366 Dr. Hooxer’s Account of a 
Most of the specimens are deeply tinged with purple, espe- 
cially on the calyx and stem; and the latter part especially is 
thickly covered with a dense pubescence, the hairs jointed, 
crisped, and frequently terminated with a gland. The more 
common state of the plant is slightly pubescent, having the 
leaves almost wholly glabrous. The capsule is rather longer 
than the calyx, and opens with five obtuse teeth. 
Native of Lapland, Norway and Siberia, beyond the Aldan 
river, and near the rivers Biela and Jana; it grows also in 
Arctic America (Richardson) ; on Melville Island and Spitz- 
bergen (Captain Sabine). I am not aware that it has been 
found before in Greenland; though, if we may judge from 
the number of specimens brought thence, it appears to be 
‘not uncommon there. Many of them are from Pendulum 
Island. 
12. L. dioica. 
Var. nana, caule subnullo, foliis lanceolatis margine tomen- 
toso-ciliatis. 
A most beautiful variety, with the flowers nearly as large as 
in the common appearance of the species, nestling among the 
radical leaves, which are from an inch and a half to two inches 
long, scarcely pubescent on the disc, but ciliated with soft 
hairs at the margin. 
This variety does not appear to be noticed by any author 
that I am acquainted with. It is the purple-flowered state 
of the plant; the more common appearance of which is plen- 
tiful throughout Europe in moist and shady places. It is 
found also on the west coast of Greenland. In Lapland, 
in Carpathia, and in Scotland, it ascends to a considerable 
height up the mountains ; and in the latter country, near the 
summit of Ben Lawers, I have met with a dwarf. variety, 
somewhat 
