II. <;. SIMMONS. [SEC. ARCT.EXP.FRAM 



northwards lo Labrador. Further, it is found in a uiunher of places in 

 iivenland. on the east coast only at Ikerasarsuk in the far south, and 

 <m the west coa>t principally in the southern districts as far as to about 

 r.i- 1 L . N. (BaaU llevier. leg. VAHL). Further north it is recorded from 

 three Nations, Sukkerloppen (about b'5 1 _,. leg. KANE). Egedesminde (about 

 68 j, leg. SOHI:NSEN| and Lljiernivik (about 73, leg. KANE). 



The statements of DURANU about KANE'S plant are, as previously 

 pointed out by several authors, and as I myself have had an opport- 

 unity of showing, not to be trusted overmuch; and so we get. even 

 ivckoning from Egedesminde, an extension of about 9 northward of the 

 area of the species. In the Arctic Archipelago A. yroenlaudica is not 

 found: HART'S statement of it for Northern Ellesmereland is a mistake. 

 as I have ascertained at Kew (SIMMONS, Fl. Ellesm., p. 117), and the 

 -ame is almost certainly the case with GREELY'S plant under the same 

 name (Rep. II. p. 13). 



It is rather difficult to 'form any opinion, as to what MEEHAN'S plant 

 really is. perhaps Alsine verna, (L.\ WAHLENB., as this common species 

 is lacking in his list. 



Alsine verna. (L.) WAHLENB. 



A. verna. SIMMONS, Fl. Ellesm.; [A. verna. OSTENFELD, Fl. pi. Cape 

 York: A. rnht'lln. DURAND, Enum. pi. Smith S. ; NATHORST, N. W. 

 Gronl.; Arenaria verna, WETHERILL. List 1S94; A. rubella, HART, Bot. 

 Br. Pol. Exp.]. 



This is doubtless a common species, even though not collected in 

 all the places visited by the different expeditions or by all collector-. 

 Generally my specimens represent the variety rubella (WAHLENB.), as is 

 the case also in Ellesmereland. The Ai-i-uaria arctica in the list of 

 HAYES (Op. Pol. Sea), doubtless belongs here, as DURAND has instead of 

 it the name A. ruhcUa \ar. hirta, VAHL. 



Occurrence. S. Ivsugigsok (NATHORST): Wolstenholme Sound: 

 I'manak and Saunders Island (P>.\Li.K): Inglelield Gulf: Netlik (HAYES), 

 I an Glacier l\Vi i IIKIULT.I: Foulke Fjord (HART), at Reindeer Point |24.'l. 

 1495). 



Cerastiiiiii u/jj/nu/n, L. 



< '. al/iintim. SIMMONS. Fl. Kllesm.: OSTCMEI.D, Plantes N. E. Groul. 

 [C. alpinum, Si TIII:I;I.ANH. Yovage: DICKIE. Not. 11. pi., in INOLEFIKI.I. 

 Summer Search: Dri;.\\i. I'l. Kan. et Enum. jl. Smith S. (incl. var.l: 

 HART, Bot. l.r. Pol. I'lxp.: BESSELS, Amer. Xordpol-Fxp.: NATHORST, N. 



