Collection of Arctic Tlants. 377 



west coast of America, Baffin's Bay, the shores of Arctic 

 America, Melville Island, Barrow-river, and Greenland. 



FOLEMONIACEM. 



21. POLEMONIUM. 



39. P. caruleum. 

 Var. nana. 



This singular variety does not exceed three inches in height : 

 and the leaves rarely attain the length of two ; the pinnae are 

 placed very close ; but the corymb of flowers is most lovely, 

 bright purple, nearly as large in diameter as the whole plant 

 itself is tall, each blossom being three quarters of an inch in 

 breadth. It is common to various parts of Europe, the tem- 

 perate as well as the northern districts. It is found in Swit- 

 zerland, about Basle on the Rhine, and on the Jura : in Ger- 

 many and in England, where it does not affect very alpine 

 situations. In Asia it reaches as high north as Kamschatka ; 

 in Siberia it grows about Lake Baikal ; and Pennant states it 

 to be a native of Nootka Sound. What Wahlenberg says of 

 the Lapland state of this plant may be applied to the present 

 individuals, although it does not afford any reason to infer that 

 it is of the same diminutive size : " longe speciosior mihi visa 

 est quam in hortis nostris, coroUis margine saturatiore caeru- 

 leis superbiens." 



SCROPHULARINjE. 



22. Pedicularis. 



40. P. hirsttta. 



An arctic species, first discovered in Lapland by Linnaeus. 

 It exists also in Siberia, Spitzbergen, shores of the Arctic Sea, 



in 



