I 'ill H.G.SIMMONS. [SEC. ARCT. EXP. FRAM 



Some specimens indeed belong to the var. intermedia, NATH. I have 

 it in my Foulke Fjord collection, OSTENFELD reports it as having been 

 brought home by MYI.II s ERICHSFN. and it has also been seen and 

 ""llected before NATHORST (N. W. Gronl.) distinguished it from the typ- 

 ical form of the species. To this the reports about D. octopetala also 

 may in general be referred. It is. however, only a local form produced 

 by certain conditions. Besides I have also found the var. canesceus, 

 SIMM., in Foulke Fjord (1883). 



D. intcijrifoUa equally as in Ellesmereland seems also to be a 

 very common and widely distributed plant in the adjacent parts of 

 Greenland where it reaches even to the most northern part of the 

 country. Still I think it is best to give a list of the places where it is 

 noted from. 



Occurrence. S. Cape York (HART, WETHERILL); Ivsugigsok (NAT- 

 HORST): Umanak and Agpa (Saunders Island) in Wolstenholme Sound 

 il!.\u.El: Granville Bay (IterdlagssuakHMvLius ERICHSEN); Inglefield Gulf: 

 Northumberland Island (STEIN); Netlik (HAYES), Fan Glacier and Cape 

 Acland (WETHERILL), Verhoef Nunatak (MEEHAN), Robertsons Bay (\VETH- 

 ERILL); Foulke Fjord (HART, STEIN, 199, 1497, 1521, 1883); Bedevilled 

 Reach, Rensselaer Bay and Mary Minturn River (KANE). N. Bessels Bay 

 and Hannah Island (HART); Polaris Bay (HART); Lockwood Island 

 (LOCKWOOD). 



Alchemilla, vulgaris, L. 



Not having seen any specimens I can, of course, form no opinion 

 about the plant, that DURAND, Enum. pi. Smith S., records under this 

 name from Netlik. No Alchemilla is found north of Melville Bay by 

 any other collector, which makes it also doubtful if the plant in question 

 really was found there and not in Danish Greenland. Consequently the 

 safest way is to leave it out of consideration until more reliable inform- 

 ation about it can be produced. 



Potentilla pulchella, R. BR. 



P. pulchella, SIMMONS, Fl. Ellesm. 



As is already in some measure shown in my Fl. Ellesm., there is 

 much difficulty about using the statements of the older authors about 

 the arctic Polenlillae. As for P. puIcJiella, this name is to be found 

 in the lists of different authors, but it is rather diflicult to form any 

 opinion about the plants that they have had in view As none of them 

 ha- hem able to discern P. nthrictiulix. I, EMM., it is always possible or 





