37.8 Dr. Hooker's Account of a 



in America, Baffin's Bay (it does not appear in the Melville 

 Island Flora) ; Igloolik, &c. 



PLUMBJGINEM. 



23. Statice. 



41. S. Armeria. 



This is perhaps the most extensively diffused plant of any in 

 the collection. It grows both upon the sea-beach and on most 

 of the high mountains which intervene between the shores of 

 the Mediterranean and the utmost limit of arctic vegetation. 

 Nor is it wholly confined to alpine spots and the vicinity of 

 the sea ; I have gathered a variety of it in grassy pastures in 

 the environs of Paris : but though abundant in that particular 

 habitat, I believe its occurrence in such situations to be very 

 rare. In America we know, upon the authority of Pursh, that 

 it extends from Pennsylvania to Virginia, keeping along the 

 shores ; and Dr. Richardson found it on the sea-coast of Arc- 

 tic America. 



POLYGONEM. 



24. OxYRIA. 



42. O. reniformis. 



A well-known inhabitant of all the arctic regions, where it 

 grows plentifully upon a level with the sea. In the south of 

 Europe it affects only the most alpine situations, as the Pyre- 

 nees, in Auvergne, Switzerland, &c. 



In America, besides being a native of Labrador and the 

 most northern parts of that continent with the adjacent islands, 

 we are lately informed by Dr. Torry in his " Description of 

 some new or rare Plants from the Rocky Mountains," that it 

 grows upon James's Peak, one of the highest of that range, at 



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