Gentiana glanca, Pallas. Elymus arenarius, L. Poa trivialis, L. Carex vesicaria, L. var. alpigma, Fries. Aspidium spinulosum, Sw. _KOTZEBUE SOUND._ The flora of the region about the head of Kotzebue Sound is hardly less luxuriant and rich in species than that of other points visited by the Corwin lying several degrees farther south. Fine nutritious grasses suitable for the fattening of cattle and from 2 to 6 feet high are not of rare occurrence on meadows of considerable extent and along streambanks wherever the stagnant waters of the tundra have been drained off, while in similar localities the most showy of the Arctic plants bloom in all their freshness and beauty, manifesting no sign of frost, or unfavorable conditions of any kind whatever. A striking result of the airing and draining of the boggy tundra soil is shown on the ice-bluffs around Escholtze Bay, where it has been undermined by the melting of the ice on which it rests. In falling down the face of the ice-wall it is well shaken and rolled before it again comes to rest on terraced or gently sloping portions of the wall. The original vegetation of the tundra is thus destroyed, and tall grasses spring up on the fresh mellow ground as it accumulates from time to time, growing lush and rank, though in many places that we noted these new soil-beds are not more than a foot in depth, and lie on the solid ice. At the time of our last visit to this interesting region, about the middle of September, the weather was still fine, suggesting the Indian Summer of the Western States. The tundra glowed in the mellow sunshine with the colors of the ripe foliage of vaccinium, empetrum, arctostaphylos, and dwarf birch; red, purple, and yellow, in pure bright tones, while the berries, hardly less beautiful, were scattered everywhere as if they had been sown broadcast with a lavish hand, the whole blending harmoniously with the neutral tints of the furred bed of lichens and mosses on which the bright leaves and berries were painted. On several points about the sound the white spruce occurs in small compact groves within a few miles of the shore; and pyrola, which belongs to wooded regions, is abundant where no trees are now in sight, tending to show that areas of considerable extent, now treeless, were once forested. The plants collected are: Pyrola rotundifolia, L. var. pumila, Hook. Arctostaphylos alpina, Spring. Cassiope tetragone, Desr. Ledum palustre. Vaccinium Vitis Idæa, L. Uliginosum, L. var. mucronata, Hender. Empetrum nigrum. Potentilla, anserina, L. var. biflora, Willd. fruticosa. Stellaria longipes, Goldie. Cerastium alpinum, L. var. Behringianum. Regel. Mertensia maritima, Derr. Papaver nudicale, L. Saxifraga tricuspidata, Retg. Trientalis europæa, L. var. arctica, Ledeb. Lupinus arcticus, Watson. Hedysarum boreale, Nutt. Galium boreale, L.