H. G. SIMMONS. [sKC. ARCT. EXP. FRAM 



Bray a purpurascens. (B. BR.| BUNGE. 



#. i>nri>iu-xci'nn. SIMM. INS, Fl. Kllesm. [71 alftina, HART, Bot. Br. 

 I'ul. F.xp.: IJ. <jlati<'U(i. MLKIIAN. Contr. (ireenl.]. 



As already shown liy UELERT (Not. Arct. PI.) the Braya of N. W. 

 (ireeuland is not B. a!/>in<i. STERNB. cV HOPPE, as little as is the Grinnell 

 Land plant, which HART (Bot. Br. Pol. Ivxp.) also has ranged under the 

 -aim- name. I have myself seen the specimens upon which HART hased 

 his determination, in the London collections. For my part I did not find 

 it. nor has any other collector seen it in Fonlke Fjord. 



Occurrence. S. Inglefield Gulf, M'Cormick Bay (MEEHAN). N. 

 Polaris Bay (COPPINGER). 



Arabis Hookeri, LANGE. 



A. llookrri, LANGE, Consp. Fl. Groenl.. 1880; SIMMONS, Prel. Re[. 

 t Bot. Arh.; Turrit/x ntollis, HOOKER, Fl. Bor. Amer. 1840; non Ara- 

 tiix inollis. STKVEN. 



Fig. Fl. Dan. T. 3296. 



Curiously enough, this plant, although occurring in abundance on 

 the rich clay plain at the old Eskimo settlement Etah, has not been 

 found, or at lea^l i> not mentioned, by any previous collector in these 

 regions. Neither do specimens from our area exist in the collections; 

 but still there might be a possibility that HART brought home frag- 

 ments of it. which LANGE may have seen, for the latter author states 

 (I. c.. p. 4SI that HART has found A. alpina, L.. at Foulke Fjord. HART 

 himself, however, mentions A. alpina only from the well-known local- 

 ities at Disi-o. ami Turritis mollis only from Proven (Bot. Br. Pol. Exp.. 

 p. -2\). At all events A. Hookeri is an addition to the flora of N. W. 

 Greenland. 



The species, however, does not appear here in its typical form, with 

 only one or a few (23) erect stems from the rosule. As the Foulke 

 ! jord plant differs also in some other respects, f think it best to describe 

 it a- a new variety : 



var. multicaulis. n. var. 



Perennis, mnlliceps. ramis floriferis nnmerosis (saepe 10 vel plur- 

 ihus) decumbentibus, brcvibus (10 cm.). Folia numerosa, dense rosulalo- 

 pro maxima parle per frnclilicationem persistentia. Racemi 

 pedicelli palnli, 0.5 cm. longi. Siliijuae ijuam in forma typica 

 -2 \ ,-m. lon^ae, leviler curvatae. Semina flavo-brunnescentia. 



