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Cassiope tetragona, (L.) D. DON. 



C. tetragona, SIMMONS, Fl. Ellesm. ; OSTENFELD, Plantes N. E. Gronl. 

 \C. tetragona, HART, Bot. Br. Pol. Exp. ; NATHORST, N. W. Gronl. ; WETH- 

 ERILL, List 1894; OSTENFELD, Fl. pi. Cape York; Andromeda tetragona, 

 DURAND, PI. Kan. et Enum. pi. Smith S.]. 



This plant seems to take as prominent a place in the vegetation on 

 the Greenland side as it does on the western side of Smith Sound. 



Occurrence. S. Bushnan Island (SUTHERLAND); Cape York (HART, 

 WETHERILL); hetvveen there and Cape Dudley Digges (KANE); Ivsugigsok 

 (NATHORST); Umanak and Agpa in Wolstenholme Sound (BALLE); Gran- 

 ville Bay (MvLius ERICHSEN); Inglefield Gulf: Northumberland Island 

 (STEIN), Cape Acland, Bowdoin Bay and Robertson Bay (WETHERJLL); 

 Port Foulke (HAYES); Foulke Fjord (HART), abundant at Reindeer Point 

 and Etah (STEIN, 252) ; Fog Inlet, Bedevilled Reach and Rensselaer Bay 

 (KANE). 



Loiseleuria procumbens, (L.) DESV. 



This plant has been recorded by KANE, I Grinnell Exp., p. 143, 

 from a place between Cape York and Cape Dudley Digges and later was 

 entered in NATHORST, Nachtr. Now as the plant is found north of 74 

 in Danish Greenland it would seem very probable that it also grew here, 

 but it is not mentioned in DURAND, PI. Kan., and KANE himself men- 

 lions it in such a way, as to make it very doubtful whether he, who 

 was not much of a botanist, had not perhaps quite another plant in 

 front of him. The lines in question run thus: ". . . . the wild honey- 

 suckle (Azalea procumbens} of our Pennsylvania woods I could stick 

 the entire plant in my button-hole". Now the name "honeysuckle" is 

 used not only for the species of Lonicera of which several grow in the 

 woods of Pennsylvania, but also for Azalea, but hardly 1 think for A. 

 (Loiseleuria) procumbens, a plant moreover which is not found further 

 south in the Eastern States than on the summits of the White Moun- 

 tains of New Hampshire and of course not as a common plant in woods. 

 Were I to venture a guess at the plant KANE has seen, I should 

 be most inclined to think of Rhododendron lapponicum, which has 

 since that time been found in the same neighbourhood; but at all events 

 the statement of KANE must be left entirely out of consideration. 



Rhododendron lapponicum, (L.) WAHLENB. 

 Azalea lapponica, LINNAEUS, Sp. Plant., 1753; Eh. lapponicum, 

 WAHLENBERG, Fl. Lapp. ; LANGE, Consp. Fl. Groenl. ; KRUUSE, List E. 



