378 Dr. HooxERn's Account of a 
in America, Baffin’s Bay (it does not appear in the Melville 
Island Flora); Igloolik, &c. 
PLUMBAGINEZÆ. 
23. STATICE. 
41. S. Armeria. : 
This is perhaps the most extensively diffused plant of any in 
the collection. It grows both upon the sea-beach and on most 
of the high mountains which intervene between the shores of 
the Mediterranean and the utmost limit of arctic vegetation. 
Nor is it wholly confined to alpine spots and the vicinity of 
the sea; I have gathered a variety of it in grassy pastures in 
the environs of Paris: but though abundant in that particular 
habitat, Y believe its occurrence in such situations to be very 
rare. In America we know, upon the authority of Pursh, that 
it extends from Pennsylvania to Virginia, keeping along the 
shores ; and Dr. Richardson found it on the sea-coast of Arc- 
tic America. 
POLYGON E Æ. 
24. OXYRIA. 
42. O. reniformis. 
A well-known inhabitant of all the arctic regions, where it 
grows plentifully upon a level with the sea. In the south of 
Europe it affects only the most alpine situations, as the Pyre- 
nees, in Auvergne, Switzerland, &c. 
In America, besides being a native of Labrador and the 
most northern parts of that continent with the adjacent islands, 
we are lately informed by Dr. Torry in his ** Description of 
some new or rare Plants from the Rocky Mountains," that it 
grows upon James's Peak, one of the highest of that range, at 
an 
