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Draba alpina L. 



Several varieties. McCormick Bay. 

 Draba hirta L. 



Varying remarkably in different localities. At Disco more tall 

 and slender than at Etah. In company with Papaver nudicaule, Dryas, 

 several Ranunculi and other flowers, with a luxuriant growth of 

 some Hypnum, it formed a striking feature in the flora of a " Nun- 

 atak," or snowless peak, arising out of the Verhoeff glacier. 

 Draba rupestris R. Br. 



Dr. Burk. 

 Cochlearia officinalis L. 



At Disco usually but about 3 inches high, but at Atanekerdluk, 

 in Waigat Strait, opposite Disco, double the size. A favorite food 

 of the Eskimos both North and South. 



Braya glabella Richards. 



McCormick Bay and Inglefield Gulf. 

 Lychnis apetala L. 



Remarkably variable. Sometimes with quite showy petals. 

 Flowers often singly on scapes, at others in 5-6 flowered capitate 

 heads, and again with flowers scattered along the stems. One spec- 

 imen at Inglefield Gulf close to the front edge of a receding glacier, 

 which spot had been covered by solid ice within a year or two. 

 Silene acaulis L. 



Everywhere in very wet or very dry places indiscriminately. 

 Cerastium alpinum L. 



At Disco spreading. At Upernavik sub-erect. Above Melville 

 Bay, at AVostenholm, and northwardly in small compact erect 

 masses. 

 Stellaria longipes Goldie, var. Edwardsii R. Br. 



On the Verhoeff Nunatak the plants were but two inches high. 

 Much larger elsewhere in Greenland. 

 Stellaria humifusa Rottbl. 



Seems scarce, only one small specimen from Disco. 

 Arenaria Groenlandica Spreng. 



McCormick Bay. 

 Arenaria peploides L. 



Disco. July 14th. One flower with a remarkably large colored 

 calyx ; the sepals being three quarters of an inch long. The cause 

 of this abnormal growth not determined. 



