Plantae novae vasculares Florae Ellesmerelandicae. 15 
A. vulgaris var. sibirica Rosenvinge, 2 Till; Kruuse, List E. Green, — 
Statice Armeria Hooker, Fl. Bor. Amer., ex p.; Britton € Brown, Ill. FL. 
ex p.; Statice sibirica Ledebour, Fl. Ross. — Fig. Fl. Dan., 2769. 
Northeastern Greenland, West-Greenland, Arctic American Archipelago, 
Arctic America, Northern Siberia, Baikal (alpine?) Finmark, Faeroes, 
Iceland. 
2. Dryas integrifolia Vahl var. canescens Simmons, l. c., p. 46. 
Characterised by a dense tomentose covering also of the upper sur- 
face of the leaves, which even in the old leaves is almost as grayish- 
white in colour, as the nether one. It forms a parallel to the varieties 
argentea Blytt, and hirsuta Hartz, of D. octopetala. 
Ellesmereland: In dry places among the type: Hayes Sound: 
Skräling Island in Alexandra Fjord (1376); western valley in Fram Fjord 
(1884), above the anchcrage in Harbour Fjord (2572). 
3. Potentilla rubricaulis Lehm. var. arctica Simmons, l. e., p. 51. 
Characterised by low growth; mostly 3-digitate leaves, or by very 
small basal leaflets, furnished only with one or a few feeble teeth. 
Ellesmereland is found generally in rookeries and vegetation- 
covered slopes, where it is loosely tufted and thriving. whereas when 
it grows in open gravel- or clay-plains, it becomes stunted and very 
densely tufted, so as to be rather like P. Vahliana in habit. 
4. Saxifraga Hirculus L. var. propinqua (R. Brown) Simmons, l. c. 
p. 65. 
Saxifraga propinqua R. Brown, List of Pl, ex Chlor. Melv. 
It differs from the Iceland—Spitzbergen-Siberian plant as well as 
from the common European form in its manner of growing in great, 
loose tufts, formed of numerous upright rhizome-branches, that end 
either in sterile or floriferous shoots. The leaves are very narrow, or 
even linear, the flowers rather small. Even if the name of Engler must 
be discarded for this variety, there stil exists a name for it, viz. S. 
propinqua R. Brown. This indeed from the first is a nomen nudum, but 
Rob. Brown has afterwards himself given a short description of it in 
Chlor. Melv., p. 15, where he has reduced it to a variety of S. Hirculus. 
Sternberg, 1. c., suppl. II, p. 18, indeed has called the plant of Brown 
S. Hirculus 8. uniflora, which, however. he had no right whatever to do. 
If, therefore, the arctic-american form is to be kept separate as a variety 
which seems rather well founded by the above-mentioned characters that 
distinguish it from the european and asiatic forms, it must be called $. 
Hirculus L. var. propinqua (B. Br.). 
The plant grew in swamps. generaly in deep moss. The flowers 
were seen about the beginning of July. 
5. Saxifraga groenlandica L. var. uniflora (R. Brown) Simmons. l. c.. 
p. 71. 
Saxifraga uniflora R. Brown, l. c.. p. 16. | | 
Humilis, pulvinata; foliis radicalibus aggregatis, trifidis, cuneatis 
breve petiolatis, laciniis obtusis: foliis caulinis linearibus vel inferne 
