Some Plant Records from Southeast Greenland.

Resumé

This paper is based on botanical collections from the Kûngmiut, Kangertítivatsiaq¹ and Tugtilik areas of southeast Greenland (Fig. 1) made on expeditions in 1966 and 1967. The first was that of the Swiss Alpine Club in 1966 led by Hr. S. ANGERER. He, and other members of the expedition, made numerous nunatak collections which will be discussed in a later paper dealing with the nunatak flora of the area between the heads of the fjords and the inland ice. In addition he collected from a lower altitude at the head of Kangertítivatsiaq. Their collections, which one of us ( G.H.²) has seen, are in the Botanical Museum of Copenhagen University. In 1967, unaware of the botanical activities of the Swiss expedition, Mr. R. G. SWAINSON also collected from Kangertítivatsiaq and inland nunataks while participating in a climbing expedition organised by Imperial College, London. The same summer, one of us (J.E .E.³) visited the region on an expedition from Newcastle-upon-Tyne University. Botanical collections were made in two main areas: in the middle part of Angmagssalik Fjord around Kûngmiut, and near the outer coast at Tugtilik.

1 Former spelling : Kangerdlugssuatsiaq.

2 Department of Biological Sciences, University of Lancaster.

3 Royal Horticultural Society's Garden, Wisley, Surrey.