370 Dr. Hooker's Account of a 



fin's Bay and in Melville Island this species is tolerably abun- 

 dant ; and so familiar was its appearance to the sailors of those 

 expeditions, that they gave it the very appropriate name of 

 Spider Ptatit. 



Neither did Dr. Richardson, nor Captain Parry in his 

 second voyage, meet with this species. In Greenland it 

 seems to have been found plentifully by Captain Sabine, 

 although no voyagers had previously brought it from that 

 country. 



Mr. Don is surely mistaken in referring to this plant the 

 5. aspera of Bieberstein's Flora Taur. Caucus, v. i. p. 314. 

 The S. flagellar is, according to Mr. Brown, is described by 

 Bieberstein in the third volume of that work, which I do not 

 myself at present possess. 



23. S. rivularis. 



Inhabits the alps, principally of the north of Europe. Scot- 

 land is perhaps its most southern latitude, and there it is very 

 rare. Found in Siberia, Lapland and Norway. In Labra- 

 dor (Pursh) ; Igloolik and adjacent islands (Captain Fai-ry); 

 also in Melville Island and Baffin's Bay, if Mr. Brown's <S'. hy- 

 perborea be the same plant, or a variety of it. 



24. S. ccespitosa. 



Var. surculis nuUis, foliis plerumque trifidis glanduloso-cili- 

 atis, caule uni-trifloro, calyce nigro-pubescente glandu- 

 loso. 



S. uniflora. Br. in Parry's \st Voy. App. p. cclxxiv. 



This is exactly the same variety as I have described in the 

 Botanical Appendix to Parry's second Voyage, as found at 

 Igloolik. I know of no figure which accords so well with this as 

 the Norwegian S. ccespitosa {Gunner s Flora Norveg. t. l.f. 4.). 



Whether 



