368 Dr. Hooker's Account of a 



16. S. Edwardsii. 



S. nitida. Hooker in Scoreshy's E. C. of West Greenland. 



Found, previously to its being discovered in West Green- 

 land by Captain Scoresby, in some part of that country by 

 Giesecke and Wormskiold. Dr. Richardson detected it on the 

 , shores of the Arctic Sea ; and Captain Parry at Melville Island, 

 Igloolik, &c. 



9. Arenaria. 



17. Arenaria rubella. 



A. quadrivalvis. Br. 

 ' First found by Wahlenberg, near the summit of the alps of 

 Lyngen in the northern part of Nordland, at an elevation of 

 3000 Parisian feet above the level of the sea : aftervrards in 

 Melville Island. No other stations are at present known 

 for it. 



18. A. ciliata. 



Found on mountains in the south as well as the north of 

 Europe, as the Rhaetian and Leontine, Pyrenean, Swiss and 

 Carpathian alps. Likewise in Norway and Lapland; but 

 nowhere on the continent of America. 



19. A. peploides. 



Inhabits the sea-shore of the temperate and northern parts 

 of Europe : not extending probably further south than Bor- 

 deaux. Common in Germany, Britain, Iceland, Sweden, 

 Norway, Lapland, Siberia (Pallas) ; the coast of Labrador, 

 the sea-shore of America and Hudson's Bay {Richardson). 

 Our arctic voyagers, however, do not appear to have met with 

 it. Wahlenberg mentions that this plant ascends along the 

 sandy banks of the river Jana as far as Seida, above three miles 



(Swedish ones I presume) distant from the sea. 



Dr. Home- 



