SO H. G. SIMMONS. [SEC. ARCT. EXP. FRAM 



Strllnria longipes, GOLDIE. 



5. /">/<//'/*. SIMMONS, Fl. Ellesm.; OSTENFELD, Plantes N. E. Gronl. 

 [>>'. loiiyi^es, DJCKIE, Not. fl. pi., in INGLEFIEI.D, Summer Search; DURAM>. 

 I'l. Kan. (incl. varr.l: NATHORST. N. W. Gronl.; HART, Bot. Br. Pol. Exp.: 

 WETHEKII.L. I.i-t 1894; OSTENFELD. Fl. pi. Cape York ; <S. stricta, Di i;- 

 s\n. Enum. pi. Smith S.]. 



In Foulkr Fjord, where the plant was very common. I found the 

 var. hiunilis. FEN/L. the same in which it generally appears in Elles- 

 mereland, as well as another, less condensed, and glaucous form, which 

 comes nearest to var. peduncularis, (BUNGS) FENZL (St. pediuicularis, 

 BUN<;E. in LEDEBOUR, Fl. Alt.). The first-mentioned form grew in open 

 -nil. gravelly places, etc., the latter among grass along brooks in the 

 <l.pe above Etah (149IM. 



Occurrence. S. Ivsugigsok (NATHORST); Wolstenholme Sound 

 <]NGLEFIEI.D): Granville Bay (MvLius ERICHSEN); Inglefield Gulf: Burdin 

 Bay (INGLEFIELD). Northumberland Island (WETHERILL, STEIN), Netiulumi, 

 Fan Glacier. (\VETHERILL), Verhoeff Nunatak (MEEHAN, compare above 

 under 5. fnunifusn), Netlik (HAYES); Foulke Fjord (HART), at Reindeer 

 Point and Etah (STEIN, 211. 1499); Bedevilled Reach and Rensselaer 

 Hay 1 1\.\\ i:|. 



Melamlriuni nl'tine. .1. VAHL. 



M. nflhtc, SIMMONS. Fl. Ellesm.; M. involucratnm j (tf/inc, OSTI:N- 

 FFLI. I'lantes N. E. Gronl. \M. f/ine, OSTENFELD, Fl. pi. Cape York: 

 l.ychniN df/ii/is. HART. Bot. Br. Pol. Exp. : Wdhlbi'riji'lla a f finis, NAT- 

 HORST, N. W. Gronl. | 



In Foulke Fjord I found only one single individual of this species, 

 tin- following, which was not found in Ellesmereland, being here the 

 nio^l abundant. KANE did not bring home either of them, only M. 

 a petal inn : but some of his notes about "Lychnis", for instance, at the 

 mouth of Marv Minturn River in Bancroft Bav. and from the shore of 



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Kennedy Channel, belong most probably here. The "Lychnis pauri- 

 //ord" of HAYES' of which I can form no distinct opinion as the speci- 



Indeed Di u\.\n, Kimm. pi. Smith S., records a "Lychnis pauciflora, Kisc.n." fri-in 

 Nt-llili, lint n- li- lia^ also besides L.npetala, IK- does not use the name in the same 

 sense a> FI.SCIIKK himself (L. iniud/torn. T'lscn. in lill. i^ a synonym of L. a/n'- 

 tulii, accc.rdiiij,' to DKCANDOLLE, Prodr. I, p. 386). According to RonnBACii, Syn. 

 Lychn., I he aullinr of L. jiuui-i/lorn is LKDKBOIJR, even though the specimens in 

 the herbarium of KISCIIKK are refrrrrd to under Melandriiun apetalum. LEKK- 

 i!-i H liiinself. in his Fl. HMVS.. has his L. pniiriflitrn as a synonym of the lulli-r 



