleys, wide as compared with their depth, trending back from
the shore to a range of mountains that appear blue in the distance, and
round-topped hills, with their side curves finely drawn, touching and
blending in beautiful groups, while scarce a single rock-pile is seen
or sheer-walled bluff to break the general smoothness.

The soil has evidently been derived mostly from the underlying slates,
though a few fragmentary wasting moraines were observed containing
traveled boulders of quartz and granite which doubtless were brought
from the mountains of the interior by glaciers that have recently
vanished--so recently that the outlines and sculptured hollows and
grooves of the mountains have not as yet suffered sufficient post
glacial denudation to mar appreciably their glacial characters.

The banks of the river at the mouth of which we landed presented a
striking contrast as to vegetat