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Occurrence. S. Wolstenholme Sound: Saundcrs Island (Agpa) and 

 Umanak (BALLE); Gape Ac-land and Fan Glacier in Inglefield Gulf (WETH- 

 ERILL); Foulke Fjord (HART), in gravelly places near Etah (24:2). 



Empetraceae- 

 Empetrum nigrum, L. 



E. nigrum, SIMMONS, Fl. Ellesm. [E. nigrum, DURAND, PI. Kan.; 

 HART, Bot. Br. Pol. Exp.; WETHERILL, List 1894]. 



As I have previously (I. c., p. 42) gone into details abouth the North- 

 West Greenland Empetrum-iorm, it is not necessary to reiterate that 

 discussion. My specimens from Foulke Fjord decidedly belong to the 

 variety purpureum, (RAFIN.) DC., as doubtless also do those of HAYES, 

 which DURAND, Enum. pi. Smith S., has called E. rubrum. The plant 

 of HAYES'S collection is reported by DURAND, 1. c.. p. 95, from the prob- 

 lematical "Tessiussak". The fact that the red-fruited form is nowhere 

 found in Danish Greenland, seems to tell against the supposition of 

 MALMGREN, Grinnell Fl.. which as I have discussed (p. 14), is for the rest 

 supported by several circumstances. The Empetrum specimens may. 

 in fact, belong to another collection. In Foulke Fjord the plant grew 

 under similar conditions as in Ellesmereland. Ripe fruit was found 

 August 11, 1899. 



Occurrence. S. Cape York (WETHERILL); "Smith Sound" (KANE); 

 Foulke Fjord (HART), near Etah (1500). 



Rosaceae. 

 Dryas integrifolia, VAHL. 



D. integrifolia, SIMMONS, Fl. Ellesm. [D. integrifolia, DURAND, PI. 

 Kan. et Enum. pi. Smith S. ; NATHORST, N. W. Gronl.; OSTENFELD, Fl. 

 pi. Gape York; D. octopetala (et var. integrifolia), DURAND, 1. c.; HART, 

 Bot. Br. Pol. Exp.; MEEHAN, Contr. Greenl. ; WETHERILL, List 1894; 

 BESSELS, Exp. Pol. Amer. et Amer. Nordpol Exp.; NATHORST, N. W. 

 Gronl.]. 



As I have previously stated (1. c., p. 4345) all reports about Dryas 

 forms from the area here in question, are as far as they have been 

 controlled by examination of specimens to be referred to this species. 

 No D. octopetala is found there as far as I know, and I feel quite 

 justified in transferring to this place the statements about D. octopetala 

 made by DURAND in his treatments of the collections of KANE and of 

 HAYES. 



