Collection of Arctic Plants. 373 
Labrador and the north-west coast of America (Pursh); shores 
of the Arctic Sea. Found previously on the east coast of Green- 
land by Scoresby. Lyon Inlet, &c. (Captain Parry). 
COM POSIT Æ. 
14. LEONTODON. 
31. L. palustre. 
æ. floribus luteis. 
B. floribus purpurascentibus. 
Common as this plant appears to be in the arctic regions, it 
is by no means peculiar to them, but is extended over various 
parts of Europe; as Carniola, Caucasus, Hungary, France, 
Bohemia, Germany and Great Britain. In the wooded country : 
of North America, lat. 54° N. to the shores of the Icy Sea. 
Probably, too, it is the species mentioned by Mr. Brown, 
but not described, as differing from L. Taraxacum, and in- 
habiting wet shady woods. Baffin’s Bay? Melville Island , 
Duckett Cove, Captain Parry. 
The variety 8. above mentioned has its flowers strikingly 
tinged with purple ; and the lesser scales of its involucre more 
reflexed than in g. 
14. ARNICA. 
32. A. angustifolia. Vahl. in Fl. Dan. v. ix. t. 1524. 
A. montana B. Linn., Wahl., Br. 
A northern plant; native of Sweden, Lapland and Green- 
land, in which latter country it was first found by Giesecké 
near the colonies of Osnenak and Godhaon. 
Mr. Brown does not consider this as specifically distinct 
from A. montana «., Linn. ; a plant which is found in the south 
as well as in the north of Europe and America, and of which 
3c2 Mr. 
