When an unusually warm summer passes over the Pribylov group, followed by an open fall and a mild winter, the elymus ripens its seed, and stands like fields of uncut grain in many places along the north shore of St. Paul and around the village, the snow not falling enough to entirely obliterate it; but it is seldom allowed to flourish to that extent. By the end of August and the first week of September of normal seasons, the small edible berries of _Empetrum nigrum_ and _Rubus chamæmorus_ are ripe. They are found in considerable quantities, especially at “Zapadnie,” on both islands, and, as everywhere else throughout circumpolar latitudes, the former is small, watery, and dark, about the size of an English or black currant; the other resembles an unripe and partially decayed raspberry. They are, however, keenly relished by the natives, and even by American residents, being the only fruit growing upon the islands. Perhaps no one plant that flowers on the Seal Islands is more conspicuous and abundant than is the _Saxifraga oppositofolia_; it grows over all localities, rank and tall in rich locations, to stems scarcely one inch high on the thin, poor soil of hill summits and sides, densely cespitose, with leaves all imbricated in four rows; and flowers almost sessile. I think that at least ten well-defined species of the order _Saxifragaceæ_ exist on the Pribylov group. The _Ranunculaceæ_ are not so numerous; but, still, a buttercup growing in every low slope where you may chance to wander is always a pleasant reminder of pastures at home; and, also, a suggestion of the farm is constantly made by the luxuriant inflorescence of the wild mustard (_Cruciferæ_). The chickweeds (_Caryophyllaceæ_) are well represented, and also the familiar yellow dandelion, Taraxacum palustre. Many lichens (_Lichenes_) and soft mosses (_Musci_) are in their greatest exuberance, variety, and beauty here; and myriads of golden poppies (_Papaveraceæ_) are nodding their graceful heads in the sweeping of the winds—the first flowers to bloom, and the last to fade. The chief economic value rendered by the botany of the Pribylov Islands to the natives is an abundance of the basket-making rushes (_Juncaceæ_), which the old “barbies” gather in the margins of many of the lakes and pools.