The banks of the river at the mouth of which we landed presented a striking contrast as to vegetation 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 cæspitosa, L. var. Arctica. Alopecurus alpinus, Smith.