370 Dr. Hooker's Account of a 
fin’s Bay and in Melville Island this species is tolerably abun- 
dant; and so familiar was its appearance to the sailors of those 
expeditions, that they gave it the very appropriate name of 
Spider Plant. 
Neither did Dr. Richardson, nor Captain Parry in his 
second voyage, meet with this species. In Greenland it 
seems to have been found plentifully by Captain Sabine, 
although no voyagers had previously brought it from that 
country. 
Mr. Don is surely mistaken in referring to this plant the 
S. aspera of Bieberstein’s Flora Taur. Caucas. v. i. p. 314. 
The S. flagellaris, according to Mr. Brown, is described by 
Bieberstein in the third volume of that work, which I do not 
myself at present possess. 
23. S. rivularis. 
Inhabits the alps, principally of the north of Europe. Scot- 
land is perhaps its most southern latitude, and there itis very 
rare. Found in Siberia, Lapland and Norway. In Labra- 
dor (Pursh); Igloolik and adjacent islands (Captain Parry) ; 
also in Melville Island and Baftin’s Bay, if Mr. Brown's S. hy- 
perborea be the same plant, or a variety of it. 
24. S. cespitosa. 
Var. surculis nullis, foliis plerumque trifidis glanduloso-cili- 
atis, caule uni-trifloro, calyce nigro-pubescente glandu- 
loso. 
S. uniflora. Br. in Parry's 1st Voy. App. p. cclxxiv. 
This is exactly the same variety as I have described in the 
Botanical Appendix to Parry's second Voyage, as found at 
Igloolik. I know of no figure which accords so well with this as 
the Norwegian S.cespitosa (Gunner's Flora Norveg. t. qi fi%.). 
Whether 
