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Honkenya peploides, (L.) KIIRH. 



Arenaria peploides, LINNAEUS, Sp. Plant., 1753; WETHERILL, List 

 1894; HOOKER, Fl. Bor. Amer.; MACOUN, PI. Pribilof; Honkenya pe- 

 ploides, EHRHART, Beitr. Naturk. 2; KRUUSE, List Angmags. ; LEDK- 

 BOUR, Fl. Ross.; Ammadenia peploides, RUPREGHT, Fl. Samojed. cisural.; 

 BRITTON & BROWN, 111. Fl.; Halianthus peploides, FRIES, Fl. Hall.; 

 LANGE, Consp. Fl. Groenl. ; KRUUSE, List E. Greenl.; KJELLMAN, in Vega- 

 exp. ; ANDERSSON & HESSELMAN, Spetsb. karlv.; KRUUSE, Jan May.; 

 HARTMAN, Skand. FL; GRONLUND, Isl. Fl. 



Fig. J. G. GMELIN, Fl. Sibir. IV, Tab. 64; Fl. Dan., Tab. 624. 



My specimens, which were collected on a sandy beach, where the 

 plant formed a fairly dense vegetation, approach the var. diffusa, 

 (HORNEM.) KRUUSE, in certain respects but differ from it. in others. 

 HORNEMANN, Dansk Oec. Plantel. I, Ed. 3, p. 501, describes his Arenaria 

 peploides diffusa as having the stems creeping and more spreading, 

 than in the main form; with thinner narrower leaves and longer inter- 

 nodes. My specimens, indeed, have thin, rather narrow leaves, but the 

 plants are somewhat tufted and the stems are short. 



Occurrence. S. Cape York (WETHERILL); Foulke Fjord, outside 

 Reindeer Point (1525). 



Distribution: East and West Greenland, Baffin Land, Arctic 

 America, Northern Atlantic and Pacific shores of America, Islands of 

 the Bering Sea, Kamshatka, Eastern and Arctic shores of Siberia. North- 

 ern and Western Europe, Novaja Semlja. Spitsbergen, Jan Mayen, Fae- 

 roes, Iceland. 



Alsine groenlandica,, (RETZ.) FENZL. 



MEEHAN (Gontr. Greenl., p. 209) records a species from M'Cormick 

 Bay in Inglefield Gulf, which he calls "Arenaria groenlandica, SPRENG." 

 TH. HOLM (Contr. Fl. Greenl.), indeed, who has corrected a great many 

 errors in MEEHAN'S paper, and especially in his identifications of the 

 species, has not mentioned anything about the plant here in question; 

 but this may be accounted for by the fact that he has not seen the 

 whole collection of MEEHAN, and so has been unable to control him in 

 every case. At all events, I do not feel justified in entering Alsine 

 groenlandica in the list of the North-Western Greenland flora without 

 better authority, as the species so far as known, is not at all high-arc- 

 tic. Its principal area of distribution is in the Eastern States of America, 

 from the higher parts of the Alleghanies in North Carolina and Virginia, 



