I therefore began the return journey about one o'clock this morning,
after taking the compass bearings of the principal points within sight
on Wrangell Land, and making a hasty collection of the flowering
plants on my way. I found one species of poppy, quite showy, and
making considerable masses of color on the sloping uplands, three or
four species of saxifrage, one silene, a draba, dwarf willow,
stellaria, two golden compositæ, two sedges, one grass, and a
veronica, together with a considerable number of mosses and lichens,
some of them quite showy and so abundant as to form the bulk of the
color over the gray granite.