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



al<o in the flowers of another dwarf-form of Lnzula arcuata collected 

 in Torne Lappmark by HAGERSTROM. Var. Kjcllntani thus is shown 

 to be merely a pathological deformation and the name must be with- 

 drawn. Moreover, the plant in ipiestion belongs not to L. spicata but 

 to /, arcHdla. The former species must, consequently, be excluded from 

 tin- flora of the area. 



Occurrence. S. Bnshnan Island (SUTHERLAND); Ivsugigsok (NAT- 

 HORsTl: Wolstenholme Sound (!NGLEFIELD); Inglefield Gulf: BurdinBay: 

 I|N.,I i HI I.D), Northumberland Island (STEIN); Glacier Valley at Robertson 

 Bay, Fan Glacier |\VI:TIII:HII.L): Foulke Fjord (HART), at Etah (STEIN) and 

 other places (237, 1481, 4254); Fog Inlet (KANE). N. Polaris Bay (HART) 



Luzula nivalis, (LAKST.) BEURL. 



L. nivalis, SIMMONS, Fl. Ellesm. ; OSTENFELD, Plantes N. E. Gronl. 



As in Ellesmereland, this species seems to be a rather rare and 

 -poradic one in North-Western Greenland from whence it is only men- 

 tioned by DURAND. I'l. Kan. It may, however, have been found in Foulke 

 Fjord by HART, even though I have seen no specimens to prove it. and 

 NATHORST. a- previously mentioned, has also brought it home. 



Occurrence. S. Ivsugigsok (NATHORST); Foulke Fjord (1514, 1895); 

 Bedevilled Reach (KANE). 



Luzula, spicata, (L.) DC. 



As mentioned above, the plant of NATHORST referred to this spe- 

 cies, really belongs to L. arcuata, but still 1 cannot unreservedly deny 

 the possibility that L. spicata may grow in our area. In the Kew her- 

 barium I >aw a specimen, collected at Whale Sound, Aug.. 25, 1852, 

 which I have noted as collected by TAYLOR 1 and belonging to L. sj>i- 

 cala. It wa> called /,. campestris connesta, but I have noted that the 

 long, pointed sepals and the hairiness at the mouth of the leaf-sheaths, 

 place it under spicafa. Not having the specimen at hand for another 

 rxammation, 1 am now very doubtful about it. It might be the same 

 deformed /,. (ircuala as the plant of NATHORST, the real nature of which 

 I lir.-l found out in I'.IOII. two years after my visit to London ; or it may 

 al>o he supposed, that TAYLOR, whose collections were made in different 

 places among them l>anish Greenland and llaflin Land where L. spi- 



1 know untiling. In. \\i-vi-r. al.mit TAYM.II liaving visited these rrgions, as no pliiuls 

 from lliiM-c arc included in his Fl. p|. I'.aflin I'. 



